European Commission

Activity: Visiting an External InstitutionVisiting an external organisation

Description

Visit to European Commission

The Office of the European Commission in Scotland organised annual visits to Brussels for different stakeholders from Scotland in order for them to learn from and engage directly with EC's desk officers in charge of developing various EU policies.

For this event, the EC invited language leads from a range of Scottish stakeholder organisations to participate in the event.

Scope of the visit: For participants to engage directly with the EC and learn about education policies in the EU, as well as how the EC's translation and interpreting services work. To help inform participants about where language learning sits in the wider EU context

Period18 Sept 201720 Sept 2017
VisitingEuropean Commission
Degree of RecognitionInternational

Keywords

  • European Commission
  • EU policies
  • Language learning and teaching
  • language policy & planning
  • Translation
  • interpreting