We are dedicated professionals from all areas of language education and intercultural communication worldwide.

We promote excellence in the teaching and learning of languages by

• defining professional standards for teachers and learners

• recognizing quality and best practice across a wide range of educational environments

• disseminating these standards and practice to the widest possible public

By improving professional standards and teacher training in language education and intercultural competence more people achieve the higher level of communication skills that they need in our globalized, multilingual world.

The 20th ICC-Annual Conference 2013 “Language, Culture and Identity in Language Education” was held from 8th-10th March in Sofia, Bulgaria and was organised in cooperation with prestigious Sofia University, "Kliment Ohridski", and together with ECET, the Bulgarian ICC member, at the Sofia University.

In addition to the eminent keynote speakers, Professor Michael Byram, Jean-Claude Lasnier and Josef Huber, the ICC had the honour of hosting a number of other prominent and distinguished speakers who are specialists in the field of intercultural matters in language education like Ildikó Lázár, University Budapest, Hungary and Prof. Debra Ali-Lawson, Bern University of Applied Sciences. The objective of this language conference was to discuss the roles that intercultural competence should play in a world where we are all encouraged to become multilingual and where communicating with friends, family and acquaintances in far flung corners of the earth is now commonplace. Speakers and delegates addressed the question of what impact the phenomenon of learning a range of languages and experiencing various communities have on our sense of identity, and how language education professionals can respond to this challenge.