● Enhancing enterprises and social partners’ involvement with the activities
regarding career guidance;
● International cooperation for improving the systems of career guidance;
● Introducing transnational projects aimed at training career counsellors as well as
at adding a European dimension to career guidance.In 2007 a national Europass centre as part of NRCVG is scheduled to open. Up to now,
NRCVG has performed the function of coordinating the application of Europass framework
(http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/ in Bulgaria.
Jointly with the other centres in the international network, NRCVG is working on the intro-
duction and updating of the information at the European internet portal PLOTEUS (http://eu-
ropa.eu.int/ploteus/portal/), which aims at stimulating mobility opportunities for young peo-
ple who want to study or work abroad. In its current form, PLOTEUS aims at unifying and
facilitating the access to information resources for education opportunities already existing.
The services for consulting and guiding users to information resources are expanded and
enriched regularly. In 2007 work on the second stage of PLOTUES starts, where the major
focus will be placed on the inclusion of national data bases.
On 1st January 2007, the Life-long Learning Program 2007-2013 starts, which will be ex-
ecuted by NHRC. The program’s framework unifies the programs of the European Com-
munities so far – Socrates and Leonardo da Vinci, as transformed into 4 separate programs
- Komenski, Erasmus, Leonardo da Vinci and Grundtvig.
With the view of meeting the growing need of realizing activities at European level aiming
at implementing political priorities, providing support between inter-sector activities, broadly
applying them and using the results achieved within the program’s framework, the four
separate programs complement each other by means of a horizontal program. In it activities
are encouraged which support transparency and acknowledgement of qualifications and
competencies, including those acquired both formally and informally, provide information
and consulting on the opportunities for realizing mobility for the purpose of studying, coop-
eration aiming at quality enhancement. This comprises precisely the following:
● Setting up networks of organizations contributing to the realization of mobility
and acknowledgement of the qualifications acquired, such as Euroguidance;
● Supporting trans-national services such as PLOTEUS;
● Activities on the Europass initiative;The horizontal program’s main objectives are:
● Encouraging quality and transparency of the EU countries’ educational
systems;