The European Commission will run its Juvenes Translatores translation contest for the fifth time in 2011!
The contest is organised for 17-year-olds in secondary schools throughout the European Union. They will translate a 1-page text between any 2 languages from among the EU’s 23 official languages. This year the theme of the texts will be "volunteering".
The authors of the best translation from each EU country will be invited to Brussels to receive an award, meet the Commissioner for multilingualism and see how professional EU translators work, and also meet their counterparts from other member states.
Registration now open! Schools can register for the contest 01 September – 20 October 2011.
To register, visit the website: http://ec.europa.eu/translatores/.
To find out more about the competition, and opportunities for students and their teachers in the EU, read ‘A window on careers in languages‘, by Fiona Graham, staff translator at the European Commission… and see the latest issue of our magazine, Languages Today!
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