CITS MA Students’ Online Study Visit to the EU Institutions: the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission

On June 19, MA students of the Caspian Higher School of Interpreting and Translation took part in an online meeting with representatives of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission.

The meeting was attended by active translators of the Directorate-General for Translation and by a large number of students from different countries and universities. During the three-hour meeting, MA students were given a virtual tour and learned about the work of the Directorate, as well as special websites, tools, and methods of translation. The translators also showed their working process during translation of documents. In addition, CITS MA students learned a lot about working with the terminology base of the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission, and about difficulties and new challenges of working with terminology in a constantly changing world. And, of course, the students were told how to get a job in the Directorate-General for Translation– as a full-time employee or a freelancer.

Naturally, the participants of the meeting had the opportunity to ask questions to which they received detailed answers: the translators explained to the students all the aspects of the Directorate-General’s work that were of interest to them, shared useful information and links to websites that could help prepare for the Directorate-General’s employment exam and answered a variety of questions related to the intricacies of translation.