Curriculum convergences for plurilingual and intercultural education
	Seminar PROGRAMME Council of Europe, Agora Building 29-30 November 2011

Tuesday 29 November

09.00 – 09.30	Registration (Room G04)
Chair: Johanna Panthier	official opening
9.30 – 10.10	Opening The objectives of the seminar in relation to the Guide for the development and implementation of curricula for plurilingual and intercultural education and other tools of the Language Policy Division – Johanna Panthier Introductions Summary of data collected through the questionnaire : Francis Goullier, General Rapporteur
Chair: Mirjam Egli	Bloc A: Convergences between curricula for modern languages
10.10 – 10.20	Introduction : Overview of current convergences in this domain in the countries represented ; main thrusts and themes to be studied – Mirjam Egli
10.20 – 11.00	Case study  on “Making better use of convergences between the modern languages taught”: Switzerland (presentation and discussion)
11.00 – 11.30	Break
11.30 – 12.30 12.30 – 13.00	Case studies on “Making better use of convergences between the modern languages taught”: Austria and Slovak Republic (presentations and discussion) Case study on “Convergences between the modern languages and home languages taught” : France (presentation and discussion)
13.00 – 14.30	Lunch
Chair : Francis Goullier	Bloc B: Promoting innovations : practical implementations
14.30 – 14.40 14.40 – 15.10 15.10 – 15.40	Introduction Case study on “Practical implementations that foster convergences between modern languages”: The Netherlands (presentation and discussion) Case study on “Tools to support learning the languages of schooling as a means for learning”: Spain (presentation and discussion)
15.40 – 18.00	Group work

Wednesday 30 November (room G 05)

09.00 – 09.30

Reports on group work

Chair: Jean-Claude Beacco	Bloc C: Intercultural Education
9.30 - 9.55 9.55 – 10.25 10.25 – 10.50	The place of intercultural education in the curricula – Jean-Claude Beacco Case study on “The place of intercultural education in the curriculum”: Czech Republic (presentation and discussion) Break
Chair: Jean-Claude Beacco	Bloc D: - Convergences between languages of schooling - Convergences between modern languages and language(s) of schooling
10.50 – 11.00	Introduction – Jean-Claude Beacco
11.00 – 11.30	Case study on “Convergences between languages of schooling”: Luxembourg (presentation and discussion)
11.30 – 12.30 12.30 – 14.00	Case studies on “Convergences between modern languages and language(s) of schooling”: Bulgaria, Sweden (presentations and discussion) Lunch
14.00 – 14.15	The Platform of resources and references for plurilingual and intercultural education – Johanna Panthier
Chair: Marisa Cavalli	Bloc E: Longitudinal Convergences:  curriculum scenarios
14.15 – 14.25	Introduction to work on basic curriculum scenarios for prototypical case 1 : Introduction of a first modern language in ISCED 1 and of a second one in ISCED 2 – Marisa Cavalli Outline scenarios : CITE 0, CITE 1, CITE 2, CITE 3
14.25 – 15.30	Peer and plenary discussions
15.30 – 16.15	Close : Summary of main points discussed at the seminar – Francis Goullier Next steps – Johanna Panthier