Our goal is to increase the competency of career counselors in creative and innovative work methods, which in turn will lead to new offerings for the job seekers we assist. Furthermore, it is important for us to expand and further develop a European network, and to stimulate increased international collaboration.
Through collaboration with businesses in previous partnership projects, we have gained a small glimpse into innovative work methods used by other companies, which we wish to learn from. Specifically, we want to develop the way we work with creative and artistic expressions in courses and career learning activities, and we are aware of some enterprise that have been working on this for a while. In 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a report titled "What is the evidence on the role of the arts in improving health and well-being?" as part of its Health Evidence Network Synthesis Reports (No. 67). Over a period of 19 years, over 900 publications were identified, with analyses from 3000 studies and over 700 individual studies, and the findings demonstrated that the use of art contributes to improving mental and physical health. Additionally, it was concluded that both art institutions and various institutions that work with people and their mental and physical health should