Calendar 2012
September 2012
Network meeting - ECML training and consultancy for member States
5-6 September 2012
“Constructing and validating language tests linked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)”
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: José Noijons, The Netherlands
Co-animators: Jana Bérešová, Slovak Republic; Gilles Breton, France; Gábor Szabó, Hungary
Participants: 1 representative of each of the following ECML member States: Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Iceland, Lithuania
Website: RelEx
Participation in an external event
6-8 September 2012
12th Conference of the European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (CercleS): "University Language Centres: Going for gold – Overcoming hurdles"
Venue: London School of Economics - Language Centre, United Kingdom
Organiser: CercleS, member of the ECML Professional Network Forum
Participants: teachers and researchers from language centres, departments, institutions, faculties and schools in higher education whose main responsibility is the teaching of language
ECML contribution: stand, documentation
Website: www2.lse.ac.uk/language/CercleS2012/Cercles2012.aspx
Hosted event at the ECML premises
12 September 2012
Meeting of the Europahaus
Organiser: Europahaus, Graz
National support event
13 September 2012
Seminar and workshops on “Intercultural education – pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures“
Venue: Podgorica, Montenegro
Expert: Ildikó Lőrincz, Hungary (team member of CARAP - A Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches to languages and cultures)
Local organiser: British Council with the collaboration of Nataša Perić, Bureau for Education Services Montenegro (Samostalni savjetnik za međunarodnu saradnju, Zavod za školstvo) and ECML National Contact Point in Montenegro
Participants: up to 200 teachers of English, French, Italian, German and Russian as well as decision makers from the main educational institutions in Montenegro
Programme: Intercultural Education / Interkulturna nastava MNE
Expert meeting
13-14 September 2012
“Languages in corporate quality” (LINCQ)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Wolfgang Mackiewicz, Germany
Participants: project team
Network meetinG
13-14 September 2012
"Mobility programmes for sustainable plurilingual and intercultural learning” (PluriMobil)
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Mirjam Egli Cuenat, Switzerland
Co-animators: Chantal Muller, Belgium; Kristin Brogan, Ireland; Anna Czura, Poland
Participants: selected participants of the workshop in 2011
Participation in an external event
14 September 2012
Conference and workshop on Plurilingual education in Europe - objectives and implementation ("Mehrsprachige Bildung in Europa: Ziele und Umsetzung / L’éducation plurilingue en Europe: objectifs et mise en œuvre")
Venue: Taipei, Taiwan
Organisers: French and German authorities
ECML experts: Michel Candelier and Anna Schröder-Sura, coordinators of the ECML project "A Framework of Reference for Pluralistic Approaches to languages and cultures(CARAP)" (2008-2011)
ECML contribution: documentation
Participation in an external event
17-19 September 2012
Sign Language Interpreter Training: An Integrated Approach
Venue: University of Graz, ECML
Organiser: European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters (efsli)
Website: http://www.uni-graz.at/uedo1www/uedo1;
www-veranstaltungen/programme.htm
Visit of the ECML (traineeship)
17-21 September 2012
Participant: Carine Espigares, Institut National des Langues, Luxembourg
Visit of the ECML
17-21 September 2012
Participant: Prof. Katsuaki Okihara, Kolbe, Japan
Network meeting - ECML training and consultancy for member States
18 September 2012
“Supporting local networks of users of the European Language Portfolio through an E-Platform”
Venue: ECML, Graz, Austria
Coordinator: Bärbel Kühn, Germany
Co-animators: Michael Langner, Switzerland/Luxembourg; Maria Luisa Perez Cavana, United Kingdom
Participants: representatives of the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland
Hosted event at the ECML premises
19-21 September 2012
Conference of the EU project "chance4change"
Organiser: Chance4Change
Website: http://chance4change.eu/
ECML training and consultancy for member States
24 September 2012
“Developing on-line teaching skills” (DOTS): ICT and Social Media in Language Education - 3rd Warsaw Language Conference
Venue: Warsaw, Poland
Experts: Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic, Croatia; Pauline Ernest, Spain
Local organiser: Anna Grabowska, Foundation for the Development of the Education System
Working languages: English and Polish
Participants: 300 Polish and foreign language policy decision makers, ICT experts, language education providers, teacher trainers, researchers, teacher trainers, trainee teachers, social and business partners, language education stakeholders
Conference website
European day of languages
25 September 2012
Press information with Sonja Grabner (City of Graz), Patrick Schnabl (Province of Styria), Manuel P. Neubauer (Europahaus - Europazentrum), Waldemar Martyniuk (Executive Director, ECML), Michael Armstrong (Administrator, ECML)
26 September 2012
Website: http://www.coe.int/edl
Participation of ECML staff in an event
26-28 September 2012
"Multilingualism in Europe" conference
Venue: Limassol, Cyprus
Organiser: European Commission
ECML contribution: keynote by Waldemar Martyniuk, Executive Director; publication stand
Website: http://multilingualism-in-europe.teamwork.fr/en/programme
PARTICIPATION IN AN EXTERNAL EVENT
26-28 September 2012
3rd International Colloquy "Interférences culturelles à travers la traduction et l'interprétation" , European Day of Languages and 11th Anniversary of the Translation and Interpretation Departement (DTI) of the Faculty of Philology Blaže Koneski
Venue: Skopje, "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia"
Organiser: Faculty of Philology Blaže Koneski - Translation and Interpretation Department, Faculty of Philology - University Sts Cyril &Method
ECML contribution: documentation
ECML TRAINING AND CONSULTANCY FOR MEMBER STATES
27-28 September 2012
“Constructing and validating language tests linked to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR)”
Venue: Nicosia, Cyprus
Experts: Gilles Breton, France; José Noijons, The Netherlands
Local organiser: Sotiria Hadjichristofi-Neocleous, Ministry of Education and Culture, Cyprus
Participants: teachers
Project site: Relex
Hosted event at the ECML premises
29 September 2012
Annual meeting of the Austrian-Slovenian Friendship Society
Organiser: Austrian-Slovenian Friendship Society (Graz, Austria)