Full Member

Who can be a full member?

Language teachers associations or federations of language teacher associations based in the European Union or other countries participating in the EU’s Lifelong Learning Programme:

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey and the United Kingdom.

Eligible members of REAL are associations and federations:

• of foreign language teachers of foreign languages, second languages and first language;
• of primary and secondary school language teachers;
• of higher education language teachers;
• of adult education teachers;
• of public and private language centre teachers;
• of interpreters and translators;
• involved in linguistics.

Why join?

• Help create a community of language teachers across Europe;
• Work to influence language policy across Europe;
• Keep yourself fully informed about European policy and proposals;
• Gain access to a wider range of opportunities for training, networking and access to resources for European language teachers;
• Form a powerful body eligible to apply for European and other funding.

What are the benefits?

• Promote your associations’ activities by posting articles on our website*;
• Debate and share know-how on our online forum (opening soon!);
• Access online resources for association leaders and language teachers;
• Get discounted delegate rates at our future European seminars (2012+);
• Special discounts on REAL Corporate member resources;
• Receive our regular newsletter*;
• Full access rights to all data within our online directory;
• Participate in projects and initiatives launched by the Network*;
• Contribute to position papers on European and member state linguistic policy*;
• Full voting rights at the Annual General Meeting*.

* National federations are only entitled to the benefits marked with an asterisk above.

How much does it cost?

Sliding scale

The annual subscription fee to join REAL is on a sliding scale to ensure that as many associations as possible can be part of the network regardless of their financial resources.

The subscription fee is calculated according to:

• the level of purchasing power parity in the country in which the association is registered;
• the total number of members within the association or federation.

Three different full members

Three different types of fee level depending on the type of language teacher association in question.

1) Associations

These are independent associations, for example: ‘Swiss Association of Japanese Teachers’.

2) National Federations

These are national federations of language teacher associations, for example: ‘Maltese Federation of Language Teacher Associations’.

3) Association part of a national federation subscribing to REAL

These are associations who are part of a federation which has already subscribed to REAL and so benefit from a discounted rate, for example: ‘Maltese Association of Russian Teachers’ which is part of the ‘Maltese Federation of Language Teacher Associations’.

Work out your subscription fee using the calculator below**: