The network EUROGUIDANCE-labour is composed of two resource centres :
The CARIF OREF network (RCO) & CARIF OREF Espace Compétences in PACA Region provide information to practitioners on the continuing vocational training opportunities in France and in Europe, the legal framework of continuous education in France and on the « validation des acquis de l’expérience » system ( VKE, validation of knowledge acquired through experience) and advise those practitioners on in implementation of European mobility programmes.
Centre INFFO is a non-profit- organisation, under the aegis of the Ministry of Employment, Labour and social Cohesion. A resource centre for processing and disseminating information in France. Its role is to devise and set up development programmes for information, documentation and studies in the field of continuing vocational training. Centre INFFO maintains special relationships with the State, employers and trade union organisations, and training professionals. It lies at the centre of France’s information networks on continuing vocational education and training, involving key players and decision-markers and is member of a number of European networks.
Among a wide range of activities, Centre-INFFO :
· co-ordinates information and documentation on continuing vocational education and training,
· edits and publishes databases on information documents, regional policies, professional branches agreements
· provides information sheets on the vocational training systems of the different EU countries
· edits a poster on the European programmes focussing on mobility issues
