Calendar 2014

17 November - 5 December 2014
Three-week trainer training course
Venue: Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool university campus, Suzhou, near Shanghai, East China
Organiser: British Council China
Participants: 50 primary school teachers to be trained as trainers and mentors
ECML contribution: TrainEd publication "First steps in teacher training - A practical guide" – Project website (2000-2003)

5 December 2014
Inter-universitary Symposium on English Across the Curriculum
Venue: Hong Kong, China
Expert: Olivier Meyer, coordinator of the ECML project “Literacies through Content and Language Integrated Learning: effective learning across subjects and languages” (CLIL and Literacy)
Participants: about 50 academics, content experts (staff from academic departments and language centres in all tertiary institutions in Hong Kong), both from the discipline subjects and language areas interested in exploring ways to enhance students' English in discipline content subjects at university level 
Symposium website

5 December 2014 
Conference “Innovative teaching through international cooperation” and European Language Label ceremony
Venue: Stockholm, Sweden 
Organisation: Skolverket / Swedish National Agency for Education  and the Swedish Council for Higher Education
Within the framework of the conference: presentation of the ECML and examples of different ECML projects by Eva Engdell (Governing Board member, National Nominating Authority, National Contact Point for the ECML) 
Participants: about 60 language experts 
ECML contribution: documentation 
ECML web pages dedicated to Sweden

11 December 2014
Preparatory meeting of the network meeting “Plurilingual and intercultural competences: Descriptors and teaching materials" (FREPA/CARAP)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Michel Candelier, France
Participants: project team
Related websites:    

http://carap.ecml.at
//www.ecml.at/ECMLtrainingandconsultancyformemberstates/CARAP/tabid/1160/language/en-GB/Default.aspx 

12 December 2014
Network meeting “Plurilingual and intercultural competences: Descriptors and teaching materials” (CARAP national networks)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Michel Candelier, France
Participants: local organisers of events scheduled to take place in Croatia, Germany, The Netherlands, Romania (to be confirmed)
Related websites:    

http://carap.ecml.at
//www.ecml.at/ECMLtrainingandconsultancyformemberstates/CARAP/tabid/1160/language/en-GB/Default.aspx

Expert meeting

15-16 December 2014

“Involving parents in plurilingual and intercultural education” (CARAP for parents)

Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria

Coordinator: Stéphanie Clerc, France

Participants: project team