This is to warmly invite you to participate in the International Conference entitled CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION TO PROMOTE MULTILINGUALISM AND INTERCULTURAL DIALOGUE.
The event takes place in Iasi - Romania, on 25 â" 26 June 2009, at Unirea Conference Centre (5 Piata Unirii Square) and is jointly organised by EuroEd Foundation (Romania), the Autonomous Learning Language Centre of Navarre (Spain) and QUEST Romania (the Romanian Association for Quality Language Services) under the auspicies of the 9th International Conference of QUEST Romania and the major events of valorisation and dissemination organised within the TOOL (www.toolproject.eu) and ALL (www.allproject.info) (230285-CP-1-RO-Lingua-L2/225782-CP-1-2005-1-ES-Lingua-L1) European projects. The main themes approached by the event are creativity and innovation aimed at promoting multilingualism and intercultural dialogue. The participants will have the opportunity to be informed on the latest information in the fields covered by the conference and to be in direct contact and interact with other specialists sharing the same professional interests. Moreover, the participants will also have the opportunity to promote their projects or initiatives in the field of creativity, innovation, multilingualism and/or intercultural dialogue, either by delivering a presentation at the conference or by organizing a mini-stand in the special âprojects display areaâ that will be available at the conference venue. The event will gather over 100 professionals from over 15 European countries: national and international decision makers, representatives of the European Union and other international bodies, promoters of projects that cover themes that circumscribe to those approached by the conference, representatives of public and private educational community, representatives of minorities organizations in Romania. The keynote speakers that confirmed their participation so far are Mr. Richard Rossner â" EAQUALS Chief Executive (the European association for Quality Language Services), Mr. Michael Carrier â" Head English Language Innovation (British Council) and Mr. Sauli Takala - EALTA President (European Association for Language Testing and Assessment), as well as a representative of the Department for Interethnic Relations of the Romanian Government. We do hope you will accept our invitation to participate in the conference. Please fill in the attached registration form and the call for papers form (if you plan to deliver a presentation or promote a project) and return them via e-mail to the Conference Secretary at andreea.clemi...@euroed.ro by 31st of May 2009. Also, this is to kindly ask for your support in disseminating information about the Conference by forwarding the announcement to colleagues or collaborators that could be potentially interested to participate in the event. Thank you. Yours truly, Dr. Anca Colibaba President, EuroEd Foundation, Romania www.euroed.ro Ovidiu Ursa Vicepresident,QUEST Romania www.quest.ro Aisling OâDonovan Project Manager CNAI, Spain www.webcnai.com
