Sunday 17 April 2011

Soirée professionnelle de l'Association internationale des interprètes de conférence (Paris, 2 avril 2011)

La représentation de la pièce de théâtre de David Lescot, L'Européenne, a été suivie d'un débat à l'occasion duquel Christian Tremblay, président de l'OEP, a présenté le projet CELAN. Il a notamment souligné la petite "révolution copernicienne" opérée par le rapport ELAN, suivi du rapport "Davignon" et de la communication de la commission européenne de 2008 "multilinguisme : un atout pour l'Europe et un engagement commun" dans la manière d'approcher la question des langues dans l'économie. Le projet CELAN en est le prolongement.

Thursday 14 April 2011

On-line questionnaire on lingusitic needs of enterprises

Are you an enterprise or a business organisation?
Did you ever think about languages as a business asset?
Do you have specific linguistic needs? Or don't you know?
Help us in defining YOUR NEEDS and fill in the QUESTIONNAIRE - it takes only a few minutes! You can select between English, French, German, Italian and Spanish version!
This is an on-line version, to make your contribution even easier and quicker!

Business Platform for Multilingualism Plenary

On 11 April 2011, the members of the Business Platform for Multilingualism held their 5th plenary meeting. Keynote speaker Pierre Mairesse, Director at DG EAC, underlined that access to the labour market is a priority, in particular for the youth, and that multilingualism is an important success factor. The platform members, representatives from business organisations, trade unions, language interest groups and language professionals, discussed about the next steps, amongst them a more transversal approach to languages, and the acceptance of linguistic knowledge acquired informally or non-formally. The platform will issue a report by mid-June that will give an overview on achievements so far and recommendations for the future until 2013.

Thursday 7 April 2011

DG InfSo/Language Technologies links to CELAN

The News section of DG Information Society - Language Technologies links to the CELAN project.
Visit the website and get interesting information about language technology projects, news on events and open calls.