9th International Symposium on career development and public policy
JULY 2019 – CANADA
The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICCDPP) and Skills Norway held the 9th International Symposium on career development and public policy in June 2019. This year’s theme was ‘Leading career development services into an uncertain future: Ensuring access, integration and innovation’.
The Symposium brought together policy makers, career development professional, researchers and employer and workplace representatives to discuss the way forwards for global career development. It focused on exploring how the world in which individuals are pursuing their careers is changing and how people across the world are able to get support to develop their careers. It also looked at how governments organise career development support and connect them to wider policy aims and to other support services. Finally, it explored the future of career development and ask how the field can be more innovative.
All attending countries were asked to produce a country paper setting out the key issues for their countries in relation to the key themes of the conference. Team Canada wrote a country paper highlighting our country’s specific features and innovative practices in the field of career development.
During the Symposium representatives from 33 countries and from UNESCO, the OECD, European Commission, European Training Foundation and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, dialogued and identified a range of effective policies and practices. These discussions are summarised in the ICCDPP 2019 Communiqué.
For more information, please visit the ICCDPP Symposium Website.