ECADOC started as a European Commission funded project under the Lifelong Learning Programme from October 2013 to November 2016. The project targeted to set up a European doctoral school specialising in Career Guidance and Counselling. It was a joint project of higher education institutions from 15 European countries, but already from the beginning the idea was to open the programme for doctoral researchers from all of Europe. The first ECADOC Summer School was organised in 2014 in Padova, Italy.
The original project was a joint venture of the European Society for Vocational Designing and Career Counseling (ESVDC) and the Network for Innovation in Career Guidance and Counselling in Europe (NICE). It was lead by ESVDC board member Laura Nota from the University of Padova and Johannes Katsarov, Coordinator of NICE, together with 5 colleagues: Valérie Cohen-Scali from CNAM-INETOP in Paris, Rachel Mulvey from the University of East London, Jérôme Rossier from the University of Lausanne, Rie Thomsen from the Aarhus University in Copenhagen, and Peter Weber from the Heidelberg University. In addition, Professor Hazel Reid and Professor Ronald Sultana acted as external evaluators for the summer school project.
The vision was to set up a sustainable European Doctoral Programme specialised on career guidance and counselling and offering highly promising graduates of European higher education institutions the opportunity of becoming the spearhead of career guidance and counselling related research and higher education in Europe. Closely connected with this vision was the ambition to create the structures and personal resources necessary for longitudinal, large-scale, international research in our field.
List of organisations collaborating with ECADOC
