The following is an announcement from John McCarthy, Director, ICCDPP,
the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy
The ICCDPP Symposium is a unique invitational event that brings together small country teams to exchange on innovations and common challenges for the purpose of advancing career guidance policy and systems development, and policy implementation.
Members of these teams comprising leaders in guidance policy development, systems, research, and practices (n=approximately 3-6 team members per country) collaborate in working sessions to maximize exchange and learning. The Symposium is the only worldwide international forum for national policy developers and relevant stakeholders in career guidance to meet, to share ideas, and to learn from each other in focused discussion groups on how best to develop policies and systems for career guidance in the education and employment sectors.
An online country questionnaire on the themes of the Symposium was completed by country teams in advance of the Symposium. The results of this survey will be used to inform discussion at the Symposium, which is really a participant working event rather than listening to presentations.
The Symposium results in a Communique reflecting the collective conclusions and recommendations of participating countries and includes the opportunity to create specific country plans.
The Synthesis Papers of country responses for the three themes of the 10th International Symposium are now available for viewing and downloading.
The reports are based on 36 responses from 34 participating countries, involving a good mix of high, middle, and low income countries across the five continents. The themes concern how policies for career guidance support policies for:
The 36 country responses from the 34 participating countries may be found here.
More about ICCDPP:
The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy, an international non-profit organisation, collects, publishes and disseminates career guidance policy and systems information internationally to help countries and regions/states/provinces to make better policies and strategies for career guidance for their citizens.
The ICCDPP international symposia on career development and public policy provide an opportunity for self-reported themed country policy reviews for career guidance and provide some data for international trend comparison.