Registration for the first International Chinese Language Teachers' Certificate Examination 2023 is underway!

New special teacher examination course at Athens Business Confucius Institute!

The Certificate for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages (CTCSOL) is a standardized examination organized by the Centre for Sino-foreign Language Exchange and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. The certificate is a priority requirement for overseas Confucius Institutes in recruiting Chinese language teachers; a reference for schools and educational institutions at home and abroad in selecting and evaluating Chinese language teachers; and a reference for evaluating the level of teachers and teaching capabilities of international Chinese teaching institutions.

Confucius Institute for Business in Athens, located in Athens, was established in 2009 and is the first Confucius Institute in Greece and the first Confucius Institute for Business in Europe. Over the past fourteen years, the Confucius Institute has graduated more than 3,000 students and constantly offers more than 10 courses every year, making it a model of Chinese language teaching in Greece.

As the only exam center in Greece officially authorized by HECI for the International Chinese Language Teachers' Certificate, this year for the first time, wehave set up a"General Version" of the exam training for Chinese. This year, for the first time in Greece, we have set up a training session for the "General Version" of the exam for Chinese speakers.

SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2023

SUNDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2023

Next available HSK Exam Date: HSK:

SUNDAY, JUNE 11, 2023

Important Notices/Instructions

• Registration for the HSK Exams (All Levels) taking place on Sunday, June 11, 2023 opens at 7:00 a.m. on April 15, 2023; continuous registration is available through May 15, 2023, at 11:59 p.m. (Beijing Time).
• Make sure to register during the official registration period, because only then will you be guaranteed a place in the exam(s).
• Those who wish to take the HSK Written Examinations have to complete all the required steps of the application process within the stipulated deadline, because only then will you be guaranteed a place in the exam(s).
• Τhe deadline for submitting the electronic application for participation in the HSK Exams (15-05-2023, at 11:59 pm, Beijing time) applies to all actions required by the candidate. That is, before submitting the application, the candidate must have completed the payment process of the fee for the corresponding level of examination and submitted his electronic registration.
• For direct deposit and web/phone banking:

Bank Name:                National Bank of Greece

Account holder:         OPA / ELKE / Business Confucius Institute of Athens

Account Number:     110 / 4 8015 124

IBAN:                           GR20 0110 1100 0000 1104 8015 124

Transaction Purpose: The name of the examinee & HSK Level

• Registration is only available through chinesetest.cn.
• For the registration procedure, fees, regulations and sample exam papers, visit our webpage. Please check out our FAQs to see if any of them answer your question. If the FAQs do not answer your question or if you need additional support, please This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Athens Business Confucius Institute is currently the first and only official test centre in Greece for the CTCSOL Teacher’s Certificate.

What is CTCSOL?

The CTCSOL (Certificate for Teachers of Chinese to Speakers of Other Languages) test is an international standardized test sponsored by the Chinese-Foreign Language Exchange and Cooperation Center of the Ministry of Education to assess candidates as Chinese language teachers internationally in the following five domains:

• Basics in Chinese Language Teaching
• Chinese Language Teaching Methodology
• Instructional Design and Classroom Management
• Chinese Culture and Cross-cultural Communication
• Professional Ethics and Disciplinary Development

We would like to inform you that registration and payment for the HSK Exams (All Levels 1-6, Version 2.0) taking place on Sunday, December 4, 2022 opens at 7:00 a.m. on October 07, 2022; continuous registration is available through November 07, 2022, at 11:59 p.m. (Beijing Time).

The written HSK tests are standardized tests that assess a person's language proficiency of the Chinese as a foreign/secondary language and are available at all levels.

In the table below, you will find the Test date, the Registration date, the Results’ date and the Certificate receipt date for the upcoming 2022 written HSK test date.