What is the e-GS Project ?

The “e-GS” Online Guidance Services is a two-year strategic partnership for school education to address some of the negative effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic on 14-18 years old secondary school students by creating an online guidance services platform with the cooperation of schools, university and guidance and research center from Turkey, Ireland, Belgium, Spain and Portugal.

The “e-GS” project was developed based on the idea that each student is unique. It aims to support the student in their journey to understanding themselves as a learner at a pace that is appropriate to their own needs. It is an internet-based guidance counselling service that aims to provide pedagogical support to the individual by enabling them to discover the elements that are often overlooked such as time management, goal setting, decision making and self-regulation; academic self-evaluation, motivation and anxiety; thinking and learning styles. The platform enables Guidance Cousellors to identify students that may be struggling in a specific area and help them address it.

What we want to achieve by implementing this project

The e-GS projects aims:

To provide students with a self-assessment opportunity that will enable them to better understand themselves in academic and personal /social development areas.
To ensure that students gain awareness of their own decision-making, goal setting, time management, self-regulation and positive thinking skills.
To enable students to optimize their academic motivation whilst simultaneously decreasing academic anxiety levels.
To enable students to recognise limiting or unhealthy thinking patterns that impact academic success help them change their study habits.
To ensure that students can easily access guidance counselling services, which are usually carried out face-to-face but the Covid 19 Pandemic illustrated how this is not always possible.
To enable individuals to be confident at following their own academic and personal / social paths.
To provide helpful information to psychologists / counsellors / mentors / other teachers who are responsible for the guidance services of the students so they can support the students with their needs.
To provide additional resources to school guidance counselling departments to enable them to identify and appropriately support students in reaching their potential with the digital guidance applications.
To provide students with the resources they need to be successful academically and also who they should reach out to for support should they need it.

About the scales

The “e-GS” project was developed based on the idea that each student is a different individual, and aims to individualize the teaching and plan the teaching in accordance with the readiness level of the student.

It is an internet-based Counseling service that aims to provide pedagogical support to the individual by discovering the elements that are overlooked in the online academic processes of the student.

You can find out more about how the scales were chosen and our plan on this PDF.