European Language Industry Survey 2022 draws over 1,300 respondents from LSPs, linguists, buyers. Stakeholders weigh in on talent-engagement trends, machine translation, data-for-AI, RSI, and more.
European Commission celebrates 27 young translators in 15th edition of annual translation contest; winning students encouraged to pursue future in translation.
Genoveva Ruiz Calavera reflects back on her first year as EC's Director-General for Interpretation, from transitioning out of the pandemic to facilitating the EU’s support of Ukraine.
New survey published by European Commission shows nearly half of SMEs in Europe are still looking to make their websites available in other languages.
European Commission’s half-million-page TRAD19 tender is awarded to 68 language service providers (LSPs). Analysis of top suppliers, price per page, language combinations.
the Translating Europe Workshop Towards Common European GDPR Guidelines for the Translation and Interpreting Profession report sheds light on grey areas of GDPR implementation and compliance in the language services industry
How risky are machine translation and other natural language processing applications? “First AI legislation on the planet” aims to mitigate risk. Violators may face significant fines for breach.
New survey examines how work has changed for over 850 conference interpreters due to Covid-19 pandemic. In short: less work, fewer clients, higher expectations.
Newly appointed Director-General of the DG SCIC on plans to improve conferencing tools, equipment at the European Commission; and reaching out to contract interpreters affected by the pandemic.
European Commission names 27 winners of Juvenes Translatores 2020–2021, who worked on translating ‘eyelids drooping,’ ‘scraped together,’ and other challenging bits from a diary entry from the future.
EUR 34m translation contract covers a whopping 522 possible language combinations for draft text regulations, notifications, and exchanges on a Member State communication system.
European Commission to honor long-term interpreter contracts until December 2020. Parliament continues terminating contracts; sets up paid online learning scheme to soften blow.
Country-based analysis of large-scale survey among European SMEs reveals diverse behaviors and needs of 13 European countries relating to machine translation.
Contract interpreters rally in front of Parliament to draw attention to their dissatisfaction over EU’s offer of a “mitigating measure" as bookings vanished in light of Covid-19.
Survey conducted in line with rollout of European Commission’s machine translation service, eTranslation, reveals attitudes toward MT versus human translation among Europe’s SMEs.
As institutional interpretation work vanishes, auxiliary conference interpreters call EU mitigation offer “unworthy of a public entity.” EU staff interpreters set up emergency solidarity fund.
LSPs and translators hopeful of a demand boost from EU Medical Devices Regulation (EU MDR) must wait a little longer as coronavirus delays application.
University of Bologna at Forlì launches free, open-source, online training platform for remote simultaneous interpreters.
EU offers grants of between EUR 0.2–0.8m to developers of “language tools” and “language resource projects” under the EUR 4m CEF Automated Translation budget.
Ireland and the EU hope their support for Irish education and professional training will pay off with enough Irish translators to allow the EU’s Irish derogation status to expire in 2022.
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