The concepts of lifelong learning and guidance are closely interconnected with regard to a necessary reflection-guidance-action to support the different choices at several stages of the life course. Therefore, guidance must necessarily be conceived as an integrated process and developed both in the different contexts that each person goes through in the course of life (school, university and work) and with self-orientation practices capable of supporting a design attitude, of entrepreneurship of oneself in a life design process. In the essay, with regard to university guidance, the experience carried out at University of Trieste is presented through a tool-process, the Personal Development Plan (PDP), designed to support male and female students with respect to future professional prefigurations.
