The ECSPM organised the BEYOND LANGUAGE BARRIERS Symposium, in Athens Greece, on 1 December 2017. The Symposium programme is here. It was hosted by the Hellenic Open University and generously sponsored both by the Hellenic Open University and the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. At the first assembly of the ECSPM on 2 December 2017 ECSPM Executive Committee was elected.