elc works with the European standards and is thus able to guarantee the extremely high quality of its language training, teacher training and language audits and consultancy.

 The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages – learning, teaching, assessment (CEFR) published by the Council of Europe in 2001, created an entirely new basis for language learning in Europe. Since then it has been translated into many languages and its influence has spread far beyond Europe. For the first time, language competence and competence levels in language were described using a single system. The aim of this description was to encourage educational institutions concerned with the teaching, learning and assessment of language competence to work together within one system, in particular with regard to the measurement of levels of language competence. As national economies become increasingly global and work takes place in many different international language contexts, there is an increasing need for procedures and tools which make it possible to describe the ability to use language at work by means of one set of valid - and truly European - descriptive scales and measurements.