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Vocational guidance and scholarships Vocational guidance at the ESS is intended especially for unemployed persons who need help in continuing their career. Within this activity, we provide the users with all the information they need in order to plan their occupational path. We offer them support and help in setting and achieving goals either in case of employment, education, training or acquiring skills, with which individuals can ease their transition from unemployment to employment, to education and training or from education to the labour market. Work with the unemployed is individual and group, depending on the goals one wishes to achieve. Part of vocational guidance is intended for everyone who wishes for help in planning employment, training and education, also school youth and the employed. It is carried out at the Centres for Vocational Information and Guidance Counselling Centre (in continuation VICC), at information points and information corners.Image 15: Vocational guidance
The national or Zois scholarship can be won by apprentices, secondary school pupils and post-secondary students who fulfil conditions determined by the Act and Rules on Scholarship. The basic aim of national scholarships is to enable education to young people coming from poorer social economic background, and the aim of the Zois scholarship is to encourage the development of the exceptionally talented and to raise the educational level of the most capable part of the young. At the end of December 2006, 37,751 school pupils and students and apprentices were entitled to the national scholarship, and 12,824 pupils and students were entitled to Zois scholarship. The number of national scholarships began to increase at the beginning of the 1990s, simultaneously with the decline of company scholarships, and reached its peak in mid 1990s. Afterwards is slowly started to decline, also due to the smaller generations of young persons. Image 16: Scholarships in school years 1990/91 to 2006/2007
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