Brussels urges universities to offer translation courses

The European Commission has launched a new drive to encourage more European universities to offer high-quality courses for students who want to work as translators. As part of this, the Commission is expanding its 'European Master's in Translation' (EMT) university network, which was set up in 2009 in response to a growing shortage of properly qualified translators in the job market.

As well as being a network, the EMT is a recognised quality label. To date, 34 European universities have successfully applied to join the network. Universities wishing to use the EMT label have their courses assessed by translation experts, who are mostly members of the existing network. The EMT network met for its annual conference in Brussels from 11-13 October 2010.

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European Commission: Press Release: IP/10/1314: Commission wants more universities to offer courses for translators http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/10/1314&format=PDF&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

European Commission: DG Translation: Programmes: European Master's in Translation (EMT) http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation/programmes/emt/index_en.htm

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