The Translation Centre for the Bodies of the European Union is an agency of the European Union. Established in Luxembourg in 1994, its main mission is to provide translation and related language services to the other decentralised EU agencies. It may also assist those EU institutions and bodies which have their own translation services when there are workload peaks or for specific projects. In total, the Centre translates for almost 70 clients. At the end of 2020, it had a total of 220 staff members, including officials, temporary agents and contract staff. TELL ME MORE
On 11 April, students from the University of the Upper Alsace (Université de Haute Alsace) visited the Translation Centre to find out more about what we do and how they can start navigating their future careers in the fast-changing language services industry.
We’re excited to welcome AMLA (the Anti-Money Laundering Authority) as our 77th client, reinforcing our commitment to supporting the multilingual needs of EU agencies. Through tailored workflows and a mix of AI and human expertise, we provide a wide range of language services. We look forward to supporting AMLA with their critical mission and adapting to their evolving language needs.
Our director recently spoke at the LT4All 2025 conference in Paris. She addressed the conference theme, ‘Advancing Humanism through Language Technologies’, by discussing the role of AI in translation, emphasising that human expertise remains vital for quality assurance. The Translation Centre is proud to support multilingualism through innovative, AI-based language solutions.
Board members gained an understanding of our operations during recent workshops on AI, translation technologies and workflow management held at our premises the day before the latest Management Board meeting. This hands-on experience highlighted how we combine cutting-edge tools with expert linguistic skills to support multilingualism in EU agencies.
This year marks a significant milestone for the European Union as we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the ‘big bang’ enlargement, which introduced nine new languages into the EU arena. Translation Centre Director, Ildikó Horváth, recently attended the KCI conference on 26 September, where she engaged in a lively panel discussion about the transformative changes required in translation and interpretation to support this multilingual landscape.
Translation services of Term Lists and Application Labels in various fields from English into Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Albanian, Bosnian, Icelandic, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Norwegian, Serbian and Turkish.