Instead of drawing your attention to an interesting article or study today, I would like to invite you all to a seminar devoted to CLIL in primary and secondary education. This seminar will be held on 28^th April, in the Verlooyzaal, Oudstrijderslaan 200, 1140 Brussel-Evere. Schools and other people interested in CLIL, how it really works and how to implement it, are more then welcome to come.

After a word of welcome by Marc Maes, Piet Van de Craen, a famous expert on CLIL from the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, will start the day with a discourse on CLIL in Brussels, Wallonia, Flanders and Europe. Next a presentation by Gerda Calders, who is one of the key figures in the implementation of CLIL in Brussels and principal of the school group Brussels, will be given. After a coffee break, Bram Moors and Dirk Geeroms, from the secondary school in Dilsen will share experience with the implementation of CLIL in their school. Moving from this “in the field” experience to a more “top-down” view, the views of the Ministry of Education will be presented by Katrien Mondt. After enjoying the lunch that will be provided, this seminar will continue with the presentation of Sera De Vriendt and Marie-Jearnne De Vriendt, affiliated with the Vrije Universtiteit Brussel and the Université libre de Bruxelles, on the implementation of CLIL in secondary education. Marie-Thérese Boyen, principal of the Hotelschool Hasselt, will give a presentation on her experiences with the implementation of CLIL in the technical secondary education school she runs. Inspiration and ideas for the future when CLIL will be hopefully more applied can be found in the presentation of Onno Van Wilgenburg from the European Platform in the Netherlands, who will discuss how the follow up, evaluation and assurance of quality of CLIL in the Netherlands is done. The meeting will end with a conclusion of Rita De Boeck, who is the pedagogic advisor of the primary education schools of GO!, followed with a drink. There will be enough time for questions and to raise other concerns after every presentation.

For those of you who are interested of coming to this very interesting seminar can mail to sgr8.boco@g-o.be . Please mention if you will be staying for the lunch. I hope to see you all there!