Green guidance supports people to make their education, training and employment choices with an awareness of the climate crisis. Green guidance helps people understand the environmental impacts of their working lives and develop more positive and sustainable ways forward.
We would like to invite students to the Working with Emotions in Climate Change Education summer school, which takes place from 3 to 7 September 2025 in Brno (Czech Republic). The summer school is designed for those interested in learning about climate change and working with the emotions associated with this topic. The summer school is free of charge. The summer school includes…
The NICE Foundation in collaboration with the Exploring Green Guidance consortium have the pleasure to invite you to the webinar EXPLORING GREEN GUIDENCE-SUSTAINABILITY AS PARADIGM CHANGE Tuesday 21 January 2025 – 15:30 – 16:30 UTC Tomáš Šprlák, career counsellor, Association for Career Guidance and Career Development, Slovakia Mariana Lucas Casanova, Post-doctoral researcher and Invited Adjunct Professor: Centre for Research and…
Mariana Lucas Casanova, member of the team of the Exploring Green Guidance project has recently presented the project and some of its results at the IAEVG International Conference 2024 in Jyväskylä, Finland. This presentation built on the project survey’s descriptive analysis (Hooley et al., 2024) to further explore European practitioners’ perceptions towards climate change and Green Guidance and examine the…
Climate change is already impacting careers, and this influence is expected to grow in the future. The labuor market is undergoing a ‘greening’ transformation, with ‘green jobs,’ ‘green education,’ and ‘green skills and competencies’ becoming increasingly important. Significant efforts are also being made within the education system to integrate sustainability, but also to address the emotional aspects of climate change…
Members of our team participated on the NICEC Conference 2024 – “Career and Sustainability: Skills, wellbeing and the environment” in Birmingham. The conference focused on career and sustainability, defined broadly, as ‘the integration of social equity, economic vitality and environmental health and well-being in order to create thriving healthy, diverse and resilient communities now and in the future’. We presented…
Our partnership published a literature review which examines the intersection between career, career guidance, sustainability, green issues and environmental concerns. The paper is part of the Exploring Green Guidance project, a collaboration among several European partners, focusing on career guidance in the context of environmental sustainability. The work on this paper was lead by Tristram Hooley and Ingrid Bardsdatter Bakke…
Green guidance has become a buzzword in career guidance in recent years. Everyone is talking about it, yet there is not a common understanding of what exactly green guidance means. That was why in 2023 organisations from 5 countries (Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Norway, and Portugal) started an Erasmus+ project focused on green guidance. In mid-2024, the project achieved a major…
We participated and contributed to the organisation of the first meeting of french working group around green and sustainable guidance that was held in Marseille 6/7 June : “Green Guidance? Towards sustainable professional lives?“. The french informal working group “Green Guidance – towards sustainable professional lives” was constituted in september 2023 and collaborated closely with our project. The group explores…
The initiative to operationalize green or sustainable approaches in careers services is entering a new phase. Participative workshops with experts and practitioners are being held in several European countries around questions such as In this process a methodology of “Learning Labs / Innovation factories” is used. Diverse group composed of practitioners and experts from different sectors (different VET sectors, working…
We published the first output of our work: a policy review that explores contemporary environmental and sustainability policies to provide an evidence base for thinking about the role that (green) career guidance can play. It is based on a rapid evidence review of international policy documents, relevant academic literature and case study reviews in six European countries (Czechia, France, Norway,…