International Conference
Languages as a Lifeskill - New Perspectives on LSP Teaching and Learning
jointly organized by
The Department of English and German for Business Communication and Economics,
Academy of Economic Studies - ASE, Bucuresti,
QUEST Romania - The Romanian Association for Quality Language Services
The Grundtvig Project "Innovative Practice in Adult Language Education" (GRU-09-P-LP-82-B-CZ)
Bucuresti, Romania, 21-22 May 2010
Venue: Academia de Studii Economice, Bucuresti
Dedicated to providers of language education and training, as well as to researchers and professionals from language and literature teaching institutions, the conference promotes and upholds quality in education and research processes, focuses on high standards of teaching, on educational management, service to students and adaptation of curricula to life skills and to new approaches in applied research. The conference will bring together plenary speakers, workshop leaders and project partners from the international community of language specialists, and will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas, methods and expertise on a wide range of topics, in an attempt to address the multiple dimensions of the Language Teacher and Researcher profession.
MAIN THEMES:
- New approaches in applied research and education
e.g. in linguistics, cultural studies, literary studies, education research, interdisciplinary studies
- Integrated language and intercultural competencies for career development
- Teacher Development and Lifelong Learning - a forum for sharing ideas, expertise and project outcomes
- Innovative practices in LSP teaching and learning
e.g. language teaching methodology, using on-line resources for greater learner autonomy, CEFR-inspired course design and (self-)evaluation, incl. LWULT-languages (e.g. BG, CZ, HU, PL, RO)
- Quality Management in language education
Quality Assurance in Higher Education - implementing European projects, e.g. QualiTraining (ECML Project)
National and European quality assurance systems - learning from each other
CONFERENCE LANGUAGES: EN, DE, RO
PAPERS FOR THE VOLUME WITH CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS can be submitted in EN, DE, ES, FR, IT, RO (with an abstract in English), to be published on CD ROM with ISBN - Editura ASE (see attached Author Guidelines)
DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING ABSTRACTS AND REGISTRATION FORM: 10 MAY 2010
CONTACT DETAILS: quest.ase.2010@gmail.com
Contact persons: Monica Marin (Mobile: +40 727 779936) and Laura Muresan (Mobile: +40 722 625737)
We look forward to welcoming you to our joint ASE - QUEST - Grundtvig event!
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8th Annual Conference of QUEST Romania
For a Better Quality of the Intercultural Dialogue
Event dedicated to the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue
and the European Day of Languages
Bucharest, Romania, 17 – 18 October 2008
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION FORM
SPEAKER’S PROPOSAL FORM
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
QUEST România în colaborare cu Academia de Studii Economice Bucuresti,
Goethe-Institut Bukarest şi PROSPER-ASE Language Centre
organizează
A 8-a Conferinţă Anuală QUEST România
„Pentru o mai bună calitate a dialogului intercultural”
Eveniment dedicat Anului European al Dialogului Intercultural şi
Zilei Europene a Limbilor
ASE (clădirea „Mihai Eminescu”, Blvd. Dacia 41, lângă Piaţa Romană), Bucureşti,
17 – 18 octombrie 2008 (vineri, orele 13.00 – sâmbătă, 16.30)
QUEST România – Asociaţia Română pentru Servicii Lingvstice de Calitate – membru asociat EAQUALS – anunţă a 8-a conferinţă anuală, care se desfăşoară în Bucureşti, 17 – 18 Octombrie 2008 (vineri, orele 13.00 – sâmbătă, 16.30). Organizatorii locali ai acestui eveniment anual sunt: PROSPER-ASE Bucureşti, membru fondator al QUEST România, Goethe-Institut Bukarest, Academia de Studii Economice din Bucureşti (ASE) – Catedra de Limbi Germanice şi Comunicare în Afaceri şi Masteratul Interdisciplinar Comunicare în Limba Engleză pentru Predare şi Cercetare Economică , în cooperare cu membrii QUEST.
Ca în fiecare an, principalele scopuri ale conferinţei naţionale QUEST sunt:
- crearea unui forum pentru schimbul de experienţă între profesionişti reprezentând diferite limbi şi domenii de specialitate, şi
- promovarea unei educaţii de calitate, la standarde internaţionale.
Ce este nou de data aceasta, în Anul European al Dialogului Intercultural? Scopul major al conferinţei este să evidenţieze relevanţa integrării competenţelor lingvistice şi interculturale pentru dezvoltarea profesională, precum şi multiplele valenţe ale interdisciplinarităţii şi mobilităţii internaţionale.
Temele principale:
- Managementul calităţii în educaţie – ultimele noutăţi
- Regândirea formării profesorilor şi rolul învăţării permanente
- Integrarea competenţelor lingvistice cu cele interculturale, pentru noi perspective de angajare şi în carieră
- Forum pentru lingvişti şi alţi specialişti, centrat pe interdisciplinaritate
- Proiecte naţionale şi internaţionale şi parteneriate în educaţie ca modalitate de dezvoltare – ex. proiectele Comisiei Europene, programele Centrului European pentru Limbi Moderne (ECML) / Cosiliul Europei, etc.
