This project is a strategic partnership with the aim of improving career guidance counseling through the development of a new platform dedicated to practitioner skill building. The delivery of a new set of tools, an online quality assurance framework, training and the transfer of the existing tools of eGuide User Assessment platform to the local markets of Ireland, Greece, Romania, Bulgaria, Croatia, the project will lead indirectly to beneficial changes in employability, long term work placement and targeted vocational training. Those who provide the service, such as career guidance advisors, school counselors, unemployment agency officers, etc., should be specifically and properly trained. Career guidance counseling should apply specific methods when dealing with the sensitive demographic groups, lacking experience and know-how. ctivities will be implemented by a partnership consisting of five organisations with long-standing expertise and experience in career guidance counseling and education and the required market access. Led by Ballymun Job Centre (Ireland), the partnership includes partners EU-ROM Training & Consultancy Ltd (Romania), SUPERA Business Management Ltd. (Croatia), Core Training S.A. (Greece) and BGlex Consulting Ltd. (Bulgaria).Education and vocational guidance is an important element of lifelong learning, directly associated with employability. Equally and adequately trained career guidance practitioners are a prerequisite for long-term results on employment and the identification of suitable vocational training for all people in all EU member states. This project asserts that raising the overall quality of career guidance is imperative, particularly for the long-term prospects of unemployed people. This project is based on innovative results from previous eGuide projects. Based on a careful analysis of the needs of career guidance practitioners in the field, the partnership will engage in the development and of new and innovative training tools, including interactive, online courses for consulting, and two certification tests that would guarantee the career counselor’s ability to advise any individual. In addition, the partnership will educate master trainers and train local career guidance practitioners in the application of these tools.Information about the outcome of the project and the toolset available to career guidance advisors will be widely disseminated in several local training and multiplier event and one global dissemination event.This project is expected to produce the following results: • Develop transversal skills for career guidance practitioners, by the provision of training, use of a dedicated online course and manuals offered through the eGuide Practitioner platform, available for all EU member states. • Introduce eGuide User Assessment platform and tools to an additional three EU member states, Romania, Bulgaria and Croatia, along with the respective training of local practitioners, required for the tools to take effect. • Update and refresh guidance practitioners in Ireland and Greece who are already using a version of eGuide in their practice and provide support to new practitioners in using the materials and tools. • Expand the existing multi-language materials and tools by three more languages (Romanian, Bulgarian and Croatian). • Develop an online course dedicated for Consulting Principles and methodology. • Create an online Quality Assurance Framework for career guidance practitioners (QAF) making it more accessible and easy to assimilate. • Create for the first time a standardized Career Guidance Principles Aptitude Test (CGP/AT) for certifying the practitioner’s ability for counseling youth, and a Quality Assurance Framework Aptitude Test (QAF/AT) for identifying knowledge of QAF principles. • Promote both eGuide platforms to national and European, educational systems and employment services, trying to get all the above material and tools incorporated within the official VET systems available for all practitioners to use across Europe. • Upgrade the existing eGuide User Assessment platform by identifying and collecting tools and resources from other previous and on-going projects that have a bearing on career guidance or that have produced innovative tools to one available site. Existing tools’ software is to be upgraded too, since the programming code it was initially written in has been rendered obsolete. The above is expected to result in immediate and long-term change towards improving the quality of skills of practitioners and the career guidance services provided to individuals. It is also expected that the tools developed in this project will be integrated in the VET systems of the project countries of this proposal and eventually lead to official policy initiatives.