The Education Department of the Council of Europe will organise a new series of online workshops in 2022 to further support policy makers who are responsible for language policy and langauge education professionals in the implementation the CEFR Companion volume. There will be nine monthly online workshops which will take place on the first Thursday of each month from between 16.00 and 18.30 CET. CEFR Online Workshop Series 2022 (in English or French, without interpretation) 3 February, Key concepts in the CEFR Companion volume: What might these mean for teaching?, Brian North 3 March, The learner as social agent: implications for curriculum design & classroom practice, Bernd Rüschoff 7 April, Le Volume Complémentaire du CECR: qu'y a-t-il de nouveau pour l'enseignement des langues?, Evelyne Bérard 6 May, The action-oriented approach: From theory to practice, Enrica Piccardo 2 June, Assessing plurilingualism: An example from practice, Belinda Steinhuber 1 September, Taking account of the CEFR Companion Volume in the national and school curriculum, Daniela Fasoglio 6 October, Le Volume complémentaire du CECR : un outil pour la formation des enseignant·e·s de langues étrangères, Rosanna Margonis-Pasinetti 3 November, Mediation in/for the language classroom: learning situations and
formative assessment, Adolfo Sánchez Cuadrado 1 December, Developing CEFR-based assessment rubrics and rating scales for interaction and production, Claudia Harsch Background
Following the publication of the CEFR Companion volume in 2020, the Council of Europe’s Education Department organised monthly Webinars in 2021 to help language professionals familiarise themselves with the key concepts of the CEFR and consider ways for integrating those into teaching and learning practices. Key concepts covered were action-oriented approach, digital agency in social practice and language education, plurilingualism in the classroom and engaging learners’ plurilingual and pluricultural competence, as well as mediation in relation to sign languages. The PowerPoints, video recordings, Classroom materials and Background readings from these workshops are now being made available online at www.coe.int/lang-cefr. | 