- Interculturalitate – noi abordări în cercetarea aplicată şi educaţie
Invitaţi de onoare: Dna Sandra Pralong, Ambasador AEDI,
Dr. Maria Matheidesz, EAQUALS, Dl Andy Hockley, reprezentanţi ai Anului European al Dialogului Intercultural, ai Ministerului Educaţiei şi Cercetării, ai Agenţiei Naţionale ptr. Programe în Domeniul Educaţiei şi Formării Profesionale, ai Departamentului ptr. Relaţii Interetnice - Guvernul României, ai Institutelor Culturale europene
Locul de desfăşurare: Academia de Studii Economice, Catedra de Limbi Germanice, clădirea Fac. REI, etaj 5
Plenarele: ASE, cladirea Fac de Cibernetica, parter, sala 2013
Secretariat ştiinţific al conferinţei: lect. univ. drd. Roxana Ciolăneanu & asist.univ. drd. Ştefania Tarbu
Detalii de contact: conference@quest.ro ; Tel.: 021 2117800; 0723 567522;
We look forward to welcoming you to the annual
QUEST event in Bucharest!
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7th Annual Conference of QUEST Romania
Intercultural and Multilingual Dialogue - United in Diversity
Event dedicated to the celebration of Europe's 50th anniversary
Constanta, Romania, 30 November - 1 December 2007
Conference Announcement and Call for Papers
QUEST Romania - The Romanian Association for Quality
Language Services - EAQUALS Associate Member - announces its 7th Annual
Conference, to be held in Constanta on November 30th - December 1st
2007 (Friday-Saturday). The local organiser of this annual event is
CLASS Constan?a, a founder member of QUEST, in co-operation with the
QUEST office at PROSPER-ASE in Bucharest.
As in every year, the main aims of the QUEST conference are two-fold:
to provide a forum for professionals representing different languages
and educational sectors to share expertise, and to promote the European
dimension.
What is special this time, on the eve of the "European year of
intercultural dialogue"? The main focus will be on the relevance
of language and intercultural competencies for economic development,
modern European citizenship, employability and international mobility.
Key questions the conference aims to address include:
How can we best facilitate the development of integrated competences
for social cohesion? What are the new challenges and opportunities
for education and teacher development in addressing the needs of businesses?
How far have we got with the implementation of European concepts and
instruments into teaching, learning and assessment? What are the latest
developments at European / international level?
The conference aims at bringing together participants
that represent the language education and business sectors in Romania
as well as representatives of leading international organisations
- EAQUALS, ALTE, the Council of Europe, the EU Commission and Agencies.
Main Themes:
"Enhanced employability through language and intercultural skills
"Managing European citizenship and fostering social cohesion
"Lifelong learning for the European Teacher - re-thinking Teacher
"Euro-competences"
"Business forum for entrepreneurs and language professionals
"The language of business and the business of language
"Implementing Portfolio- and CEFR-based self-assessment for a
more effective development of integrated "Euro-competences"
"International projects and partnerships in education as the
way ahead - e.g. European Centre for Modern Languages / Council of
Europe programmes, EU Commission projects, etc.
"Quality Management in education - the latest developments
"Crossing cultures - new approaches in applied research and education.
Key-note and guest speakers: leading international experts
and personalities - Denis Cunningham, Philip Kerr, Pat Lodge, Larry
Wilson.
Conference venue: Constanta - Biblioteca Judeteana "I.N.
Roman"
Registration: Early registration & Speaker proposal by:
16 November 2007
Late registration deadline: 26 November 2007
More details and updates can be found on the QUEST Romania website
www.quest.ro
Contact details: E-mail address: conference2007@quest.ro (+40)241
612877; (+40)341 104464;
Conference secretary: Cristiana Crivat - e-mail: study@class.org.ro
; mobile: (+40)723 137406
Postal address: CLASS Constanta, str. Mircea cel Batran nr. 103, 900592
Constanta, Romania
We look forward to welcoming you to the annual QUEST
event in Constanta!
Adrian Ionescu
Director CLASS Constanta,
on behalf of the Organising Committee:
Ovidiu Ursa - President
QUEST Romania, Laura Muresan - Founder President of QUEST Romania
Marketing
your project products and results
Conference and
Project Fair organised by
QUEST ROMANIA - the Romanian Association for Quality Language Services
in collaboration with
EuroEd Foundation, Iasi, Romania
Iasi - Romania, 10-11 September 2007
The
aim of this event is to bring together promoters involved in language
education and experts in marketing for the educational field across
Romania and beyond with the view of identifying good practice for
dissemination and promotion of project results. The event facilitates
the sharing of experience and expertise between two fields (education
and marketing) that do not meet often. The conference participants
will be able to identify effective dissemination and promotion strategies
for their project outcomes resulting from the implementation of completed
and ongoing projects.
The event will also include, a training session offered by the Inspire
Project, a workshop on giving and receiving feedback (both in
an organisational and classroom context), workshop offered by Andrew
Hockley, an educational management consultant and trainer, and the
presentation of the European project Learning by Moving.
The conference and fair Marketing your project products and
results is targeted for project co-ordinators and partners,
current National Agencies, marketing experts, educational policy makers,
publishers, mass media, teachers and mentors, etc. The proceedings
of the conference will be held in English and/or Romanian and will
be published
on the QUEST website.
6th Annual Conference of QUEST Romania
Cluj-Napoca, Romania, 24-25 November 2006
Click
here to download the conference announcement,
the registration form and the speaker proposal form.
QUEST
ROMANIA
AGM, 24 - 26 February 2006
