Calendar 2012
March 2012
Expert meeting
5-7 March 2012
"Diversity in majority language learning" (MALEDIVE)
Venue: ECML; Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Eija Aalto, Finland
Participants: project team
PartIcipation of ECML staff in an event
7-8 March 2012
Intergovernmental Seminar "Meeting the challenge of multilingual classrooms: exploiting plurilingual repertoires, managing transitions and developing proficiency in the language(s) of schooling"
Venue: Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
Organiser: Language Policy Unit of the Council of Europe
ECML contribution: presentation of the ECML by Susanna Slivensky, Deputy Executive Director / Head of programmes; documentation
Website: www.coe.int/t/dg4/linguistic/Conference_EN.asp
Hosted event at the ECML premises
9 March 2012
COFACE event
Organiser: COFACE - Confederation of Family Organisations in the European Union
Participation of ECML staff in an event
9-10 March 2012
19th Annual Conference on "Perception and Reality in Language Education"
Venue: Pilsen, Czech Republic
Organiser: International Language Network (ICC)
ECML contribution: keynote by Waldemar Martyniuk; book exhibition
Expert meeting
12-14 March 2012
"Using open online resources for language teaching" (More DOTS)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Mateusz-Milan Stanojević, Croatia
Participants: project team
HOSTED EVENT AT THE ECML PREMISES
13 March 2012
"SWITCH" Language Contest
Organiser: Landesschulrat Steiermark
Participation of ECML staff in an event
13 March 2012
Meeting of the Committee of Ministers’ Rapporteur Group on Education, Culture, Sport, Youth and the Environment (GR-C)
Venue: Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
Organiser: Council of Europe
ECML contribution: presentation by Waldemar Martyniuk; documentation
Website
Visit of the ECML
19-22 March 2012
Participant: Rosa Margarita Galán Vélez, Head of the Academic Department of Languages of the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México (ITAM)
internal staff training
20 March 2012
Participants: ECML staff members
Expert meeting
21-23 March 2012
“Signed languages for professional purposes” (PRO-Sign)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Lorraine Leeson, Ireland
Participants: project team
Hosted event at the ECML premises
23 March 2012
Preparatory meeting of the Austrian Association of Language Didactics (ÖGSD, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Sprachendidaktik)
Organiser: ÖGSD
Participation of ECML staff in an event
27-29 March 2012
Inaugural meeting of the new Steering Committee for Education Policy and Practice
Venue: Council of Europe, Strasbourg, France
Organiser: Council of Europe
ECML contribution: presentation of the ECML by Waldemar Martyniuk; publication exhibition
Expert meeting
28-30 March 2012
"Developing migrants' language competences at workplace" (LanguageforWork)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Matilde Grünhage-Monetti, Germany
Participants: project team
Participation in an external event
29 March 2012
Symposium "Mut zur Mehrsprachigkeit - Neues aus Theorie und Praxis"
Venue: University of Applied Science Vorarlberg, Dornbirn, Austria
Organisation: Research Group DYME of the University of Innsbruck in cooperation with okay.zusammen leben/Projektstelle für Zuwanderung und Integration and the University of Applied Science Vorarlberg
ECML contribution: presentation of selected project results by Ursula Newby, Manager of the Austrian Association of the ECML; documentation
Website: http://www.okay-line.at/deutsch/aktuelles/symposium-mut-zur-mehrsprachigkeit/
Visit of the ECML
30 March 2012
Participants: students of the University of Graz (contact: Klaus-Börge Boeckmann)