Calendar 2011

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May 2011

Participation in an external event

5-8 May 2011
8th EALTA (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment) Conference: "Ethics in Language Testing and Assessment"
Venue: Siena, Italy
Organisers: Università per Stranieri di Siena and Trinity College London
ECML contribution: documentation
Website: http://ealta2011siena.cils.unistrasi.it

Meeting of the expert advisory group on the selection of projects of the ECML’s medium-term programme of activities 2012-2015

9-10 May 2011
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Experts: programme consultants of the ECML’s medium-term programme of activities
2008-2011 and 2012-2015

Statutory meeting: 47th meeting of the Bureau of the Governing Board

12-13 May 2011

Visit to the ECML

16 May 2011
Presentation of the ECML and discussion on the topic "Wie kommt sprachliche Innovation an die Schule? mit Fokus auf internationale, nationale und regionale Initiativen"
Participants: Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture: Kurt Nekula, M.A.: Director General -Head of Department I - General Education; Quality Development and Quality Assurance; University College of Teacher Education; Rüdiger Teutsch, Head of Department I/5: Diversity and Language Policy, Special Needs Education and Inclusion, Gifted & Talented Education; Muriel Warga-Fallenböck, Head of the Language Policy Coordination Unit; Karin Markut, Project coordinator, Language Policy Coordination Unit; Ursula Newby, Manager of the Austrian Association of the ECML; Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director of the ECML.

Participation of ECML staff in an event

17 May 2011
Council of Europe training information meeting
Venue: Council of Europe, Strasbourg
ECML staff: Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director

Preparatory meeting of Workshop 5/2011

18 May 2011
“The European Language Portfolio (ELP) in whole-school use” (ELP-WSU)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Participants: project team

National support event

19 May 2011
Testing Day - “Guidelines for university language testing” (GULT) in cooperation with the Finnish National Board of Education and the University of Helsinki
Venue: University of Helsinki, Language Centre and National Board of Education, Helsinki, Finland
Experts: Johann Fischer, Germany; Stefania Dugovičová, Slovak Republic; Anu Virkkunen-Fullenwider, Finland
Participants: up to 120 teachers of the University of Helsinki and representatives of universities of applied sciences and other local universities as well as of vocational schools

Workshop 5/2011

19-20 May 2011
“The European Language Portfolio (ELP) in whole-school use” (ELP-WSU)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: David Little, Ireland
Co-animators: Francis Goullier, France; Rose Margarethe Oehler, Austria; Rosanna Margonis-Pasinetti, Switzerland
Working languages: English and French, with simultaneous interpretation
Participants’ profile

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Participation in an external event

20–21 May 2011
5th international conference of the Lithuanian Association of Language Teachers "Languages for Work and Life: Challenge for Teachers and Learners"
Venue: Vilnius University, Lithuania
Organiser: Lietuvos kalbų pedagogų asociacija (LKPA), Vilnius University, the Public Service Language Centre, Klaipeda University
ECML contribution: documentation
Website

Expert meeting

23-24 May 2011
“CARAP – a framework of reference for pluralistic approaches” (CARAP)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Michel Candelier, France
Participants: project team