May 22 – 23, 2015, LACS Workshop took place at the ECML in Graz in a very friendly and stimulating atmosphere with 17 participants representing the UK, Iceland, Canada, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Slovenia, Bosnia and Hercegovina, Chroatia, Ireland, Netherlands and Malta.

Sarah Breslin

Executive Director

The ECML is pleased to announce the official launch of the Call for proposals for the next ECML Programme 2016-2019 „Languages at the Heart of Learning“. The Call was developed in close collaboration with experts and stakeholders in ECML member states and truly reflects current priorities in language education across our member states.

Please consult the dedicated Call website: http://call.ecml.at/  for further details. The deadline for submissions to the Call is 1 May 2015.

On the 3rd of December, 2014,  Language Teachers‘ Association  of Lithuania president Eglė Šleinotienė, vice-president Irena Navickienė, and vice-president Ilona Antanina Rinkevičienė took part in the annual event “Challenges and Success Stories of Teachers‘ Associations” organized by the Ministry of Education and Science and Education Development Centre.

Language Teachers’ Association of Lithuania (LKPA)
and
VMU Institute of Foreign Languages (IFL)
invite you to participate in
the 9th LKPA and the 3rd VMU IFL international scientific conference

Sustainable Multilingualism: Language, Culture And Society

Kaunas
29-30 May 2015

The aim of the conference is to assemble general and higher education language professionals, researchers, experts, politicians and other stakeholders to discuss innovations in the field of sustainable multilingualism development in the society, language didactics and intercultural communication development.

The DIV.ED project was presented during the national event dedicated to the European Day of Languages. The traditional public event, held on the 26th of September 2014 in the courtyard of the Teachers’ House, was organised by the Public Service Language Centre in cooperation with the cultural centres and the Embassies of over dozen states. At the stand of the Lithuanian Language Teachers’ Association the visitors could look at the DIV.ED dissemination materials and get additional information about the DIV.ED products and their applicability presented by Lidija Sipeliene-Valiene, project administrator, Olga Medvedeva, DIV.ED coordinator in Lithuania, Inga Rozgiene, the Lithuanian translator of the  DIV.ED module, Egle Sleinotiene, LKPA president.