Dear friends, dear colleagues,

Please see below a call for teachers to participate in the Ukrainian Catholic University's Summer School, and a survey about the teaching of Ukrainian as a foreign language in universities outside of Ukraine.

In addition, we would like to inform you of the dates for the monthly Leadership meetups, as well as the date of the next Teachers' meetup.  

We also want to remind you to visit the news section on our website for up-to-date information about training opportunities, conferences, and other interesting events offered by our members. 

Calling all language teachers!

Our newest CercleS' associate member, the Center of Modern Languages of the Ukrainian Catholic University in Lviv, Ukraine, will this summer again offer its very popular in-person Summer School in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish. They are looking for teachers who are interested in teaching for this Summer School from 19 June to 1 July 2023 in a lovely setting north of Lviv. Please find more information here. 

CercleS survey: teaching Ukrainian as a foreign language

We are currently seeing an increase in the availability of Ukrainian language courses at European universities. To get more accurate data on Ukrainian language teaching at our CercleS member institutions, we invite you all to participate in this short survey until 31 March. We will communicate the results in our community and make them available to Ukrainian language centres.

The survey is available here.
Thank you for your time!

Announcing the next teachers' meetup

Having held a very successful first Teachers' Meetup attended by 49 members, we will be hosting a second session on 14 March 17:00-18:30 CET. 

The sessions will be organised around breakout-rooms where teachers of a specific (target) language will be able to talk about the specific issues concerning its teaching. We will have breakout rooms for teachers of English, French, Spanish, Italian, German, Swedish and Chinese, and we are happy to expand the offering if needed. Please let us know if you and your colleagues would like us to create a room for another language. It will not be necessary to speak English or any other language than the one you teach to take part in these sessions. Please promote the meetup among your colleagues.

Zoom link
Meeting ID: 913 9364 1300 |  Passcode: 979586 

Monthly leadership meetups

We invite all colleagues who are involved in leadership and management to our monthly Leadership meetups. These meetings are aimed specifically at Language Centre managers, and allow colleagues to discuss issues related to managing a Language Centre or Language Department in a small, closed group of peers.

The next meetups will take place on:
7 Mar 17:00-18:00 CET
18 Apr 17:00-18:00 CET
23 May 17:00-18:00 CET
20 Jun 17:00-18:00 CET
Or visit the events calendar for dates.

Zoom link
Meeting ID: 913 9364 1300 |  Passcode: 979586 

News posts: calls, conferences, courses

Please note that we share calls for papers and information regarding courses, conferences and webinars by partner/member institutions on our NEWS page. Current news posts include the following:

An online course in elementary Bangla (Bengali) as a foreign language
Course starts: 1 April 

Postgraduate diploma Language Test Design and Validation (Spain, July 2023)
Pre-registration until: 28 Feb 2023

Call for book chapter abstracts: Innovative language teaching practices in higher education in a post-COVID era
Abstract submission deadline: 28 Feb 2023

Symposium: Portfolio als Kompetenzorientierte Prüfungsform (Berlin, 12 Mai)
Einreichung von Abstracts: bis 30. März 2023

Call for Papers: Babel - AFIAL journal
Abstract submission deadline: 31 Mar 2023

Call for Papers: Language for Specific Purposes in Higher Education Conference (Sweden, 8 Sep 2023)
Abstract submission deadline: 31 Mar 2023

International Conference: Terminology - Domain Loss and Gain
KU Leuven, 20-21 April

Hybrid conference: Looking ahead: Developing academics’ and students’ linguistic and intercultural competence for a globalised world
(Poznań, 24-26 May)

XIII Congreso ACLES / ACLES Conference 2023 (Salamanca, 29 Jun-1 Jul)
Abstract submission deadline: 24 Feb 2023 

2023 European Learning Lab & Community Week: Developing Across Differences
(Groningen, 10-15 July)

Send us your news and events

We are happy to share calls for papers, online courses, conferences and other events on our website. Please send us the information, dates, and any documents we can upload to promote your events. 

Scholarships for conferences available

CercleS offers scholarships to researchers, teachers or PhD students who would like to attend conferences. More information and application forms are available on our website in the members' area (Documents and agreements - Scholarships).

Job advertisements

We invite members to please post and share job advertisements for language teachers and directors in language centres in the forum “job advertisements” in the members’ only area. 

Access to LLHE articles via CercleS website

To ensure that all our members have access to the LLHE articles, please see this post for a step-by-step description for accessing the articles via our website. 

With best wishes, 
Your Executive Committee