THIS EUROPEAN RESOURCE KIT is designed to help policy-makers and other stakeholders to review existing lifelong guidance provision within their country or region, and to identify issues requiring attention and gaps that need to be filled, drawing from practices in other European countries. Lifelong guidance covers all activities designed to help individuals, at any point in their lives, to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers. The Resource Kit is based on the four key themes identified in the 2004 and 2008 EU Resolutions:

• Career management skills.
• Access, including accreditation of prior experiential learning (APEL).
• Co-operation and co-ordination mechanisms in guidance policy and systems development.
• Quality assurance and evidence base for policy and systems development.