"Ongoing changes in the world of work and the growing demand for career guidance are leading funders and stakeholders to rethink the ""traditional"" modes of delivery. While new technologies are often seen as an essential factor for optimizing and improving access to career guidance services, experiences show questionable efficiency of algorithmic and self-service approaches to e-guidance. At the same time, the lack of evidence-based research limits the development of innovative and effective blended counseling solutions (see ""Overview of Key Developments in the Use of ICT in Lifelong Guidance"", Vuorinen R., Kettunen J. , 2017). Moreover, the current models of services encounter limits in terms of personalization of service (structured diagnosis of the situation of the beneficiaries and definition of learning objectives of guidance), identification and recognition of informal learning, transversal skills and soft skills (particularly with regard to increasingly irregular career paths) and support for entrepreneurship (in its ""human capital"" dimension). The purpose of the project is to reinforce, in an innovative and practical way, the power to act of individuals by acting on two levers: autonomy and valorization. Autonomy of a person is linked to the work on career management skills, including within the context of a career goal that includes entrepreneurship. The valorization (open badge) is done by taking into account of the informal and transversal socio-emotional competences (soft skills). The project aims to create the tools and methods of a career guidance acting on these two levers by integrating digital into a systemic multimodal (blended) approach based on the principles of flipped learning. Methodologically, the project will meet this objective by producing the following intellectual outputs: O1 - State of the art: Comparative study of digital practices in career guidance and perception of users (typology and mapping of existing tools and resources, conditions for success) O2 - Methodology for co-constructing of a personalized guidance pathway based on career management skills (research report, set of indicators and method for situation analysis and co-definition of learning objectives of guidance) O3- Handbook to support the ""human capital"" dimension of entrepreneurship career goal (indicators of entrepreneurial skills, method of diagnosis and blending career guidance with technico-economic advising) O4 - Elaboration of a career guidance guide for the design of a ""multimodal (blended) learning path"" (pedagogical tools, technical and content specifications) O5 - Collection of pedagogical content, tools and techniques of multimodal professional guidance O6- Elaboration of a certification soft skills and informal learning (based on open badges approach) 07 - Implementation / test kit for the prototype version of the multimodal career guidance model O8 - Consolidated model of multimodal career guidance The consortium is composed of 5 partners: 2 national networks (National Federation of CIBC - France, ZKPRK - Association for Career Guidance and Career Development - SK), one European network (European Federation of Centres of Career Guidance and Bilan de Compétences) and 2 centers of bilan de compétences/skills audit (CIOFS - IT, LEA - BE). LEA is also a research laboratory in Applied Ergology and will provide a scientific perspective to the developments of outputs. Deliverables will be developed based on research and European good practices in the use of ICT in career guidance (O1), career management skills (O2), entrepreneurial skills (O3) and soft skills (O6), in order to design tools that are easily integrable into existing guidance practices. From these elements, a multimodal educational path will be developed (O4), implemented (O5) and tested (O7, O8) by 24 consultants with 330 beneficiaries in 4 countries. An impact study is planned during the test phase to validate the prototype model and provide the guidance community with evidence for further development of blended delivery of career guidance. The deliverables will be developed with the aim of a quick and easy integrability by the consultants and the centers (instructions for use, tutorials ...). Resources will be freely available on the open licensed project website as specified. Through dissemination activities, these tools will be presented to stakeholders in partner countries and in Europe with the desired effect of taking into account the current issues of career guidance and further stimulate innovative practices."

"From a methodological point of view, the „Bilan de Competence (BdC)” is not a clear definable individual process, but it is rather a multimodal approach, in which the personal conversation between the BdC-counsellor and the client is a key element in the phases of the BdC process. In addition a reference to the labour market must always be made. Furthermore psychological tests are part of the standard methods. The BdC is carried out in accredited institutions. The method of the BdC according to the French model is a procedure of the documentation and assessment of competences and is always oriented towards the individual person. So it is on the one site a step towards the international trend of the recognition of informally acquired competences, and on the other site an appropriate instrument for strengthening the responsibility of the participants. A variety of facilities in Europe operate according to the French model of the BdC. These institutions have established an European umbrella organisation - Fédération Européenne des Centres de Bilan et d'Orientation Professionnelle (FECBOP) – and defined an European Quality of the BdC according to the French model with 11 quality criteria. The project partners involved work according to the European quality criteria respectively are certified according to these.Aim of this project was the development, testing and implementation of an Europe-wide uniform education of competence balance Counsellors according the French model of the ""Bilan de Compétence"". Thereby we achieved, that nearly an European-wide uniform quality according to the French model of the BdC is aimed. The following organisations participated at the project: P0 – Bildungsinstitut PSCHERER gGmbH (BIP)P1 – Centre Interinstitutionnel de Bilan de Compétences Bourgogne Sud (CIBC)P2 – Laboratoire d’Ergologie appliquée (LEA)P3 – Universita degli Studi Roma TreP4 – Narodni vzdelavaci fond, o.p.s. (NVF)P5 – K.A.B.A. SlovenskoP6 – Fédération Européenne des Centres de Bilan et d'Orientation Professionnelle (FECBOP)For target-achievement the following work packages were implemented:WP 0: Project management WP 1: Adaptation of the European Quality criteria FECBOP WP 2: Development of an European education of competence counsellors including a curriculum and the corresponding teaching and learning material WP 3: Testing 1 – Qualification of multipliers (""train the trainer"") based on the developed curriculum WP 4: Adaptation and testing 2 – education of competence counsellors by the multipliers WP 5: Evaluation and classification according the EQF WP 6: Implementation and dissemination of the education by the networks of the partners and the FECBOP Achieved results and impact: -Available are revised European Quality criteria for implementation of the BdC. These were presented and accepted at the general assembly of the FECBOP. Thus they form the working basis for the FECBOP. The document is available in English, French and German. -Available is a curriculum for the education of certified competence counsellors with corresponding teaching and learning material in English, French and German. The documents are published on www.fecbop.eu and also on www.compcert.eu and therefore accessible to everyone. -In the frame of Testing 1, there have been educated 10 multipliers/ teachers for implementation of future educations. They are published on the website of the FECBOP as contact persons. -In the frame of Testing 2, there have been educated 29 competence counsellors in the Czech Republic, in Slovakia and Germany. In the practical part they carried out 87 BdCs. -Available is a study for the classification of the curriculum into the EQF. It is published in English, French and German. -Especially the FECBOP (as well as all project partners) will further promote the use of the education, and push on the recognition procedure by the FECBOP, in order to upgrade the quality assurance while carrying out the BdCs - Throughout the project, a continuous public relations work was carried out in print media, online portals and social networks."