JU researcher Sweden's representative in new research network
The European Commission is funding a new international network program for research in the field of career guidance. Ingela Bergmo-Prvulovic, Associate Professor at the School of Education and Communication (HLK) at Jönköping University (JU), is Sweden's representative in the network and is also part of its steering committee.
Ingela Bergmo-Prvulovic
Some 30 countries and an even greater number of higher education institutions are participating in the network program called Critical perspectives on career and career guidance (COCAG). Leading senior researchers in the field of career guidance, together with junior researchers and doctoral students, will meet with policy makers, employers, industry representatives and practitioners to develop the field.
COCAG will highlight the importance of better understanding the complexities that currently frame career counselling theory, practice and policy, and how the field of knowledge can evolve to address these complexities.
Ingela Bergmo-Prvulovic has been carrying out research on career guidance throughout her research career and is now looking forward to four years of international exchange in the field.
“The network program enables us to explore in a more comprehensive way the challenges that the transformation of working life and societal developments pose to people's career paths and opportunities they have for a sustainable working life. Likewise, we can explore how career guidance practices can be developed to address contemporary challenges in more effective ways,” she says.
The network program's research is expected to generate new, valuable research insightsto policy makers in education, labor and working life.
“Personally, I also see it as particularly urgent to focus more clearly on the challenges and needs of adults in career-related changes and transitions,” says Ingela Bergmo-Prvulovic.
The funding for COCAG of just over SEK 6 million will enable the coordination of national research at a European level during the four-year duration of the program, starting in October 2024.
