09:00-09:15

Welcome to the conference (Claudine Kirsch, Luxembourg)

09:15-09:30

Introduction (Adelheid Hu, Luxembourg)

09:30-10:30

Developing multilingual pedagogies in early childhood: a review of the project MuLiPEC (Claudine Kirsch, Gabrijela Aleksić, Katja Andersen, Simone Mortini and Laurence Di Letizia, Luxembourg)

10:30-11:00

Coffee break

11:00-11:30

Children’s multilingual agency through translanguaging practices (Simone Mortini, Luxembourg)

11:30-12:00

Language policies in early childhood education in Luxembourg: An overview of recent developments (Claudia Seele, Germany)

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-13:30

A professional development course in translanguaging: challenges and opportunities (Gabrijela Aleksić and Džoen Bebić-Crestany, Luxembourg)

13:30-14:00

Dynamics in participant and language roles in bilingual team teaching in Finnish preschool classroom (Karita Mård-Miettinen and Åsa Palviainen, Finland)

14:00-14:15

Coffee break

14:15-14:45

Challenges and issues for language, literacy and multilingualism in early childhood teacher education (Gunhild Tomter Alstad, Norway)

14:45-15:15

Multilingual interpretations: implications for mediating picturebook read alouds (Sandie Mourão, Portugal)

15:15-15:45

Coffee break

15:45-16:15

The role of parents in the sustainability of bi/plurilingualism from home to ECEC contexts: are language awareness activities the answer? (Christine Hélot, France)

16:15-17:00

Panel discussion

17:00

Vin d’honneur