Experts: Bärbel Kühn, Germany; Maria Luisa Perez Cavana, United Kingdom
Local organiser: Nataša Perić, Advisor in the Bureau for Education Services of Montenegro
Working language: English
Website: eELP

Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Bärbel Kühn, Germany
Working languages: English and German
Website: eELP

Experts: Bärbel Kühn, Germany; Michael Langner, Switzerland
Local organiser: Lusine Fljyan, Yerevan Brusov State University of Languages and Social Sciences
Working language: English
Website: www.ecml.at/TrainingConsultancy/Europeanlanguagee-portfolio-Supportinglocalnetworks/tabid/1689/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

Local organiser : Navickiene Virginija
Experts: Bärbel Kühn, Jürgen Friedrich
Working language : English
Participants: representatives from national-level institutions

Experts: Michael Langner, Switzerland/Luxembourg; Margarete Nezbeda, Austria
Local organisers: Kamila Sladkovská, National Institute for Education, Czech Republic and Regional Centre of Education and Language School Providing State Language Exams, Pilsen in cooperation with Goethe-Institut Prague, Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
Participants: stakeholders in the area of language education in the Czech Republic; teachers and teacher trainers, representatives from universities, policy makers, decision makers, experts

Information from the local organiser: Thanks to the active participation of the Czech expert Radka Perclová, the Czech Republic took part in the first European activities leading to the development of the European Language Portfolio (ELP). The Czech teachers have had the possibility to use the Czech national version of the European Language Portfolio in their lessons already since 2001. The Czech school reform, which is promoting besides other things principles like key competences, lifelong and autonomous learning, personal development, was fully launched in 2005. The ELP seemed to be an ideal tool for the implementation of these principles.
Despite seemingly ideal conditions for the implementation of the ELP in the Czech context, the existing surveys have shown that the ELP is being used by a small number of schools. The European Language Portfolio has got a new chance in the Czech Republic by creating a website application www.evropskejazykoveportfolio.cz, which has been available for free to all users since 2011.
The final conference of the project the European Language Portfolio in the Practice (CZ.1.07/1.1. 00/08.0014), which was held in cooperation with the ECML, took place in October 2012 at the Goethe Institute in Prague. The professor Michael Langner who took a part in this conference on behalf of the ECML offered the basic definition of the European Language Portfolio, indicated the possible problems we could encounter during the implementation of the ELP at schools, defined the difference between a paper and electronic version of the ELP and at the same time named the concrete advantages and disadvantages of the electronic version of the ELP. The aim of the conference was to make all stakeholders in the Czech language education system familiar not only with the new website application of the European Language Portfolio and with the publication of the same name, but with the actual Czech and foreign experience of the language portfolios as well. Last but not least the aim was to show the possibilities of the ELP for modern language teaching and learning.

Experts: Michael Langner, Switzerland/Luxembourg
Local organisers: Kamila Sladkovská, National Institute for Education, Czech Republic
Participants: teachers and teacher trainers
Information from the ECML experts: The event has been a sort of seminar for disseminators of the ELP. The base was a lot of exchange of examples of good practice for the implementation of the Czech electronic version of the ELP.
My major task has been to provide the participants with experiences of the implementation process in Switzerland on the one hand but on the other to open the view to problems we have with the real situation of traditional teaching and the use of an innovative teaching tool as is the ELP. This careful change of school structures and teaching methods is necessary if we want really a successful implementation and use of the ELP.
For these reasons it is important to inform political decision-makers, education authorities but also teachers and teacher trainers about the necessity of change. The dissemination of the ELP is in the same time a top-down process (political decisions are necessary) but must be also a bottom-up process (good practice of colleagues will motivate new teachers).

Information from the local organiser: In 2011 the website application of the Czech European Language Portfolio (ELP) - www.evropskejazykoveportfolio.cz was presented for the first time. It is an innovative tool which offers the environment in a well-structured and electronic form where users can record information about their learning of foreign languages and about experience with foreign languages.
If the key competences are the most crucial term and aim of the current education, the ELP represents an ideal tool which enables their implementation and development. Not only the active participation of pupils at lessons and learning process by using the ELP are supported but also pupils learn to evaluate their own results, they become aware of presence and role of foreign languages and cultures. Pupils can think about strategies how to learn and by creating their own self-reflection document – the Language Passport – in which they gather all necessary information about themselves and foreign languages, they are slowly approaching the awareness of their professional career.
Not only the above mentioned website application was built as a part of the project the European Language Portfolio in the Practice (CZ.1.07/1.1. 00/08.0014), but also the lecturers are trained, who are the key disseminators of the ideas of the ELP and of the website application in in-service training courses for teachers. The summer meeting of the teacher-trainers of the ELP in the practice was organized in August 2012 in cooperation with the ECML. The aim of the meeting was to support teacher-trainers of the ELP courses and to improve the current conception of the courses. The professor Michael Langner took an active part in this meeting on behalf of the ECML and offered some inspiring information and experience with the ELP and showed a few examples of good practice with the ELP abroad. He contributed to the improvement of the overall conception of in-service training courses. Michael Langner will be a foreign expert at the international conference “E-portfolio in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning” which will be held on 25th October 2012 in Prague in cooperation with the ECML as well.