EFPA Psy and Europe - EU funded projects

EU funded projects

ESPIL - European School Psychologists improve Lifelong Learning

EU project funded by the Education, Audiovisual and Culture Agency EACEA Lifelong Learning: Comenius, ICT and Languages, which addresses the role of psychologists in the European Educational System and the concept of lifelong learning.

It runs from November 2009 till October 2010.

ESPIL Invited Expert Conference, January 21-22, 2010 Brussels

Lifelong learning: What's in it for Psychologists in the Educational System?

More information on the NEPES website - Network of European Psychologists in the Education System

ESPIL Round table meeting, July 19-20, 2010, Dublin

Project summary

Project Summary

The 2004 Resolution of the EU Council/ Member States (MS) on ‘Strengthening policies, Systems and Practices in the field of guidance throughout life in Europe places LL guidance/counselling at a priority level as a key strategic component for implementing lifelong learning (LLL) strategies at regional/national levels.

Psychologists in the Educational System (PES) work across the entire life cycle of learning providing also guidance/counselling, education/training of teaching staff. Thus EFPA founded in 2007 the Network of European PES (N.E.P.E.S. with 20 national psychology associations in the EU/EFTA as members) in order to support LLL Policies across the EU by improved organization of PES.

EFPA has developed since 2001 the European Certificate of Psychology (Europsy) funded by the EU as an EU quality benchmark for the education of psychologists , which will now be implemented in several EU MS.

EFPA wishes with this project proposal to

-raise awareness within N.E.P.E.S. for the impact of developments in EU policies in education/training during the last decade
-encourage its member associations to study the implications of these policies on education/ training/service delivery of School Psychologists (SPs) including professional profiles, competences, qualifications within new paradigms of LLL
-develop jointly policy recommendations on the basis of the debate results concerning two important areas in LLL:
Improving the quality of SPs education/ training
Improving the quality of service delivery in lifelong guidance/ counselling, especially in primary schools
-include the viewpoints of stakeholders in education in this process.

This project proposal intends to prepare national associations of PES to play a proactive role in the implementation of EU recommendations in education/training at national level.

The project will result in an EFPA Policy Paper on Reforms in Education, Training and Service delivery of SPs including best practices in reforms.

The project includes a video film competition on the image of school psychologists. Students, parents, teachers and also school psychologists will be invited to send in a video clip on the work of school psychologists.