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Conference, 20-21 March 2014, GRAZ

“Quality education and language competences for 21st century society: traditions, challenges and visions”

Under its Chairmanship of the Committee of Ministers, Austria is holding a High Level Conference on Quality Education on 20-21 March 2014, in cooperation with the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe, in Graz, Austria.

The conference “Quality education and language competences for 21st century society: traditions, challenges and visions” will examine the definition of quality education in contemporary mobile and diverse societies with a particular focus on the role of language education, thus highlighting the work of the European Centre for Modern Languages (see draft programme below). 

 Programme - PDF version
 About the venue

Number of participants:

A maximum of 200 participants can attend the conference. There is no limit of participants per country. Places will be allocated on a first-come-first-serve basis.

Conference costs:

No conference registration fee.
Travel and subsistence costs will be covered by each participant.

Registration:

Registration will be open until 7 March 2014
Should you be interested in this conference please register here and we will inform you about the availability of places. 
Please contact us as early as possible if you need help with booking a hotel room.

 Registration form

Contact for registration and requests: 
Stefanie Öttl, oettl.verein@ecml.at

Media contacts for further information: 

In Vienna - Oliver Lehmann, journalist, (text.unit@oliverlehmann.at, tel. +43 (0) 676 4012562)

In Graz - Ursula Newby, (verein.efsz@ecml.at, tel. +43 (0)676 7452952)

Council of Europe Directorate of Communications

Tel: +33 (0)3 88 41 25 60

Fax:+33 (0)3 88 41 39 11

pressunit@coe.int

www.coe.int