Skills and competences required in

1

• Skills and competences required in
• the language-related industries and
• professions

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Overview

• the economic and political context and the HE
  context of the TNP
• the language-related industries and professions
• selected aims of TNP3
• the TNP3 Synthesis Report for Sub-Project 1 and
  the Consultation findings
• local issues highlighted in the regional
  synthesis report for DE, PL and RO
• discussion points for the panel

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The economic and political context

• Economic, political and societal developments
• globalisation and internationalisation
• increasing corporate mergers
• increasing labour mobility in the EU
• EU enlargement
• need for experts in the new member state
  languages
• spread of English as a lingua franca
• rapid technological change

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The HE context

• The Bologna Declaration .. the undergraduate
  cycle
• shall qualify students for employment ..
• Questions with regard to undergraduate
  programmes
• how to combine generic academic skills and
  competences, language skills and competences, and
  subject skills in translation and interpreting?
• how much focus on profession-specific skills in
  1st cycle?
• how much focus on management skills?
• language competence C2 in first language, C1 in
  second, and C1/B2 in third?

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The language-related industries and
professions

• translation and interpreting
• technical documentation, terminology work
• software and website localisation, revision and
  editing, language-related database management
• translation for dubbing, voice-over, subtitling
• language-related activities in business
  communication, PR, marketing

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Selected key aims of TNP3

• to encourage higher education institutions to
  gear learning outcomes, content and quantity of
  course provision to identified student needs
• to arrange a structured dialogue between HE
  institutions and the professions about changing
  linguistic and intercultural needs in the
  European labour market
• to create a permanent network to facilitate this
  dialogue

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The TNP3 Synthesis Report

• a growing demand for translation and interpreting
  services in general
• increasing demand for specialist translators in
  law, finance, and technical translation
• increasing demand in the markets for multilingual
  content authoring and content localisation, and
  event management
• expansion of the use of IT language tools and
  machine translation software and bilingual or
  multilingual terminology resources

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The TNP3 Consultation

• Graduates believe they need more
• practical experience gained through work
  placements and real-life tasks in class
• focus on terminology and specialist areas in
  university coursework
• management skills
• training in the new technologies
• preparation for professional life

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The TNP3 Consultation

• From graduates, employers want more
• domain-specific knowledge and knowledge of
  terminology
• competence in their mother tongue and foreign
  language(s)
• IT competence
• understanding of the business context
• precision

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Synthesis Report for the East European Region

• National report updates received from three
  countries
• Germany, Poland and Romania
• Germany trade-related rise in the need for
  language-industry services?
• Poland emergence of relatively new jobs in which
  knowledge of foreign languages and the new
  technologies is essential
• Romania increase in the demand for specialised
  translation and interpreting services

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New specialised HE programmes

• Germany
• BA in Translation Studies for Information
  Technologies (University of Heidelberg
  Mannheim University of Applied Sciences)
• BA in International Professional Communication in
  technical editing and technical translation in
  industry and commerce (Flensburg University of
  Applied Sciences)

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New specialised HE programmes

• Poland
• Post-diploma programmes at the Department of
• Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University
• European Masters in Conference Interpreting
• Study of Interpreting (focusing on legal
  translation)

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New specialised HE programmes

• Romania
• Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca new
• specialisations in the
• MA Translation programme for reviser-translators,
  audio-visual translators and legal translators
• MA Interpreting programme

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Consultation between HE and employers

• Germany Transforum, The German Institute for
  Terminology, the German Association for Technical
  Communication and Information Development, etc.
• Poland conferences involving HE institutions,
  employers, professional associations and alumni
  associations student placements
• Romania colloquia on the new language
  professions and through the channels of
  employers organisations and professional
  associations, such as the Association of Romanian
  Translators

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Discussion points for the panel

• HE-employers forms of structured dialogue,
  collaboration and consultation / in existence /
  desirable and practicable
• trends in the language-related industries and
  professions
• changes in the East European region
• language and non-language skills and competences
  required for the language industries and
  professions
• employment prospects for 1st-cycle graduates
• relationship between changes in the language
  industries and professions and HE course
  provision
• forms of professional involvement in HE