Europlain.eu (workingname)

Karine Nicolay – Jan Dekelver

Lisbon | 14 October

Europlain. Eu

A plain language training project

European diploma in plain language

(long history)

...and that’s

when we

decided

to go to

Stockholm

(university)

to meet

students

of their

Plain Swedish

Consultancy

Program

• Ess

Association Swedish certified language consultants

• Språkrådet

Swedish Language Council

We also visited

apply for EU-funding to set up a 1-year-course

on plain communication (language and design)

out of the Lifelong Learning Program

from the European Commission

We left with the idea to

• KHKempen (Belgium)

• Stockholm University (Sweden)

• Reading University (UK)

• Institute of the Estonian Language (Estonia)

• a Portuguese university or Português Claro

= ‘partners’

Together with

• Simon Fraser University (Canada)

• And/or (?)

= ‘3rd country partner’

Together with

• Ess

• International Plain Language Working Group

• a representative from business or public administration

in every country

= ‘associated partners’

Together with

• Ess

• IPLWG

• a representative from business or public administration

in every country

- united in European Plain Language Institute (?)

- paid for expertise + quality control

Together with

More on the course

Suggested workpackages

• before the application: needs analysis

• review state of the art + best practices

• establish the competence profile – learning outcomes (EQF)

• decide what we will teach, teaching methods

• establish admissions criteria, process and test

• make learning materials

• develop e-learing modules and blended learning

• implementation of the course

• promotion, website, conferences, etc.

• quality control

• project management

26th of February

Deadline application

Europees diplomaklare taal

European plain language diploma

Diploma europeu em português claro

graduation 2012

Europskå Klårspråkdiplomå

?