Results of young translators' contest "Juvenes Translatores", Brussels - Main contents
| date | March 10, 2008 |
|---|---|
| city | Brussels, Belgium |
| location | Berlaymontgebouw  |
| attending | L. Orban i et al. |
| organisation | European Commission (EC) i |
Commissioner Orban will award the prizes to the 27 winners of an EU wide young translators' translation contest that took place in November 2007.
As a celebration of multilingualism and to give young Europeans a taste of being a translator, the Commission organised a translation contest, "Juvenes Translatores" (young translators). It challenged 17 year old students to translate short texts on a general subject from one chosen language into another from among the European Union's 23 official languages.
The contest took place simultaneously in all 27 EU Member States where nearly 1 500 students from almost 300 schools were selected to participate.
The 134 different language pairs that the participants have chosen as the languages to translate between (for example, from Polish into Romanian or from Greek into Finnish) cover all 23 official languages of the EU.
The translation contest took place under the supervision of the schools selected for participation. The translations were assessed by a panel consisting of translators from the Commission's Directorate-General for Translation.
Press conference with Commissioner Leonard Orban from 12:30 in the press room, Berlaymont, Brussels.
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Commissioner's website:
http://scic.cec.eu.int/orban/index_en.htm
Translation contest website and list of winners
http://ec.europa.eu/translatores
http://ec.europa.eu/translation/contest/winners_en.htm
Translation DG:
http://ec.europa.eu/dgs/translation
Languages in the EU website
http://europa.eu/abc/european_countries/languages/index_en.htm
European Commission Languages Portal
http://europa.eu/languages/en/home
Pietro Petrucci +32 2 298 94 92 pietro.petrucci@ec.europa.eu
Roger Nunn +32 2 295 36 47 roger.nunn@ec.europa.eu
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