Sharing Irish Best Practice with Europe and Learning from European Best Practice
Study Visits for Guidance Practitioners Guidance practitioners in Europe can experience the European Dimension of guidance directly through the Academia Exchange of Guidance Practitioners project. NCGE has been co-ordinating the sending of Irish practitioners and the hosting of incoming practitioners to learn and share best practice in guidance for ten years. Collaboration with European Projects NCGE has acted as lead partner in a number of European Union funded projects and as such provided the Irish input and experience into the broader project. Joint Actions Project and the National Guidance Forum Learning from Best Practice and Adult Guidance  EU Projects: Non-Formal Sector European Dimension in the Training of Guidance Counsellors
	NCGE News provides a channel for the exchange of best practice in guidance. The newsletter is distributed across the euro|guidance network in EU, EEA and pre-accession countries to keep them abreast of developments in the Irish guidance system. The European section aims to highlight best practice in Europe, developments at European level and the European Dimension of Guidance.

The following publications are available from the CEDEFOP European Training Village Website:

Improving lifelong guidance policies and systems
Using common European reference tools, 2005, Charge: free of charge

Guidance policies in the knowledge society
Trends, challenges and responses across Europe, A Cedefop synthesis report
2004, Charge: free of charge

The following Publications are available from the OECD: