Why Patent and IP Translation Remains a Very Profitable Business
Key content types, main buyers, and long-term demand drivers in patent and IP translation; and how machine translation and MT post-editing impact production. Continue reading
Tag: European Commission
Over Half a Million Pages of Translation per Year Up for Grabs at European Commission
European Commission announces call to tender for the translation of 556,000 pages annually across 49 language pairs. Continue reading
‘So many things you can’t just translate’ — the EU’s Young Translators Come Together
Far corners of European Union reduced to one spot in Brussels as 28 young translators receive their prizes in 12th Juvenes Translatores awarding rites. Continue reading
Europe Celebrates Its 28 Best Young Translators
European Commission announces winners of 12th Juvenes Translatores, the annual competition to find the best young translators from 28 EU Member States. Continue reading
Remote Interpretation Survey Examines Demand, Pricing, and Buyer Behaviour
European Commission funded survey centered around Spain and Italy examines buyer behavior and pricing data and reveals private sector is more open to using video interpreting than public sector. Continue reading
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European Commission Announces Winners in Student Translation Competition
Twenty-eight students from across the European Union win this year’s Juvenes Translatores, the European Commission’s annual translation contest for students. Continue reading
Two of the World’s Biggest Translation Buyers Compare Notes
At the AILIA general meeting in Quebec, Ingemar Strandvik and Stéphan Déry discuss the challenges of running a translation bureau in Europe and Canada. Both leaders agree that they have to... Continue reading
EU Spends Another EUR 2.4m on Translation Research for Digital Single Market
The European Commission issues EUR 2.4m tender for language technology research. The mandate is to look into how the EU’s proprietary machine translation system can be optimized and how language... Continue reading
The Biggest Language Industry Hires of 2016
From newly formed ULG to MotaWord, Cloudwords, thebigword, and RWS's CTi unit, 2016 has seen its fair share of senior appointments in the language industry. Here is a roundup of last year's most... Continue reading
From Brexit to Brazil: Language Industry Stories You May Have Missed in 2016
A roundup of important stories you may have missed in 2016. From the booming German translation market, Canada’s Translation Bureau row, 21 fast-growing language service providers in the US, to... Continue reading
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European Commission Awards EUR 36m Translation Contract to Amplexor
Luxembourg-based Amplexor wins contract against 13 competitors; Chief Sales Officer estimates volume at 200,000 pages annually into and from all official EU languages and points to the challenge... Continue reading
EU Refugee Office Announces EUR 63.5m Interpretation, Cultural Mediation Contract
The European Asylum Support Office opened a request for proposal worth EUR 63.5m for interpretation, interpretation equipment, and so-called cultural mediation. Four-year contract requires... Continue reading
The European Commission Just Killed a EUR-100m Translation Market
The European Parliament adopts Commission's proposal to remove the requirement to provide certified translations of public documents when moving from one EU country to another. The Commission... Continue reading
World’s Largest Interpretation Service Gets New Boss
The EU appoints the current head of Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection, Florika Fink-Hooijer, to the top post at its EUR 117m Directorate General for Interpretation, which services over 11,000... Continue reading
EU to Pay EUR 5.8m for Help in Buying Machine Translation
For its Connecting Europe Facility, EU asks for outside help in acquiring MT tech, building language repository, and buying parallel text corpora; project takes direct aim at EUR 1bn EU... Continue reading
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