09.00

10.00

Registration coffee/tea.

10.00

10.20

Opening of the conference
Introduction Dr Mike Milanovic, ALTE; Frederik Gammeltoft, Head of the Danish Teaching and Testing Division: The Danish Examinations

10.20

11.00

Keynote Jacques Delmoly, The European Commission

11.00

11.20

Coffee break

11.20

11.50

Benny Andersen, poet

11.50

12.30

Professor Anne Holmen, The Danish University of Education
Multilingualism and language standards

12.30

13.30

Lunch
NB: Before lunch deadline for questions to the round table session

13.30

14.30

Nordic Panel: Aligning examinations to the CEFR in the Nordic countries

Ari Huhta (Finland)

Gunlög Sundberg (Sweden)

Berit Halvorsen (Norway)

Else Lindberg (Denmark)

14.30

15.30

Mini presentations

Nick Saville: The CEFR and common standards for international language examinations

Waldemar Martyniuk: Relating Language Examinations to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) – an update on “The Manual Project”

Piet van Avermaet: Multilingual spaces in Europe and the use of CEFR

Professor Cyril Weir: The Common European Framework of Reference: Improving the profiling of writing proficiency levels

15.30

15.50

Coffee break

15.50

16.45

Round table: Principles and Standards in Language Assessment
Nick Saville, Piet van Avermaet, Waldemar Martyniuk,
Cyril Weir,  Anne Holmen

16.45

17.00

End of the Conference day