POOLS arranges a joint language teacher conference
Invitation to participate in a joint language teaching projects conference

If you are a project coordinator (or have some interesting language teaching ideas to present) then please consider presenting at a language teaching projects results conference in September 2007.

Many projects have planned a final conference (some even call for a press meeting;-) and find that the number of participants from outside the project teams is rather limited (to say the least). The solution to this is to cluster with other projects and have a joint conference.

Imagine that five projects have a joint conference; the project teams would get together approximately 100 participants and the combined dissemination efforts are likely to attract another 100 participants, i.e. a prospect of 200 participants keen on learning about your results!

POOLS now offers you such an opportunity in September 2007 in Alkmaar, a beautiful city in the Netherlands. The dates for the conference are set to September 27th and 28th . Learn about Alkmaar here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alkmaar or from the homepage of Alkmaar: http://www.alkmaar.nl/

The Horizon college in Alkmaar offers its facilities to the conference with possible meeting rooms the day before and after the conference (Wednesday and Saturday); this makes it possible for you to move a project meeting to Alkmaar and thus cover the travel costs. If you are having an EU-supported project then please remember to ask your national agency or the Education, Audiovisual & Culture Executive Agency (http://eacea.cec.eu.int/static/index.htm ) for eligibility of the costs.

All language teaching projects are welcome to participate and are also welcome to assist us in planning and disseminating the event. If you are interested then please e-mail ka@ots.dk before February 1st after this date we might have to say no to some projects because we “only” have conference space for approximately 200 participants.

We also welcome presentations from individual teachers. We are planning a format for proposals and a panel to decide which presentations to accept, more about this in the coming months.

Costs: We plan to make a low cost conference to take place in a college with no profits whatsoever. Participation as such will be free, but we want to include social events like a conference dinner at the college with everything pre-paid. We have made an arrangement with a nearby quality hotel which offers single rooms with breakfast for 55EUR per night, but cheaper lodgings are also available.