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

1. Time & Location

Oct. 23, Sunday

11: 00 – 14:00

Agia Paraskevi Square

2. Organizers 

Host:  Athens Business Confucius Institute

Co-organizers:  Agia Paraskevi Municipality, Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Greece

3. Agenda

11:00 – 11:30 Opening Ceremony

Host: Mrs Hongwei Yan, Chinese Director of Athens Business Confucius Institute

Mrs Georgia Pispa, President of the Center for the Prevention of Addictions “ARGO” for the municipalities of Papagou – Cholargou- Agia Paraskevi

• Speeches
• Mr. Vassilis Zorbas, Mayor of Agia Paraskevi
• Ambassador Xiao Junzheng, Embassy of the People’s Republic in China in the Hellenic Republic
• Mr. Dionysis Lekkas, Vice Mayor of Education of Agia Paraskevi
• Vice Rector of UIBE (Video)
• Mr. Alexandros Papalexandris, Associate Professor, Co-director of Athens Business Confucius Institute

• Gift Exchanging

• Performance
• Kung Fu Performance
• Chinese Musical Instrument Guzheng Performance
• Chinese – Greek Poem Reading

11:30 – 14:00 Chinese Culture Workshops

• Chinese Painting Workshop

• Chinese Calligraphy Workshop

• Chinese paper cutting \ paper folding workshop

• Chinese language corner

• Tea Tasting & Traditional Chinese Clothes HANFU demonstration

  14:00 – 16:00 Formal Lunch (invited only)

*Bus (for Confucius Institute students and teachers, and kung fu school) will depart from Confucius Institute at 9:00 am, depart from Agia Paraskevi at 14:00 pm (pre-registered only).

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.