Students, parents, teachers, and school counselors now have at their disposal the interactive platform what’s next, dedicated to counseling and career guidance. Within it, they can discover ways to capitalize on the skills and interests of children and young people in the process of choosing the educational and professional path.

Platform is part of the pilot project with the same name, carried out in the school year 2024-2025, by the Save the Children Organization and the Bucharest Municipality Center for Resources and Educational Assistance (CMBRAE), with the support of Transilvania Bank.

The project brings the following benefits:

• Extending access to quality vocational counseling (over 2,000 students, respectively 200 participating parents);
• Training of specialists involved in guidance and counseling (so far, there are over 70);
• Development of modern means of communication;
• Formation of a learning framework about self-awareness, personal development, self-consciousness (strengths, skills, qualifications and qualities, limits, needs, aspirations and personal values, emotion management, communication, negotiation, personal branding, learning, teamwork, exploring learning opportunities and the market, decision making etc.
  
  

To measure the impact of the pilot project, during the period June 16 – July 1, 2025, Save the Children Organization and CMBRAE conducted an online consultation among the students participating in the program, and the results are as follows:

• The percentage of students optimistic about their careers increased from 45% to 54.3%.
• The notoriety of career orientation and counseling has increased from 67.5% to 88.7% among all students, with the greatest progress recorded among those in the 7th grade.
• Effective participation in Career Guidance and Counseling activities increased from 23.6% to 78.3%.
• The proportion of students who have heard about career guidance and counseling but did not participate in the program has drastically decreased (from 38.5% to 5.3%).
  
  

Access to the platform what’s next:

• It is done by creating a user account;
• In the case of students, the account is activated after the confirmation of the parents' consent.