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Translating the future: Career prospects in linguistic professions

 Workshop, 16 май 2025 - 16 май 2025, Corfu, Гърция

Thanos Nottas, the Field Officer of DG Translation in Athens gave a speech during the Career Day of the Department of Foreign languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University, giving insights into how to become a translator for EU institutions and how it feels like! (Followed by a great Q&A session with graduate and post-graduate students). Οn the sidelines of the event, students had the opportunity to… Be a translator of DG Translation for 10'… (or as long as they could stand it!). They had a hands-on experience translating a (real) European Commission press release, using all our cutting-edge tools (machine translation, Quest, memories, ticking deadlines, etc.), as a group, through a big central screen.

Venue: "Asklipios" Building, Room 3, Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting (DFLTI), Ionian University. Corfu, Greece (Show On Map)
Target groups:  Language learners Language teachers Students

Organizer: European Commission
Estimated number of participants/people involved: 75
Address: Square Chr. Tsirigoti 7, 49132, Corfu, Гърция
Contact Name: European Commission

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Long live the European Day of Languages/ Vive la Journée européenne des langues

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