Regional Conference 'Language Certification and Assessment of Language Competences' in Eupen

Together with the German-speaking Community in Belgium the Network for Multilingualism and Linguistic Diversity (RML2future) organized its first regional conference in Eupen, Belgium from 8th - 10th February 2010. The aim of the network is to promote multilingualism and linguistic diversity in Europe, actively involving the regional and minority languages.
The conference, which were dedicated to certification and assessment of language competences, was the first of a series of expert meetings. It has been supported by the minister of education of the German-speaking Community, Oliver Paasch.
The objective of the experts meetings was to contribute to the exploitation of the potential in regional education by bringing together practitioners, experts and decision makers and to cooperate on the European level.
The multilingual regions that are involved in the project, namely from Germany, Denmark, Austria, Belgium and Italy were invited to the congress, as well as other European minorities and regions that were interested.

Contact:
Edgar Hungs,
Agentur für Europäische Bildungsprogramme VoG,
Postfach 72 in 4700 Eupen,
e.hungs@aebp.be
or

Judith Walde,
Project manager:
judith.walde@fuen.org

Downloads:

• Programme of the 1st Regional Conference
• Invitation with programme
• Participants
• Infomail participants
• Workshop descriptions

Powerpoint presentations:

• Presentation of the network

• Presentation of language policy in the DG Belgium Presentation of language certification Corina SENSTER (BE)

• Language certification and testing of language skills in Europe Prof. Manfred PETERS (BE)

• European policy of multilingualism Johan HÄGGMAN (FIN)

• Europass – Language Passport Lydia RÖSSLER (AT)

• Workshop on DELF, PISA, IGLU – surveys on minority languages based on the example of the DG Belgium Corina SENSTER (BE)