Het Vertaalbureau voor de organen van de Europese Unie is een agentschap van de Europese Unie. Het werd in 1994 opgericht in Luxemburg en heeft als voornaamste taak het verstrekken van vertalingen en het verlenen van aanverwante taalkundige diensten aan de andere gedecentraliseerde agentschappen van de EU. Het kan ook ondersteuning bieden aan EU-instellingen en -organen met eigen vertaaldiensten, wanneer die het zelf buitengewoon druk hebben of als het om specifieke projecten gaat. Het Vertaalbureau levert vertalingen aan in totaal bijna zeventig klanten. Eind 2020 werkten er in totaal 220 mensen voor het Vertaalbureau, als ambtenaar, tijdelijk functionaris of arbeidscontractant. MEER WETEN
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.
The Translation Centre was delighted to welcome four new clients to its community in 2023 and 2024: the Joint Research Centre (JRC), the European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC), the Global Health EDCTP3 Joint Undertaking (JU) and the Smart Networks and Services Joint Undertaking (SNS JU).
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Have you heard of IATE (pronounced ‘ee-ah-tay)? If you’re a language professional, you probably have. It’s the terminology database of the European Union and contains more than 7 million terms, making it a reference in the field of terminology and the largest multilingual term database in the world.
Luxembourg was the place to be in the first week of July for language and law students, when 32 of them had the opportunity to take part in the first Multilingualism EU Summer School. They visited the various translation services of the EU institutions, and the Translation Centre was pleased to share its expert knowledge in terminology management as part of this.