The thematic field of career guidance is drawing more and more attention in Albania. Different market actors are responding by strengthening or improving their roles in this new but complex ecosystem for the Albanian context.

RisiAlbania is supporting the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Tirana in their ambition to become a centre of expertise for career guidance services, by entering a long-term partnership with the University of Lausanne. After a successful exchange last November in Switzerland, the two institutions organized during April, a joint workshop in Albania.

This workshop focused on the improvement of the master program ‘Career Orientation’ of Faculty of Social Sciences, based on the standard offered by the University of Lausanne, which offers an exceptional tradition for career advisors’ preparation, but in the same time adapts to Albanian labour market dynamics. The exchanges and work carried out during this time, culminated with signing of the memorandum of understanding between the homologue institutions.

This memorandum paves the way to a long-term and encompassing cooperation in the field of career guidance and foresees dedicated research for development of tools and instruments that support the work of career counselling, strengthening of the relation of this program with labour market, mobility opportunities among the universities, etc. transforming Faculty of Social Sciences in a central and vanguard institution for developments in career guidance field in Albania.