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.

European Language Portfolio: ‘New challenges and a new strategy’

National contact persons and international experts from member states are to meet to discuss the future development of the European Language Portfolio (ELP). The 8^th international seminar on the ELP, which is being organised jointly by the Council of Europe´s Language Policy Division and the Austrian Federal Ministry for Education, Art and Culture, will take place at the European Centre for Modern Languages in Graz from 29 September to 1 October at the kind invitation of the Austrian authorities.

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; 102 models have been accredited by the European Language Portfolio Validation Committee (ED-EVC). The seminar will provide 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. 

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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/

 

Electronic news !

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