The European Language Portfolio was developed and piloted by the Language Policy Division of the Council of Europe, Strasbourg, from 1998 until 2000. It was launched on a pan-European level during the European Year of Languages as a tool to support the development of plurilingualism and pluriculturalism.

Meetings of the Validation Committee in 2010: 

21^st meeting – 14-16 June
22^nd meeting – 22- 24 November

As announced at the 8th International Seminar on the ELP (Graz, 29 September-1 October 2009) the validation of ELP models will be replaced by a new registration procedure in 2011. The final deadline for submitting new ELP models for validation under the present procedure is 30 April 2010. The final versions of models that have been submitted previously and are being revised in order to meet the conditions for accreditation set by the Validation Committee may be submitted up until 30 October 2010.

8^th International Seminar on the European Language Portfolio
European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML), Graz, 29 September – 1 October 2009

The ELP was launched on a European scale during the European Year of Languages 2001 and has since proved to be of major interest in the member states; 103 models have been accredited by the European Language Portfolio Validation Committee (ED-EVC). The 8th seminar provided an opportunity for taking stock of the achievements of the ELP project to date, assessing the ELP’s impact in Council of Europe member states, presenting new supports for ELP developers and users, and discussing future strategy. 

The report by the Seminar Co-ordinator, David Little, is available in English here. 
 

Where Pedagogy and Assessement meet by David Little

An Impact Study by Maria Stoicheva, Gareth Hughes and Heike Speitz
 

Links 

Links to ECML activities on the ELP:

The ELP and Whole-School Use (ELP-WSU)    http://elp-wsu.ecml.at/
Training Teachers to use the ELP – follow-up (ELP-TT2)    http://elp-tt2.ecml.at

Additional descriptors (developed by EAQUALS) are available in a Data Bank of Descriptors.

8 April 2009: The Autobiography of Intercultural Encounters is now available for consultation on-line and downloading from
http://www.coe.int/t/DG4/AUTOBIOGRAPHY/

 

The Europass Language Passport, an electronic version of the standard Language Passport for adults jointly developed by the Council of Europe and the European Union, can be completed on line or downloaded from the Europass website : http://europass.cedefop.europa.eu/  The EAQUALS-ALTE e-ELP, the first electronic European Language Portfolio to be accredited by the European Validation Committee, can be downloaded from their website http://www.eelp.org/eportfolio/index.html   At its 15th meeting, the EVC accredited the electronic European Language Portfolio developed by NaB-MVT, the Dutch National Bureau for Modern Languages. It can be accessed via the following link: http://www.europeestaalportfolio.nl The 2007 Progress Report on the ELP is now available on the Documentation page.

 26 September: European Day of Languages:

 http://www.coe.int/EDL

 

See also http://www.coe.int/lang

European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML, Graz) http://www.ecml.at