August 2010
Expert meeting
31 August - 1 September 2010
"Enhancing Romani language education in schools in Europe" (QualiRom)
Venue: University of Helsinki, Finland
Coordinator: Ulli Pawlata
Local organiser: Reetta Toivanen
Participation in an external event
26-28 August 2010
1st International Conference on Sign Language Education /
1. Internationaler Fachkongress Bildung durch Gebärdensprache
Venue: University of Hamburg, Germany
Organisers: National Federations of the Deaf of Germany (Deutscher Gehörlosen-Bund, DGB), Austria (Österreichischer Gehörlosenbund, ÖGLB) and Switzerland (Schweizerischer Gehörlosenbund, SGB-FSS)
ECML contribution: documentation
Website ( (in German)
Participation in an external event
22-24 August 2010
38th Summer Seminar: !"Theory and Practice in Communicative Language Teaching – the role of the European Language Portfolio"
Venue: Kusatsu, Japan
Expert: David Newby
Organiser: Japan Association of College English Teachers
Participants: Teacher educators
ECML contribution: EPOSTL documentation
Participation in an external event
21-22 August 2010
Summer Workshop: "Theory and Practice of L2 Teaching"
Venue: Kusatsu, Japan
Expert: David Newby
Organiser: Japan Association of Language
Participants: Teachers and teacher educators
ECML contribution: EPOSTL documentation
Participation in an external event
20 August 2010
Symposium "Contextualization of CEFR within the Japanese Institutional Context"
Venue: Tokyo, Waseda University, Japan
Expert: David Newby
Organiser: Japan Association of College English Teachers
Participants: teacher educators
ECML contribution: EPOSTL documentation
Participation of ECML staff in an event
18-21 August 2010
REAL training seminar: "How to motivate students: innovation and creativity in the languages classroom"
Venue: Krakow, Poland
Organisers: European network of language teacher associations (REAL), in cooperation with the Jagiellonian University (Krakow)
ECML contribution: speech by Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director, at a plenary session
Website