GUIDE: Promoting Gender-Sensitive Career Guidance Across Europe

• Career guidance practitioners, VET teachers, trainers
• Counselling centres in schools, universities, and adult education
• Policymakers, NGOs, and public authorities All supported by tailored resources and multilingual material to enhance gender-aware counselling

Results That Matter

• Career-Guidance Best Practices & Interviews
• Discover 38 inspiring case studies and 26 interviews—from school-based initiatives to innovative community projects—that demonstrate real-world impact beyond theory.
• Digital Tool: Identifying Stereotypes
• A clever, user-friendly tool allowing practitioners to unearth hidden gender assumptions affecting users’ career paths—already piloted across multiple countries.

The Co-Creation Model

This interactive framework invites learners into the guidance process, ensuring that their voices shape solutions—making counselling more responsive and inclusive.

5 Module Online Training Programme in Gender Sensitive Career Guidance

Our vibrant e course—available in English, Greek, Danish, Dutch, German, Portuguese, Slovenian, and Spanish—is now in pilot across partners’ countries. It equips professionals with the skills to:

• Recognise gender biases
• Analyse real labour-market data
• Use interactive tools
• Facilitate co-creative learning
• Design inclusive career plans

Gender Sensitive Career Guidance Toolkit

Currently under external evaluation, this hands-on set of materials ensures career guidance is gender-conscious yet practical across diverse contexts.

Real World Impact

Since launching the e course pilot in collaboration with partners, we have seen more than enthusiasm—professionals across Greece, Denmark, Slovenia, Spain, Cyprus, the Netherlands and Portugal are already engaging deeply with the content and offering thoughtful feedback for refinement. Meanwhile, VET teachers and counsellors have begun weaving the digital stereotype-identification tool into their professional development programmes—using it live to uncover and challenge hidden gender biases affecting career choices.Our co creation model goes beyond theory too. It can be successfully embedded in schools and VET settings, actively fostering learner participation and strengthening the bond between students and practitioners. At the same time, National Continuing Professional Development centres are exploring how to adopt the Best Practices Guide, recognising its value in promoting more gender-aware guidance. On the toolkit front, external experts are currently reviewing the materials to ensure they’re practical and culturally relevant across diverse national landscapes. This ongoing evaluation is a key step in making sure the toolkit resonates meaningfully in real-world guidance contexts.

Why VET Professionals Will Appreciate GUIDE project

By engaging with GUIDE, practitioners gain fresh perspectives and practical tools to incorporate gender sensitivity into everyday guidance—moving beyond stereotypes to empower learners based on their true interests and skills. Frameworks like the stereotype-identification and decision-style tools bring theory to life in career sessions. The co‑creation model invites learners into the conversation, making guidance collaborative rather than prescriptive. And with all materials available in multiple partner languages, VET professionals can immediately integrate these resources into their everyday work with confidence and ease