The board of the Union of Translators of Russia (UTR) has been working diligently on court translation and interpreting issues to resolve lingering areas of concern. At the end of 2023, the Moscow city government supported the board’s initiative to carry out a project to develop and test a regional model for court interpreting in
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On 30 November, the Association of Hungarian Translators and Interpreters (MFTE) hosted FIT Europe’s general meeting in Budapest, welcoming representatives from various European FIT member associations. To kick off the day, our president gave a presentation showcasing the Regional Centre’s work over the past three years, followed by a spirited debate on issues concerning our member
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On 26 October 1989, the Provincial Executive Branch endorsed Law No. 7,843 and created the Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Provincia de Córdoba (CTPPC), a civil nonprofit organisation guided by bylaws. Under this law, the CTPPC’s first location was opened on 19 April 1990, and we began to carry out administrative procedures relating to the institution and the professional
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Argentina’s Colegio de Traductores de la Provincia de Santa Fe, first division (CTPSFPC) is seeking to permanently strengthen its ties with the educational institutions that train our translators and interpreters, believing that such ties provide many advantages. It is essential that students understand what a professional association can do for them when they graduate; in
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Every year, the Colegio de Traductores Públicos de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires (CTPCBA) asks its members to work together pro bono on committees that, among other activities, work to defend the duties of sworn translators. In addition to language-specific committees, the CTPCBA is organised into subject-based committees covering a range of topics that are
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On 30 September 2024, Alan Melby, Chair of the FIT Standards Standing Committee, represented FIT at the AMTA conference in Chicago, Illinois. AMTA is an MT conference that brings together researchers, users, and providers of MT from academia, industry, and government. When he asked conference organisers if they had chosen 30 September for its significance within
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Between 2 and 4 October 2024, CEATL, the European Council of Literary Translators’ Associations, organised the first-ever European Conference on Literary Translation, as part of the programming in Strasbourg as UNESCO’s World Book Capital for 2024. FIT and FIT Europe were partners in the event, and Sandra Mouton, from FIT Europe, and Jan Naess, from FIT
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On 17 October 2024, the Central American Regional Group held its second event. It was organised by the Asociación Guatemalteca de Intérpretes y Traductores (AGIT) with the support of our FIT LatAm Regional Centre, in line with the Viña del Mar Declaration, with the aim of sharing success stories about the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in
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The Asociación Panameña de Traductores e Intérpretes (APTI) has selected the inaugural recipient of the new Doctora Etilvia Arjona Chang Medal, a recognition created to honour APTI’s founder, who made history as the only Latin American to have received FIT’s prestigious Pierre-François Caillé Medal in Tampere, Finland in 2005. This new award aims to continue her legacy
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On the occasion of this year’s International Translation Day (ITD), the Translators Association of China (TAC), in collaboration with the Embassy of the Netherlands in China and People’s Literature Publishing House, proudly presented an event to celebrate this big day with translators and interpreters around the world. The event featured an in-depth dialogue between renowned
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