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
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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 address increasing demand, do more with less, and ensure quality compliance. Continue reading
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 technology can accelerate EU’s Digital Single Market in ways that go “beyond simple translation.” Continue reading
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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 important new hires. Continue reading
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 Brits talking Brexit. Continue reading
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 of managing such a contract successfully. Continue reading
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 on-the-ground presence across much of Southern and Eastern Europe. Continue reading
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 estimates the measure will save EUR 75–100m in annual translation spend. Continue reading
Slator is the media partner for the LT Industry Summit 2016. Slator’s Co-Founder, Florian Faes, will host the LT CEO panel on the first day of this two-day summit, which will bring together language technology industry solution providers, clients, research partners, and policy makers. Continue reading
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 meetings each year. Continue reading
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 translation unit. Continue reading
The European Union Commission’s new Online Dispute Resolution comes with an embedded machine translation service. When MT is not enough, the Commission picks up the tab for professional translation. Continue reading
European Commission announces winners of Juvenes Translatores contest. Students turn in entries in 166 language combinations. Winners of the top three most competitive fields speak about linguistic challenges and their take on translation as a profession. Continue reading
What are the legal underpinnings of the European Union’s language regime? A concise summary in ten points by the author of the recently published book “EU Language Law”. Continue reading
The European Commission promotes the Head of the English Language Department to Director of Translation for the Directorate-General for Translation. Continue reading
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