The EU has announced a new into-English translation tender worth EUR 3.5m over 2 years. The bid winner will provide translation services to the Directorate-General for Communications Networks, Content and Technology (DG CONNECT). Continue reading
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With less than a year to go until the United Kingdom bows out of the EU, speculation has been rife about the future of the English language within the EU. Now, the confirmation of the EU budget for 2021 to 2027 has put pay to the idea that English could disappear from the corridors of the European Union institutions. Continue reading
With the ambitious goal of achieving natural language understanding by 2030, research institutions in Europe led by the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence are pushing for the Human Language Project to become an EUR 1bn EU Flagship Project. Continue reading
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The Translation Centre sees a sustained demand for translation from EU agencies and bodies in 2018. But to deliver three-quarters of a million translated pages per year, it relies on extensive outsourcing and technology. Machine translation not yet integrated into production. Continue reading
The call for bids is for four projects involving the translation of legal text, including legal documents of ongoing proceedings, decision of various legal bodies, legal opinion, and other texts that deal with EU or national laws. Continue reading
The European Union’s Irish translator woes continue as demand for Gaelic linguists steadily increase while the Irish language emerges from derogation and into official status come 2022, and yet the in latest hiring round where over 200 candidates applied, only 10 were put in reserve. Continue reading
A new EU regulation requires financial institutions to provide retail investors with information on packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) in their own language by January 2018. Continue reading
A new trade mark regime in Europe simplifies language and translation requirements to cut red tape and lower the cost of filing. New changes that went into effect on October 1, 2017 include streamlined guidelines and procedures for registration fit for the digital age. Continue reading
The Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union spends EUR 26m on staff, outsources more than EUR 13m to external language service providers, and charges between EUR 73 and EUR 147 per page. Continue reading
Six new automated translation projects will receive funding from the EU’s Connecting Europe Facility (CEF) program in the telecommunications sector to improve multilingual support for public sector organizations. Continue reading
The European Union Court of Justice cuts out the middleman in EUR 6m tender directed squarely at freelance translators. Court anchors rate expectations anywhere between 18 cents per word for Polish into English to 7 cents for Lithuanian into English. 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
Overcoming the language barrier is one of the most important roadblocks to the creation of a functional Digital Single Market in Europe. Rapid advances in machine translation based on neural networks hold a key to unlocking e-commerce worth tens of billions of euros. 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
Business owners made USD 55,630, educators, USD 17,344 in 2014 per the latest ATA survey. Meanwhile, the Basque Government ran up an EUR 5.8m translation tab and the EU Court of Justice ruled a Flemish Decree contrary to EU Law. Continue reading
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