February 2010
Participation of ECML staff in an event
3 February 2010
Languages in Europe Seminar
Venue: House of Lords, London, United Kingdom
Organiser: National Director for Languages, London School of Economics, UK
ECML contribution: participation of Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director, in the discussions
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Preparatory meeting of the network meeting
3 February 2010
“Piloting and implementing the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages” (EPOSTL2)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Participants: project team
Participation in an external event
3-6 February 2010
Expolangues Fair "Les langues du monde, le monde des langues / Languages of the world, the world of languages"
Venue: Paris, France
Organiser: Groupe l'Etudiant, Paris
Participants: 22 618 visitors (professionals and wider public), 30 countries and 80 langues represented
ECML contribution: documentation for the CIEP stand, the National Contact Point for the ECML in France
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Network meeting
4-5 February 2010
“Piloting and implementing the European Portfolio for Student Teachers of Languages” (EPOSTL2)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: David Newby, Austria
Co-animators: Anne-Brit Fenner, Norway; Barry Lee Jones, United Kingdom; Silvia Velikova, Bulgaria
Participants: active members of the network nominated by the project team
Participation in an external event
4-6 February 2010
Third International TQAC Meeting: "Training, Quality and Certification in Foreign Language Teaching (TQAC in FLT) - Language teacher training in Europe and beyond: how to train teacher trainers" (4-5 February) , followed by the fourth edition of the Preparatory course for DITALS trainers (6 February)
Venue: Siena, Italy
Organiser: DITALS Centre (Certification of Competence in Teaching Italian to Foreigners) of the Università per Stranieri of Siena
ECML experts: Hanna Komorowska (co-author of EPOSTL), Laura Muresan (co-author of QualiTraining), Mercedes Bernaus (co-author of TrainEd)
Participants: teachers and teacher trainers for European languages, including Italian as a Second Language. The course for DITALS trainers is designed in particular for the needs of the network of institutions in Italy and abroad who signed an agreement with the DITALS Centre
ECML contribution: documentation
Expert meeting
8-9 February 2010
“CARAP – a framework of reference for pluralistic approaches” (CARAP)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Michel Candelier, France
Participants: project team
Participation of ECML staff in an event
9-10 February 2010
Conference ”Language rich Europe”
Venue: Berlin, Germany
Organiser: British Council
ECML contribution: participation of Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director, invited by British Council
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Statutory meeting
18-19 February 2010
44th meeting of the Bureau of the Governing Board
Hosted event at the ECML premises
25 February 2010
Meeting of the Graz Language Network (Sprachennetzwerk Graz)
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Expert meeting
24-26 February 2010
“Enhancing Romani language education in schools in Europe” (QualiRom)
Venue: Hotel Rezidence, Prague, Czech Republic
Experts: Jelena Filipović, Republic of Serbia; Jan Hero, Slovak Republic; Barbara Lazenby Simpson, Ireland; Ulli Pawlata, Austria; Reetta Toivanen, Finland
Local organisation: Irena Mašková and Jindrich Fryc, office for foreign services of the Czech Ministry of Education (MSMT-DZS), Czech Republic
Expert meeting
25-26 February 2010
“Training teachers to use the European Language Portfolio” (ELP-TT3)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Margarete Nezbeda, Austria
Participants: project team