May 2010
Participation of ECML staff in an event
6 May 2010
Europe Day event "We are Europe" during the Europe week
Venue: Hauptplatz, Graz, Austria
Organisers: the City Council of Graz and the provincial Government of Styria
ECML contribution: interviews with Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director; information stand; interactive language games with a prize ceremony; conversations on the Council of Europe´s role with the Centre´s staff
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Expert meeting
6-7 May 2010
“CARAP – a framework of reference for pluralistic approaches” (CARAP)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Michel Candelier, France
Participants: project team
Expert meeting
6-7 May 2010
“Curriculum development for Content and Language Integrated Learning” (CLIL-CD)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: María Jésus Frigols-Martin, Spain
Participants: project team
Statutory meeting
10-11 May 2010
45th meeting of the Bureau of the Governing Board
Expert meeting
12-13 May 2010
"Enhancing Romani language education in schools in Europe" (QualiRom)
Venue: University of Vienna, Austria
Coordinator: Ulli Pawlata
Participants: experts from Austria, Ireland, and Serbia
Visit of the ECML
17 May 2010
Guest: Anna Lasselsberger, representative of the ECML project “Majority language instruction as a basis for plurilingual education” (MARILLE) and of the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture (BMUKK), to prepare the Conference "Plurilingual education in Europe: inclusive practices in Southeast Europe" (ECML national support event, 7-8 June 2010, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Preparatory meeting of the network meeting
17 May 2010
“Minority languages, collateral languages and bi-/plurilingual education” (EBP-ICI)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Participants: project team
Network meeting
18-19 May 2010
“Minority languages, collateral languages and bi-/plurilingual education” (EBP-ICI)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Claude Cortier, France
Co-animators: Marisa Cavalli, Italy; James Costa, France; Martine Le Besnerais, Spain
Participants: active members of the network nominated by the project team and Frank Heyworth, programme consultant
Participation in an external event
20 May 2010
Conference - Focus on competency based language education (European Language Portfolio, competency based language learning, Common European Framework of Reference)
Venue: Pädagogischen Hochschule Vorarlberg, Feldkirch, Austria
Organiser: Österreichisches Sprachenkompetenz-Zentrum (ÖSZ), the National Contact Point for the ECML in Austria
Participants: 25
ECML contribution: documentation
Preparatory meeting of the Workshop
25 May 2010
1/2010 “Guidelines for university language testing” (GULT)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Participants: project team
Workshop
26-28 May 2010
1/2010 “Guidelines for university language testing” (GULT)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Johann Fischer, Germany
Co-animators: Catherine Chouissa, France; Stefania Dugovičová, Slovak Republic; Anu Virkkunen-Fullenwider, Finland
Working languages: English and French, with simultaneous interpretation
Participants: 1 delegate per member state, nominated by the ECML national nominating authorities
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Participation of ECML staff in an event
27-30 May 2010
7th Annual EALTA Conference "Collaboration in Language Testing and Assessment"
Venue: The Hague, Netherlands
Organiser: orgnised by the European Association for Language Testing and Assessement (EALTA); hosted by Cito, Institute for Educational Measurement, the Netherlands
ECML contribution: exhibition stand manned by ECML staff
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Participation in an external event
28-29 May 2010
6th International Conference ”European Integration – New Challenges”,
Venue: Faculty of Economics, University of Oradea, Romania
Organisers: Faculty of Economics in partnership with the Association of the Faculties of Economics, Romania - T.N. (AFER), the General Association of Economists, Romania - Bihor branch - T.N. (AGER), the Research Centre for Competitiveness and Sustained Development - T.N. (CCCDD), and the Centre for European Documentation - T.N. (EDCO) of the University of Oradea
Participants: more than 500 teachers, researchers and students from Romania and abroad
ECML contribution: documentation
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