European Peer Review in Guidance and Counselling in Adult Vocational Education and Training (EuroPeerGuid)

European Peer Review Manual for Educational and Vocational Guidance for Adults

European Peer Review in Guidance and Counselling in Adult Vocational Education and Training (EuroPeerGuid)

SIAE participated in years 2011 and 2012 with partners from Portugal and Finland in the project EuroPeerGuid whose main purpose is to expand the peer review methodology to adult education guidance and counselling. In the project we:
- prepared European Peer Review Manual for Educational and Vocational Guidance for Adults;
- participated in international training for conducting peer reviews in Lisbon;
- prepared in our organization national training for peers and included guidance centres;
- tested the peer review methodology in guidance centres in Finland, Portugal and Slovenia;
- prepared the final conference of the project in Lisbon.

In Slovenia peer review methodology was tested in May 2012 in ISIO guidance centres Žalec, Ljubljana and Murska Sobota. Two international reviewers from Finland participated. The evaluation of the project showed that all involved in the project had a positive experience that has greatly contributed to the professional development and personal growth of the participants. The peer review methodology has been successfully transferred to the field of counselling in adult education, with some additional new steps in the method and some new tools to use. Recommendations based on experiences from different international peer reviews were taken into account in the revision of the Manual, that can be reached on the website of the project: http://europeerguid.eu/.