A report on GRDS International Conference held in Lisbon, Portugal, May 2018

GLOBAL PSYCHOLOGY AND LANGUAGE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (GPLRA)

6th ICPLR 2018 - International Conference on Psychology & Language Research (Portugal)

Congress Centre, Tecnico (Universidade de Lisboa), Campus da Alameda, Lisbon, Portugal

This summary captures a two-day programme with presentations, panel discussions and interactive dialogue. Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA) conference is one of the best academic events in Psychology and Language theme, which took place on 24-May- 2018 to 25-May- 2018 at Congress Centre, Tecnico (Universidade de Lisboa), Campus da Alameda, Lisbon, Portugal. The event brought together Participants from countries like Philippines, Poland, Jordan, Thailand, Malaysia, Japan, etc to review and discuss the latest challenges of Language and Psychology Issues. Global Psychology and Language Research Association (GPLRA) is known to have valuable networking opportunity and set the stage for further cooperation among the 
participants of different countries.

The conference began with opening remarks by Honorable Keynote speaker highlighting the main context on Language Issues.

The main aim of this conference was: 

• To discuss latest challenges/researches being faced by the Society regarding Social Issues
• Generating academic and professional relationships
• Boosting morale and confidence of researchers on an international platform
• Networking among the participants
• Providing a holistic experience of academic tourism

The conference is structured in such a way that each participant gets the most from the conference and can cherish the time and efforts that has been invested to attend the conference. The details of this conference are below:- 

Session 1: Welcome and Opening Speech

In the Opening of the conference, Our Honorable Keynote speaker enlightened the participants with her speech about Educational Psychology. Our first Keynote speaker delivered the speech. Following is the glimpse of the conference:-

Marion Hopfgartner

(Speaker, Educationalist, and Writer on educational & the TLI-Paedagogics, Vienna, Austria)

Dr. Suresh Frederick (Plenary Speaker)
(Department of English, Bishop Heber College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu)

Highlighted the context related to Language and Psychology issues relating to Educational Psychology and help us understand the ways to overcome it in a better way. 

Session 2: Team Building Activity 

In order to break the ice between the participants and make them know each other in a better way, Global Research & Development Services conducts a team building activity in every conference. This helps the participants to gel with each other and also serves the purpose of discussing topics which have social, cultural, economic, political, etc importance and possible measures to eradicate such problems. Diversity is the key element of this activity because of which participants get to know about issues of other countries. Participants actively participated and shared ideas about the issues and got a chance for networking and building long-term relationships. This session helped participants to interact with each other and after this, we moved towards our Technical session 3, in which outstanding speeches on outstanding topics were discussed and questions from the audience were addressed:-