Four working groups are active in FEDORA:
- Career Guidance & Counselling
- Educational Guidance & Counselling
- Inclusion/Equal Opportunities
- Psyche – Psychological Counselling in Higher Education
The Fedora Career Guidance & Counselling Group aims to help employers, students and their institutions to understand the labour market and the transitions between higher education and the world of work. Read more.
Coordinating the group:Paul Hacking, chairman
paul.hacking@ntu.ac.uk
Caroline Scheepmaker, Secretary/internal communications
c.scheepmaker@tudelft.nl
Nieke Campagne, EAIE relations
ntw.campagne@ics.leidenuniv.nl
Margaret Dane, EAIE relations
margaret.dane@agcas.org.uk
Paul Blackmore, Employer relations
p.blackmore@lancaster.ac.uk
Matteo Sgarzi, Funding Opportunities
matteo.sgarzi@almalaurea.it
Valerie Metcalfe
v.metcalfe@hull.ac.uk
Nannette Ripmeester
n.ripmeester@labourmobility.com
Jolanta Vaiciunaite
jolanta.vaiciunaite@karjera.vu.lt
The Educational Guidance and Counselling Group was established during the eighth FEDORA Congress in Odense, Denmark, in May 2003. The professionals most attracted to this working group are educational advisers and counsellors in the field of pre-entry guidance to university, transition from secondary to higher education, undergraduate to postgraduate study and transition for adult students as well as international student advisors. Read more.
Coordinating the group:Per Andersen
pca@adm.sdu.dk
Karin Svanfeldt
karin.svanfeldt@gu.se
The mission of the Inclusion/Equal Opportunities Working Group is to promote a better understanding of students and graduates with disabilities and chronic diseases, and their special needs. The group works towards their inclusion into all universities’ policies and rules, services and programmes – including student counselling and guidance systems. Slogan: emphasising their strengths, capacities and abilities and minimising their difficulties and barriers. Read more.
Coordinating the group:
Willy Aastrup, Denmark
wsea@dpu.dk
Maria Holler Hune
mhh@dpu.dk
PSYCHE (Psychological Counselling in Higher Education) is a network of professionals who are trying to enhance communication and cooperation between student counsellors and universities in Europe. Consisting mainly of psychological counsellors, the group stresses the importance of student counselling to be perceived as part of the university and part of the academic life itself.
PSYCHE members promote the idea that successful academic learning implies personal growth and development. Taking a holistic view of the student as a person, PSYCHE members underline the importance of the mutual respect and understanding between cultures. Read more.
Coordinating the group:
Ton Boekhorst (Coordinator)
a.t.m.boekhorst@rug.nl
Sue Steging
sl.steging@ulster.ac.uk
Diana Harila
aharila@psych.uoa.gr
Wilfried Schumann
wilfried.schumann@uni-oldenburg.de
Lieve Carette
Lieve.Carette@UGent.be