September 2014
Expert meeting
1-2 September 2014
"Mobility programmes for sustainable plurilingual and intercultural learning” (
PluriMobil)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Mirjam Egli Cuenat, Switzerland
Participants: project team
Participation in an external event
3-5 September 2014
“Supervisors Seminars for Teachers:
Evaluation Strategies- General Information for Academic Year 2014-2015”
Venue: Pedagogical Institute of Cyprus
Organisation: Ministry of Education and Culture of the Republic of Cyprus
Participants: Turkish Russian and German Language Teachers
ECML contribution: project related documentation "LACS - Language associations and collaborative support"
Participation in an external event
4-6 September 2014
13th CercleS international conference “Language Centres in Higher Education: Exploring and Shaping Plurilingual Profiles and Practice”
Venue: Fribourg, Switzerland
Organisation: European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS) with the Association of Swiss Language Centres in Higher Education (Fremdsprachenunterricht an Hochschulen in der Schweiz, IG-FHS / Enseignement des langues dans les Hautes Ecoles en Suisse, GI-ELHE, and the Language Centre of the University of Fribourg
ECML expert:
Frank Heyworth, ECML programme consultant 2012-2015, ECML representative in the Round Table
Website:
http://www.cercles2014.org/index.php/en/
Expert mission in the framework of the ECML project “Developing migrants' language competences at the workplace” (LanguageforWork)
10-13 September 2014
4th international conference: Applied Linguistics and professional practice (ALAPP)
Venue: Geneva, Switzerland
Experts: Alexander Braddell, United Kingdom; Matilde Grünhage-Monetti, Germany
Project site: //www.ecml.at/languageforwork
Conference site: http://www.unige.ch/alapp2014/PresentationFormats.html
ECML training and consultancy for member States
23-24 September 2014
“Plurilingual and intercultural competences: descriptors and teaching materials” (
FREPA)
Venue: Warsaw, Poland
Experts: Michel Candelier, France; Anna Schröder-Sura, Germany
Local organiser: Anna Susek, Language Education Department, Centre for Education Development (ORE); Anna Grabowska, Foundation for the Development of the Education System (FRSE), Poland
Working languages: English and French
Innovative methodologies and assessment in language learning, EU – ECML cooperation agreement 2014-2015
23 September 2014
Preparatory meeting within the framework of the partnership agreement between the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission and the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML): “Relating language examinations to the common European reference levels of language proficiency: promoting quality assurance in education and facilitating mobility (RELANG)”
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Experts: members of the RELANG team
Project site: //relang.ecml.at/en-us/
Innovative methodologies and assessment in language learning, EU – ECML cooperation agreement 2014-2015
24-25 September 2014
Network meeting within the framework of the partnership agreement between the DG Education and Culture of the European Commission and the European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML): “Relating language examinations to the common European reference levels of language proficiency: promoting quality assurance in education and facilitating mobility (RELANG)”
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Experts: members of the RELANG team
Participants: local organisers of national training workshops
Project site: //relang.ecml.at/en-us/
Hosted event at the ECML premises / Participation of ECML staff in an event
25 September 2014
General Assembly of the
Austrian Language Committee (Österreichisches Sprachenkomitee, ÖSKO)
Participation of ECML staff in an external event
25-26 September 2014
European Day of Languages Conference 2014 under the auspices of the Italian Presidency of the EU “Learning languages – new ways, new challenges”
Venue: Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Italy
Coordinating body: European Commission, Directorate General for Education and Culture (EAC), in cooperation with Directorate General for Translation (DGT) and Directorate General for Interpretation (SCIC)
ECML contribution: participation of Susanna Slivensky, Deputy Executive Director / Head of programmes, on 25 September
Programme
European Day of Languages
26 September 2014
Website: http://www.coe.int/edl
Participation of ECML staff in an external event
26-28 September 2014
12th Annual Conference of EFNIL "Language use in University Teaching and Research - Past, Present and Future"
Venue: Florence, Italy
Organisation: Accademia della Crusca
ECML contribution: participation of Susanna Slivensky, Deputy Executive Director / Head of programmes
Conference annoncement