Year: 2017

Registration for the EULITA conference entitled “Status and Recognition of Legal Interpreters and Translators Today” to be held in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 16-17 March 2018 is now open and runs until 2 March 2018. The online registration form along with a preliminary outline of the conference programme and practical information can be found here: Registration...

EULITA has given its position on two roadmaps published by the Directorate-General for Justice and Consumers: Ares(2017)5430278: Evaluation of the 2011-2020 European judicial training strategy Ares(2017)5432247: Ensuring Justice in the EU – a Strategy for European Judicial Training 2019-2025 You can read EULITA’s comments here.

EULITA, in cooperation with the Bulgarian association AIT, organizes a conference on the “Status and Recognition of Legal Interpreters and Translators Today” in Sofia, Bulgaria, on 16 and 17 March 2018, followed by the annual general assembly on 17 March 2018. You can find the Call for Papers here. Contributors are requested to send abstracts...

We have received the following press release from our Luxembourg member: "Pour la deuxième année consécutive, l’Association luxembourgeoise des traducteurs et interprètes (ALTI) a organisé une conférence professionnelle consacrée aux métiers de la traduction et de l’interprétation à l’occasion de la Journée internationale de la traduction, désormais reconnue par les Nations Unies. Près de 70...

On 29 September 2017, the German Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators (BDÜ) awarded the annual Hieronymus Prize 2017 for exemplary achievements in the field of multilingual communication during its festivities on the occasion of International Translation Day in Erfurt, Germany. This year, the award was bestowed upon the International Criminal Tribunal for the former...

From 3-5 August 2017, the FIT World Congress 2017 entitled „Disruption and Diversification“ was held in Brisbane, Australia, bringing together translators, interpreters and other stakeholders of the industry from all over the world and addressing the rate of technological change within the industry and the current challenges it provides for practitioners and clients alike. Being unable to attend this extraordinary event herself, EULITA President Daniela Amodeo Perillo instead sent her best wishes to our colleagues of FIT in Brisbane, which you can read below:

The EU-funded project for a European pilot database of legal interpreters and translators was published a few weeks ago and can be accessed here.

On 24 May 2017 the 71st Session of the United Nations General Assembly unanimously adopted Resolution A/71/L.68 recognising the role of professional translation in connecting nations, and fostering peace, understanding and development. In the same resolution, 30 September was declared UN International Translation Day to be celebrated across the entire UN network, thus recognising the crucial role of professional translation and interpretation in international communication and international affairs.

One of the essential, although trite ways of letting people understand Europe is to allow them to understand each other.

The role of translators and interpreters in general is to make this mutual understanding easier; that of legal interpreters and translators in particular has an added value: to allow our European society to have a better justice.

The presentations shown at the Translating Europe Workshop and the EULITA Conference in Vienna on 30-31 March 2017 are now available online. You can find them under "LIT materials" in the left-hand margin of this website or simply follow these links:

Translating Europe Workshop: http://www.eulita.eu/node/772
EULITA Conference: http://www.eulita.eu/node/771