Chères et chers collègues,
Je vous souhaite, de la part de l'ensemble du CA de RANACLES, une année 2022 riche et heureuse autant sur le plan personnel que professionnel. Depuis janvier 2020 les rentrées se suivent et ne se ressemblent pas dans leurs difficultés. Mais l'équipe du CA sortant et surtout sa présidente, Annick Rivens Mompéan (sans oublier Anne Chateau, trésorière et Mathilde Arino, Secrétaire Générale, ainsi que tous les autres membres) ont accompli un tel travail que notre association est forte et engagée à vos côtés. Un grand merci à toutes et tous pour ces années de dévouement à la cause associative.

Cet engagement est déjà enclenché de trois manières différentes. Tout d'abord sur Zoom, le 24 janvier prochain à 18h. Ensuite avec la journée régionale à Rouen le 8 avril. Le troisième axe est le séminaire didactique et outils numériques qui se tiendra à Marseille du 8 au 11 juin prochain. Toutes ces actions sont détaillées ci- dessous. D'autres sont dans les tuyaux pour que 2022 soit une belle année pour l'association - le clap de fin sera donné à Nancy au congrès annuel en novembre prochain.

Bonne année, Happy New Year, ¡ Feliz Año Nuevo!, Blwyddyn Newydd Dda, Frohes Neues Jahr, Gelukkig Nieuwjaar, Gleðilegt nýtt ár, Xin Nian Kuai Le, Mutlu yıllar, Sťastný nový, Godt nytår, Hyvää uutta vuotta, Godt nytt år, Szczesliwego Nowego Roku, Feliz Ano Novo, and Lang May Your Lum Reek!
Tom Grainger
Au nom de l'association RANACLES

1. A call to participate in a working group focused on planning a CercleS Peer Training Programme. The working group will be chaired by Mark Critchley (Durham University). The first meeting of the Working Group will be on Friday 21 January 2022, 16:00-17:30 CET (15:00-16:30 GMT). It is anticipated that the WG will meet 3-4 times in total over a 3-month period. Please see the attached information (CercleS Peer Training Programme) for further details. If anyone else is interested in joining this working group, please let us know right away.
   
   
2. The deadline for abstracts for this year's AULC conference has been extended until Wednesday, January 19th 18:00 CET / 17:00 UK time to be fair to those colleagues who are only now coming back from annual leave. Please submit your abstract here. The conference website can been viewed here.
   
   
3. An invitation to all Language Managers/Directors to the January Leadership meeting, which will be dedicated to the topic : “Contribution of CercleS language centres to the ambitions of CercleS internationalisation projects”. We will be sharing some thoughts as to how CercleS member institutions can work with peer language centres in other member institutions to provide language and inter-cultural support towards achievement of our shared ambitions. For more information, please see the attachment (CercleS internationalisation projects). The session will be chaired by Mark Critchley of Durham University and will take place on 18 January 17:00-18:00 CET (16:00-17:00 GMT).
   
   
4. A CercleS online talk by Johann Fischer on 19 January 16:00-18:00 CET about the CEFR Companion Volume implementation toolbox (VITbox). The project will develop tools in various languages to help teacher educators use and disseminate the ideas of the CEFR Companion Volume. It will provide digital documents and examples of inspiring practice in the implementation of the Companion Volume in language learning, teaching and assessment at university and in vocational training. For more information about the project, visit https://www.ecml.at/companionvolumetoolbox.
   The same Zoom link will be used for all three these online meetings :
   https://univ-amu-fr.zoom.us/j/93441637534?pwd=UGZYWTEzNjQ0TVNudjhTRXdtVzE0QT09
   Meeting ID: 934 4163 7534 | Passcode: 287552
   
   
5. 30th anniversary: Call for videos
   On behalf of the CercleS Anniversary working group, we would like to ask you to find recordings, videos of past or recent activities of your association or focus group, and send (a) the link to the video or (b) the video by email (if it is too big to be sent, please use some transfer service, e.g. WeTransfer https://wetransfer.com/) to the address of the General Secretariat: generalsecretariat@cercles.org.
   
   It can be a video of any activity, e.g. workshops, seminars, webinars, classes, projects, meetings, conferences, networking sessions – formally recorded and produced for the purposes of an LC or association promotion, or informally recorded and used for the purposes of memory only. All videos are welcome, both from face-to-face and online activities, however, if you found any that are linked to international activities, it would be ideal. Also, if you decide to record a new video, it would be great as well.
   Deadline : 28 February 2022
   
   
6. Call for papers for LLHE special issue
   Papers are being sought for the LLHE Special Issue 12.2 2022 on Sustainability literacy in language learning and teaching.
   
   For thematic areas, technical guidelines and further information, please visit the NEWS section on the CercleS website (https://cercles.org/2022/01/09/call-for-papers-for-the-llhe-special-issue-12-2-2022-2/).
   Deadline for submissions : 31 January 2022
   
   
7. Call for papers for CercleS conference (Porto)
   The call for papers for the CercleS conference that will take place in Porto, Portugal in September 2022. For more information about the topics and guidelines, please see :
   https://cercles.org/2021/12/08/cercles-conference-2022-call-for-papers/
   Deadline for submissions : 11 February 2022
   
   
8. Report on ECML colloquium
   CercleS as a partner of the European Centre for Modern Languages of the Council of Europe was invited to the colloquium entitled “The future of language education in the light of Covid – lessons learned and ways forward” held on 14th December 2021 and the ECML Professional Network Forum (PNF) meeting held on 15th December 2021. For a brief report on the outcomes of these meetings, please see : https://cercles.org/2022/01/09/report-from-ecml-colloquium/.
   
   
9. Register for the new CercleS website (cercles.org)
   Please remember to register on the website, so that you can access the members' area, which contains information accessible only to members, a forum where you can post job advertisements and other discussion topics, and access to our journal, Language Learning in Higher Education.
   Managers of Language Centres should use this link to register their institution : https://cercles.org/registration/?lid=1
   After institutional registration is completed, please share this link with your staff so that they can create their own profiles: https://cercles.org/registration/. If they register, they will not need to use your login details to access the members' area of the website, but can do so on their own.

32. AKS-conference and pre-conference workshop "Multilingualism experienced as normal: methods and materials for integrating tasks and exercises based on multilingual didactics in teaching German as a foreign language", held digitally by AKS and TU Darmstadt from March 2-4, 2022.

The deadline for applications has been extended until January 31st.