CONNECT! project brings together the research-based knowledge from the fields of career counselling on the one hand and human resource development on the other hand. Based on the desk and qualitative research, the project develops study courses based on well-founded, innovative and practice-enriched knowledge from the two areas “career guidance and counselling” and “human resource and development”. 

The project coordinator is University of Applied Labour Studies from Germany (Hochschule der Bundesagentur für Arbeit) and project partners are Belgrade Open School, Universita degli Studi di Padova (Italy), Danube University Krems (Austria), Saxion University of Applied Sciences (Netherlands), ISON PSYCHOMETRICA (Greece) and Kaunas University of Technology (Lithuania).

Career Guidance and Counselling (CGC) is an important tool throughout working life to help citizens, businesses and the economy to adjust to the rapid change in the labour market, the mobility of work and people and the dynamic developments within enterprises. CGC should be accessible not only in public services but also in companies. Professionals and students as (future) HR experts and practitioners, counsellors and coaches in public or private services play a key role in the implementation of company-based career work. However, a major problem is that CGC study programs do not integrate systematically knowledge and experience from enterprises’ and organisational perspective.

To address this issue, through the project, the following outputs will be produced:

• Review of promising practice in the area of company-based career work and actual needs based on literature, media and resources
• Guidelines for innovative practice
• Development of a systematic curriculum for the Higher Education course on the topic “Career guidance and coaching for employees”
• Course for HR specialists, trainers, counsellors and coaches
• Catalogue of resources and online learning environment
• Web Portal for lecturers, students, career counsellors and coaches
• Piloting, evaluation and recommendations for long-term implementation of Higher Education Course

Project activities are carried out in the period from 1st of September 2019 to 31st of August 2022, and the project is supported through the program Erasmus+.

More information is available on the project website: https://connect-erasmus.eu/.