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eGOS (E-GOvernance and e-guidance Services”) means distance vocational and educational guidance. It aims to deliver integrated and customized services to people that, for different reasons, have difficult access -or no access at all- to traditional help-desks (because they live in areas with few or no traditional guidance services; are workers and/or parents with little flexibility in time; suffer reduced mobility due to health or physical problems; are seniors or social challenged citizens who prefer the intermediation of ICT-based instruments than a direct relationship with a practitioner...).
A multi-channel open source platform (WISP: Web-based Integrated Services Platform) will enable skilled e-guidance practitioners to deliver information, advice and help services by using different ICT-based tools such as video-conferencing, e-mail, chat-rooms, forums, and so on. The eGos services will be available to final beneficiaries online on their home PC, from kiosks placed in their living areas and from EG-stations within the tester partners’ or any associated organisation. They will integrate but won't substitute already existing traditional guidance services: users who won’t use distance activities will receive help and advice in a traditional mode, as always.
E-guidance will be delivered on a 4-levels scheme. The first one (available without registration and practitioner's support) will provide basic information. Within the second, third and fourth level, trained e-practitioners will provide customized advice and counselling, supporting the users' decision-making process and their potential reassessment of educational/vocational skills, also in terms of cross border mobility. Second, third and fourth level service will require registration and scheduled sessions with a practitioner. The proper guidance delivering mode will be choosen by consent between user and practitioner.
Such an approach is going to have a huge impact on the citizens' attitudes (less mobility) and welfare, also bypassing encumbering architectural features and preserving the environment.
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Welcome to the eGOS
The project will aim at improving employability and guidance practitioners’ capacity building through the activities of a prototype service that will enable the delivery of educational and vocational e-guidance services, also to cross-border mobility. This eGOS system will enable decision makers in charge with educational, training and employment policies to reach also those citizens that, for different reasons, wouldn’t be able to take benefit from traditional guidance services.
Seeking job, or training?
eGOS (E-GOvernance and e-guidance Services”) means distance vocational and educational guidance.
Are you a private/public body?
[EN] By monitoring the development of the eGos project, private and public bodies will observe, from a close point of view, the evolution of guidance practices. Subscribing the eGos newsletter, they are going to receive periodically information about works in progress and useful documentation (see for example the "Ethical guidelines for e-guidance delivery and usage" by Mr. Raimo Vuorinen, Institute for Educational Researc, University of Jyväskylä, and Mr. James P.
Are you a guidance practitioner?
Nowadays, vocational and educational guidance requires a wider use of ICT technologies, either to manage information and to deliver services to beneficiaries. More and more practitioners look at new technologies as a valid support to their day-by-day practice. New modes to deliver vocational/educational services are to be set up, either, with particular attention to disadvantaged users because of geographic, physical, personal and/or professional issues. We need to manage ‘traditional’ activities through up-to-date tools, offering a range of new services.
