The Education Policy Division of the Council of Europe will organise a conference on 16-17 May 2018, in Strasbourg, France, to launch the CEFR Companion Volume with New Descriptors (CEFR/CV). 

The Launching Conference “Building inclusive societies through enriching plurilingual and pluricultural education” is part of a series of activities to promote and plurilingual and pluricultural education and contribute improving learning and teaching languages with a special focus on The CEFR Companion Volume, as a complement to the existing Common European Framework of Reference for Languages: Learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR).

The Conference will be accompanied by parallel workshops where language education professionals and stakeholders will discuss implications, opportunities and challenges for language learning, teaching and assessment; develop recommendations and a road map for implementation; initiate constructive dialog.

For further information and to register your application please visit the conference website by 26 March 2018.

• Concept note and programme