Supporting excellence, cooperation or research in conference interpreting training 2026-2027
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Programme Name
Programme Description
Actions will support the Parliament’s strategic engagement process in view of the European Elections 2024, including the growth of the together.eu community and the activation of other Parliament’s networks both at local and headquarters levels
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Summary
As a provider of interpretation services in the European Parliament, and increasingly to other EU institutions and bodies, the mission of the Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences is to ensure that a sufficient number of qualified conference interpreters are available to enable the EU institutions and bodies to function properly in a context of linguistic diversity including at regular events, all over the world, where wide language cover is required.
Detailed Call Description
Under the principle of subsidiarity, Member States have the obligation to provide the necessary training. The European Parliament identifies the language combinations and skills that best match its needs, and assists universities in training high quality conference interpreters within these priority combinations.
The programme contributes to this mission by supporting the following actions in the field of interpretation:
- Integration of modern information and communication technologies in the training of conference interpreters.
- Cooperation among postgraduate courses from different European, candidate and third countries offering relevant language combinations.
- Regional cooperation among universities with complementary language regimes.
- The establishment of postgraduate centres of excellence and/or research.
Scope:
- Higher Education Institutions, Universities, university institutes, consortia and associations of universities or institutes, which offer or coordinate postgraduate courses specialising in conference interpreting.
- Associations, consortia and bodies, whose main mission is to support cooperation and disseminate best practices in the field of worldwide conference interpreter training.
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Financing percentage by EU or other bodies / Level of Subsidy or Loan
The European Parliament’s maximum rate of funding is 75% of total eligible costs.
Thematic Categories
- Education and training
- Information and Communication Technologies
- Research, Technological Development and Innovation
Eligibility for Participation
- Educational Institutions
- Legal Entities
- Non Profit Organisations
- Other Beneficiaries
- Researchers/Research Centers/Institutions
- Training Centres
Eligibility For Participation Notes
- Higher-Education Institutions, Universities, university institutes, consortia and associations of universities or institutes, which offer or coordinate postgraduate courses specialising in conference interpreting.
- Associations, consortia and bodies, whose main mission is to support cooperation and disseminate best practices in the field of worldwide conference interpreter training.
- For topic 3 only Higher-Education Institutions, Universities, university institutes, consortia and associations of universities or institutes offering or coordinating master, postgraduate courses or bachelor conference interpreting courses in Ukrainian, Montenegrin and Albanian.
Teaching establishments must be approved by their national authorities as public or private bodies charged with a public task of teaching and organising courses at master or postgraduate level in the field of conference interpreting. If the applicant is not a teaching establishment, its mission must nevertheless be aligned with the objectives of this programme and be recognised by the national authorities where it is established.