LINKS

CEDEFOP, the European Training Village (ETV)
CEDEFOP, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, uses the latest available technology to bring professionals the most up to date information in the field of vocational education and training in Europe.
The European training village (ETV) newsletter is an awareness service distributed monthly by Cedefop featuring information on vocational training issues at European level: latest Community legislation and policy, calls for proposals, e-documents, web sites, news, forthcoming events, what's new at ETV and recent Cedefop publications. It has been prepared by the Library and documentation service in collaboration with the ETV.
http://www.cedefop.europa.eu

The National Centre for Languages, CILT
The National Centre for Languages was formed in 2003 through the merger of the Centre for Information on Language Teaching and Research and the Languages National Training Organisation. The creation of the new organisation was announced as part of the Government’s National Languages Strategy. It plays a key role in managing national initiatives in support of language capability and the implementation of the National Strategy as well as offering a wide range of services for teachers, learners, researchers, users and providers of language services and the business community.
CILT is based in London but operates throughout the United Kingdom, in partnership with its sister organisations CILT Cymru, Northern Ireland CILT and Scottish CILT. It pursues its objectives via a series of collaborative networks
www.cilt.org.uk

Council of Europe
The Council of Europe is an intergovernmental organisation which aims to protect human rights, pluralist democracy and the rule of law; to promote awareness and encourage the development of Europe’s cultural identity and diversity ; to seek solutions to problems facing European society (discrimination against minorities, xenophobia, intolerance, environmental protection, human cloning, Aids, drugs, organised crime, etc.); to help consolidate democratic stability in Europe by backing political, legislative and constitutional reform.
www.coe.int

European Association for the Education of Adults (EAEA, Brussels)
EAEA is a transnational, non-profit association whose purpose is to link and represent European organisations which are directly involved in adult learning. Its primary focus is NGOs whose principal aim is the education of adults, and it works where possible through national co-ordinating bodies for adult learning. Originally known as the European Bureau of Adult Education, it was founded in 1953 by representatives from a number of European countries.
Today the association is made up of some 100 organisations in 34 countries - from Cyprus to the Nordic countries, and from Iceland to Russia.
www.eaea.org

European Centre for Modern Languages (ECML, Graz)
Aim of the ECML is to promote  Language Education in Europe. The Council of Europe has created the European Centre for Modern Languages - a unique institution whose mission is to encourage excellence and innovation in language teaching and to help Europeans learn languages more efficiently.
www.ecml.at/

Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung -  InWEnt
InWEnt – Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung (Capacity Building International, Germany) gGmbH is synonymous with human resources and organisational development in international cooperation. Its education, exchange and dialogue programmes that offer places for about 55,000 individuals every year make InWEnt a very large-scale joint undertaking of the German Federal Government, the federal state (Länder) governments and industry. The courses offered by InWEnt address specialists, executives and decision-makers in industry, politics, administration and civil society. InWEnt works with partners in developing countries, transition states and industrialised nations.
http://www.inwent.org/

Language Course Finder - Internet Course Finders
The Language Course Finder website provides a wide range of information for people interested in the learning or teaching of foreign languages. Contents include the Language Course Finder, a directory listing more than 5,300 institutions providing tuition in their native language to foreign students.
With over 10 000 language schools teaching 88 languages in 115 countries, www.language-learning.net is the largest online directory of language courses and language schools worldwide.
http://www.language-learning.net/

Lingu@net Europa
Lingu@net Europa is a multilingual, on-line resource centre for foreign language learning. It provides information about, and links to good on-line resources from around the world relating to the learning and teaching of any modern foreign language. The whole site can be accessed in: Basque, Bulgarian, Catalan, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Icelandic, Italian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish.
www.linguanet-europa.org

TEFL jobs in FRANCE (Teaching English as a Foreign Language)
Site for EFL / ESL (English as a foreign language / English as a second language) teachers looking for employment in France, and employers seeking to recruit. If you are looking for employment in France as an English language teacher on a full-time or part-time basis, you have come to the right address!
http://www.tefljobsinfrance.com/

 

The European Language Certificates (telc)

The European Language Certificates are language examinations at four levels of the Council of Europe's Common European Framework. The examinations are run by the Weiterbildungs-Testsysteme GmbH, based in Frankfurt, Germany. The examinations, originally developed for adult education centres (VHS) in Germany, can be taken in 15 European countries.
www.telc.net