Report on the IAMLADP UCG Training for Translators’ Trainers seminar (13-14 March, 2024)

In March, 2024, the Universities Contact Group (UCG) of the International Annual Meeting on Language Arrangements, Documentation and Publications (IAMLADP) hosted a Train-the-Trainer event to foster exchange between international organisations (IOs) and universities. Two workshops organised by a team composed of Carmen Peris and Jose Garcia-Verdugo (UNHQ), Doris Hernández (UNOV) and Dragoș Ciobanu (University of Vienna) were held on the 13th and 14th of March. The workshops focussed on (1) the skills sought after in future translators (13 March), and (2) collaboration practices with colleagues, as well as with technology (14 March). Both topics were first explored in small, diverse groups, whose results were then shared and discussed among all the workshop participants.
A total of 59 participants took part: 37 from IOs - the European Commission Directorate-General for Translation (DGT), the European Parliament (EP), the International Labour Organisation (ILO), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Headquarters (UNHQ), the United Nations Office in Vienna (UNOV), the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO), and the World Trade Organisation (WTO) -, and 22 from universities – the University of Vienna (UniVie), the Institute of Intercultural Management and Communication (ISIT), the University of Geneva (UniGe), Herzen University, the University of Salamanca (USAL), and the Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften (ZHAW).