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The annual meeting of the ETPG, or European Test Publishers Group, took place on 10-12 May. This time we met in Vienna, in the Steinsberger Hotel located in the city's historic centre. The Laboratory was, as usual, represented by Aleksandra Jaworowska and Joanna Stańczak. The main topic of this year's discussions was the future of ETPG.

Intelligence and Development Scales for Children Aged 5-10 were published by the Laboratory in 2013. For the three subsequent years popularity of the tool has grown and now we can say that it is commonly used by the psychologists who diagnose chilldren of early pre-school age.  What undoubtly helped to popularize IDS was numerous training sessions organized throughout Poland by the Authors of the Polish adaptation in which participated approx. 1000 psychologists.

It was our second visit at the University of Vilnius which once more invited us to deliver lectures within the framework of the European Erasmus + programme.

This time it was Joanna Stanczak who came to Lithuania to meet students and researchers in Vilnius. The lectures she delivered were devoted to creation and adaptation of psychological tests, copyright  observance as well as rules for the appropriate selection of diagnostic tools in relation to the examination purpose. The audience was also interested in the Laboratory itself, its history and mission as well as everyday functioning.

This is another stage of our co-operation with the Vilnius psychologists. The first stage was Lithuanian adaptation of the Children's Development Scale DSR. In 2015 our colleague Diana Fecenec was invited as a lecturer to Vilnius.

The second national conference “Science and management” organized by the Chair of Work and Organization Psychology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań will be held under Laboratory's patronage. The aim of the conference is to create common space for the exchange of knowledge and experience between academic researchers and practitioners in business and management.