The latest newsletter edited by the European Forum of Sign Language Interpreters dedicates an article to the Signed Languages for Professional Purposes project of the ECML.
Publications of the project will be available by the end of 2015 at http://www.ecml.at/pro-sign. The following outputs will be published in the project’s two working languages (International Sign and English). More...

We would like to offer you an opportunity to participate in the validation of a new set of CEFR Illustrative Descriptors for mediation by completing an online questionnaire. The online questionnaire asks you to consider descriptors by thinking about a person you know very well (this could be yourself or someone else), and how they perform in a second/foreign language. This is a project of the Language Policy Unit of the Council of Europe.
If you would like to participate please go to the following link to see the contents of each survey. Once you have decided which scales are of interest, select the survey link and complete the questionnaire. Please note that you cannot save your responses and come back to the survey – it must be completed in one sitting. More...

Babylonia dedicates its latest issue to pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures - in other words, to teaching orientations that prepare learners for multilingualism and interculturalism while strengthening their motivation to learn.
The contribution focuses on several projects within the current ECML programme (FREPA, MALEDIVE, PARENTS), in particular highlighting the importance of the Framework for pluralistic approaches to languages and cultures (FREPA) in the context of the ECML.
FREPA has contributed to the recognition of pluralistic approaches. It has also sparked new experiments and projects all over Europe. This process is described in arrange of different contexts in this issue. More...

At its 24th meeting on 23 October the Governing Board of the European Centre for Modern Languages unanimously adopted the Centre’s 2016-19 programme entitled “Languages at the heart of learning” and acknowledged the importance of this new programme in addressing major challenges in language education in member states.
The programme is structured around three key work strands: Development, Training and Consultancy, and Mediation which together form a cohesive, yet dynamic whole. The development strand encompasses both projects and think tanks.   Whilst this strand constitutes the predetermined element of content development within the programme, a large degree of flexibility is offered through the Training and Consultancy and Mediation strands, whose exact composition which will be determined by member states on an annual basis. More...

Esko Koponen and Jennifer Valcke

PROLANG.NET aims to encourage learning of less used European languages in other Member States. It is co-financed under Key Activity 2 Languages of the Lifelong Learning Programme. More...