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Conférence mondiale de l'UNESCO sur l'éducation pour le développement durable 2014 - Apprendre aujourd’hui en vue d’un développement durable
Date :  du 10-11-2014 au 12-11-2014
Lieu :  Aichi - Nagoya
Organisation :  United Nations Educational (UNESCO) - Scientific and Cultural Organization
avec le Gouvernement du Japon
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En 2014, à l’occasion de la fin de la Décennie pour l'éducation en vue du développement durable, l’UNESCO et le Gouvernement du Japon organisent la Conférence mondiale de l’UNESCO sur l’éducation en vue du développement durable – Apprendre aujourd’hui en vue d’un développement durable (10-12 novembre).
La Conférence mondiale sur l’éducation en vue du développement durable 2014 établira un bilan de la mise en œuvre de la Décennie des Nations Unies pour l’éducation en vue du développement durable (DEDD), et prendra acte des réalisations de la Décennie. La Conférence présentera des initiatives, des acteurs, des réseaux et des idées qui ont été générés par la DEDD. Des exemples de bonnes pratiques utilisées dans le monde entier joueront un rôle important afin d’identifier des approches de l’EDD viables, mais aussi des domaines-clés pour les actions à venir.
En s’appuyant sur la Déclaration de Bonn de 2009, la Conférence utilisera la pertinence de l’EDD pour prolonger l’ensemble des efforts visant à améliorer la qualité de l’éducation. Elle soulignera le rôle joué par l’EDD en matière de transition vers des économies et des sociétés vertes, et en tant que catalyseur de la planification et de la mise en œuvre intersectorielles de programmes axés sur des domaines tels que le changement climatique, la biodiversité ou la réduction des risques de catastrophes. La Conférence se penchera également sur la façon dont l’EDD peut aider les politiques et les mesures en matière de développement durable à évoluer pour répondre aux différents besoins mondiaux, régionaux, nationaux et locaux.
L’examen de la mise en œuvre de la Décennie pendant la Conférence permettra d’élaborer des stratégies pour les activités d’EDD après 2014. À seulement trois ans de la date cible fixée pour les Objectifs du Millénaire pour le développement et les objectifs de l’Éducation pour tous (EPT), et deux ans après Rio+20, la Conférence soulignera également la pertinence de l’EDD pour le prochain ensemble d’objectifs mondiaux pour l’éducation et le développement. Elle apportera des contributions concrètes aux ordres du jour post-2014 de l’éducation et du développement durable.
URL :  http://www.unesco.org/.../

Learning languages in the family - Let's become a bilingual family with the BILFAM project!
"Let's become a bilingual family" (BILFAM) is a project co-funded by the European Union within the Key Activity 2: Languages of the Lifelong Learning Programme. It took place between December 2010 and January 2013 and it was conducted by a consortium of 5 European countries: Italy, UK, Romania, Slovakia and Spain. The consortium included two universities, two language schools, a publisher, and a maternity centre.
A total of 125 families were involved in an unprecedented adventure: mothers, fathers and children shared the path of learning a new language thanks to the "Adventures of Hocus and Lotus" and the Narrative Format methodology created by Professor Traute Taeschner of the University of Rome "La Sapienza". Over the years this method has been tested successfully for teaching languages to children aged 0 to 11 (for example in the European projects "Dinotour" and "Stories about Hokus and Lotus") and has been awarded many prizes, including one as best Socrates project in Berlin in 2007.
The family is the centre of loving relationships and shared significant experiences where children learn to speak, and so it lends itself very well to the adoption of the Narrative Format as the method for language learning. Families challenged themselves to act out the stories of the Hocus and Lotus dinocrocs and by doing so they introduced a second or third language in their daily life.
Along this learning path families could rely on the tutor's support both in face-to-face meetings and online through the website, where they could not only avail themselves of 13 activities especially designed to learn to speak a new language but also create a real community in which they could exchange experiences, opinions and reflections with other participants through a blog and a forum.
Thanks to the results obtained and the materials created in the project, more families will be able to start the path towards multilingualism by taking part in the BILFAM courses. Six training sessions, meetings with tutors and a wealth of materials available on the bilfam.eu website will allow them to experience daily opportunities to learn and use a new language.

Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, will visit Lithuania on 5-10 September to support the Lithuanian EU Presidency's push to ensure that quality education and opportunities for young people are at the top of the political agenda. During her visit, Commissioner Vassiliou will open the EU Youth Conference with Dalia Grybauskaitė, President of Lithuania, and the 'European Higher Education in the World' Conference with Prime Minister Algirdas Butkevicius.
On 5 September, the Commissioner will take part in the Presidency conference in Vilnius on European Higher Education in the World. The discussion will focus on the European Commission's new strategy on internationalisation in higher education which calls for bolder measures to strengthen cooperation and mobility across the EU’s borders to enhance the quality of higher education and contribute to job creation and innovation. Press release.

James Calleja was selected by the European Commission as new Director of Cedefop. Mr Calleja has been involved in vocational training since 2001 and is currently Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Education and Employment in his native Malta. He has also served as Chief Executive of the Malta Qualifications Council (2005-10) and the National Commission for Higher Education (2009-10).
Mr Calleja is a graduate of the Universities of Malta, Padua (Italy) and Bradford (UK), where he obtained his PhD from the Department of Peace Studies, Political Philosophy and Education. In 2001, he was appointed Administrative Director of the Malta College of Arts, Science and Technology and in 2004, he moved to the European Training Foundation as Administrator.
A prolific writer, Mr Calleja has published books and articles and has edited various publications. He is the co-author of the Malta Referencing Report of the Malta qualifications framework to the EQF and the QF-EHEA. He has chaired, participated in and presented several papers at international seminars, conferences and workshops and conducted training in various countries in Europe, North America, South-East Asia, Australia, South Africa, the Middle East and the Mediterranean region.
Mr Calleja will take up his duties on 16 October 2013.

aEduscol, the website of the Directorate-general for Schools of the French Ministry for National Education, offers a series of modules designed to help teachers in charge of educating students with disabilities.
The modules include tips and recommendations for teachers so they can quickly be aware of the main conditions of students with certain disabilities and the pedagogical adaptations available to facilitate their integration in the classroom.
URL: Ressources pour scolariser les élèves handicapés.