The goal of the EMPIRE project consists of initiating and testing “blended” mentoring (mix of onsite/ face-to-face and online events) schemes in order to give to career counselling and development services the opportunity to adopt mentoring in their ordinary practice.

The Career Counselors Interactive Training project aims to promote career guidance and awareness in Europe, to develop active European career counsellors and citizens who will be in a position to investigate the surrounding reality, to analyse social phenomena in depth and critically, as well as to contribute to the social reconstruction through efforts aiming at the democratisation and modernisation of institutions.

The project will collaborate with experts in the fields of psychology, pedagogy, career counselling and representatives from the labour market and the business world in order to contribute in offering substantial training to career counsellors and as an effect to provide substantial orientation to young people.

The aim of the project “Education & Technology” (E&T) is to develop, test, implement, evaluate and disseminate a curriculum at postgraduate level in the field of educational technology. In order to reach the goal of qualifying and graduating PhD students in the field of educational technology five European universities and two public research institutes are collaborating to build up a European network to award joint PhD-degrees. The IFS is responsible for the evaluation of the E&T project.