CDOs are by nowadays operational in all Member States as well as in the Candidate Countries. Hundreds of CDOs are already working on a regional or national basis throughout Europe By their nature CDOs represent a "natural mediator" between the University and Enterprise sectors with the aim of increasing the professional insertion of graduates. Usually, the CDOs are managed by students and have already a range of typical activities like maintaining job databases and organizing periodic job fairs, to name only a few. CDOs are a very successful scheme that is providing accompaniment to the students in their transition from the class-room to the enterprise. Usually a CDO database includes between 5000-50000 records related to students looking for a job and thousands of recruiting enterprises, with job profiles, requirements etc. However, the success and achievements of the CDOs is still not fully exploited by the Universities, especially related to their databases. This WP aims to create an European network of CDOs in order to integrate the European dimension in this activity, especially to achieve an integrated European job database, but also to create a pan European forum for debates on the U-E cooperation best practice, problems, new initiatives etc. The usefulness and impact of such database on the higher education will be certainly extremely high. It is anticipated that a network of CDOs will strongly increase the U-E communication and cooperation towards an enhanced employability. The database will allow having an European barometer of the employment demand, profiles, knowledge needs in Europe, information that is crucial for the Universities that urgently need to adapt their studies and curricula to the enterprises needs.

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