Over 150 academics and administrators from best Russian universities came to Moscow in order to take part at an international seminar on recent development in the field of rankings by subject. The seminar: Road to Academic Excellence – Russian Universities in Rankings by Subject, Moscow, 9-10 April 2015, has been organized by Project 5-100 Headquarters responsible for implementation of the Russia Excellence Initiative (Russia) and Perspektywy Education Foundation (Poland). More...
The OLS language assessment is mandatory for all participants to Erasmus+ mobility activities of at least two months (studies/traineeships/EVS volunteering) with one of the following languages as the main language of instruction, work or volunteering: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch (with the exception of native speakers).
Language Courses
After taking the first language assessment, participants who have been selected by their sending institutions/organisations will have the opportunity to take language courses for free.
Access to the courses is funded by the EU within the framework of the Erasmus+ programme.
The participants will have the possibility to improve their knowledge in the main language used to study, work or volunteer during their Erasmus+ mobility period.
Lessons are currently available in the following languages
The OLS language assessment is mandatory for all participants to Erasmus+ mobility activities of at least two months (studies/traineeships/EVS volunteering) with one of the following languages as the main language of instruction, work or volunteering: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch (with the exception of native speakers).
Welcome to the Erasmus+ OLS language!
This user guide is dedicated to introducing the Online Linguistic Support language assessments to you in order to ensure your results will reflect the best of your knowledge regarding the particular language you are going to work or study in during your mobility period.
1.1 What is the purpose of this user guide?
This user guide includes instructions that will help you to quickly and efficiently complete your language assessment.
First of all you will learn what the IT system requirements are for using the OLS as well as how to log into the OLS. Once you can access your account, we will explore the language assessment to see how it is structured and what it assesses. Finally, we will provide you with some tips on how to make the most of your results.
9.6 OLS Code of Conduct
By registering on the OLS you agree with the basic principle that the OLS is a community of mobility participants based on trust and cooperation. The OLS team advises you to:
- Ensure that the pictures you upload (on your profile area) do not infringe any copyright.
- When posting a comment in the forum, ensure that your comment is relevant to the original post. Inappropriate comments are not permitted and are subject to reporting.
- Be sure that messages you post in forums are consistent with the topic of the forum.
- Refrain from using abusive language and be respectful of each other. It is strictly prohibited to use the OLS for commercial purposes.
Any company, initiative, event or software with a commercial intent will be removed. The OLS team cares about the mobility participants and will make sure that any abuse of the above code of conduct is not tolerated. Download Erasmus+ OLS language.
The OLS language assessment is mandatory for all participants to Erasmus+ mobility activities of at least two months (studies/traineeships/EVS volunteering) with one of the following languages as the main language of instruction, work or volunteering: German, English, Spanish, French, Italian and Dutch (with the exception of native speakers).
As of June 2015, the service will be extended to Vocational Education and Training (VET) learners participating in a mobility of at least one month.
Erasmus+ mobility participants must take the assessment twice — before and at the end of their mobility period — in order to monitor their progress in the language of mobility.
The online assessment assesses participants' language skills - listening, reading and writing - according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR).
What are the assessment steps?
Participants must complete the first language assessment before the mobility to assess their language competences. For higher education students, taking the OLS language assessment before their departure is a pre-requisite for the mobility, except if duly justified. Assessment results do not prevent participants from taking part in the mobility programme, but can be used by the sending institution/coordinating organisation to identify the participants most in need of linguistic support.
Based on their language proficiency, participants may have the opportunity to access the OLS learning platform to follow an online language course before and during their mobility period. This should be agreed between the participant and the institution/organisation in charge of his/her selection.
At the end of their mobility period, participants will be requested to take a second assessment to assess the progress made.
What happens with the assessment results?
Only the participants and the institutions/organisations in charge of their selection receive the results of the assessments. For EVS volunteers, the results will not be communicated to the other organisation(s) in the project. For higher education students, the results will not be communicated to the receiving institution/organisation.
Please consult the user guide of the language assessment here for further information. More...
26/03/2015, 14:15 - 18:00
27/03/2015, 09:30 – 13:00
Charlemagne Conference Centre
Room J. Durieux
Rue de la Loi 170
1049 – Brussels, Belgium
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Around 170 participants from more than 80 different universities took part in the 19th DG Interpretation-Universities Conference which was held on 26-27 March 2015 in Brussels.
Attendees came from member states and candidate countries, but also from China, Russia, Africa, Canada and the USA. Representatives from international organisations and other European institutions were also present.
The theme of this year's conference was "(re)Making Connections", and the new format of the event, being more dynamic and interactive, helped develop it further as a networking platform.
There were two discussion panels on each of the days: one on interpreter training support activities and the other on access to the profession - each of them followed by lively audience debates.
Kristalina Georgieva 
, Vice-President and European Commissioner for Budget and Human Resources, gave the opening address on the first day of the conference and awarded the diplomas to winners of the Leopoldo Costa Prize .
This year, the first prize went to Joshua Goldsmith, a student interpreter at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, who delivered a thought-provoking and touching speech on the theme of the conference.
The second prize went to Georgina Banfield from the University of Bath, UK, and the third prize to Ms Mihaela Tălpaș from Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
To watch the presentations and speeches, as well as the recordings and the photo slideshow, have a look at the conference website . More...
NELLIP 
has been funded by the European Commission in the framework of the Lifelong Learning Programme – Key Activity 2 Languages, for a three years period, to promote quality in language learning through the application of the quality criteria used to award the European Language Label (ELL). More...
Erasmus+ Online Linguistic Support (OLS) 
is the new online tool for learning languages on-the-go.
Sign up to Online Linguistic Support today
The 35,000th, 40,000th and 45,000th participants will also receive Erasmus+ goody bags filled with Erasmus+ gear and gadgets.
A very special surprise awaits the 50,000th participant of OLS language courses, so sign up to OLS and start learning a language today!
Winners will be contacted directly by the Erasmus+ team. More...
By Dirk Van Damme, Head of the Innovation and Measuring Progress division, Directorate for Education and Skills. The world is living through one of its most extraordinary revolutions, with game-changing implications, many of them still unknown. The growth rate of adults with tertiary education qualifications, and the knowledge and skills associated with them, has never been higher. In 2013, on average across OECD countries, 25% of 55-64 year-olds had a tertiary qualification, but 40% of 25-34 year-olds had – an increase of 15 percentage points over 30 years. But among OECD countries, differences are huge. Some countries had expanded their education systems a century ago, while others started to offer opportunities for tertiary education only recently. Read more...
By Andreas Schleicher, Director, Directorate for Education and Skills. As jobs increasingly involve analysing and communicating information, individuals with poor literacy skills are more likely to find themselves at risk. Poor proficiency in these skills limits adults’ access to many basic services, to better-paying and more-rewarding jobs, and to the possibility of participating in further education and training, which is crucial for developing and maintaining skills over the working life and beyond.
On this Leaders for Literacy Day, I want to share some findings from the OECD Survey of Adult Skills. The survey finds, for example, that the median hourly wage of workers scoring at the highest levels in literacy (Level 4 or 5 in the survey) – those who can make complex inferences and evaluate subtle truth claims or arguments in written texts – is more than 60% higher than for workers scoring at Level 1 or below – those who can, at best, read relatively short texts to locate a single piece of information that is identical to the information given in the question or directive or to understand basic vocabulary. In addition, people with poor literacy skills are more than twice as likely to be unemployed. Read more...
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