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CIUTI Congress in Madrid 2025

The annual congress of the Conférence Internationale Permanente D'Instituts Universitaires de Traducteurs et Interprètes (CIUTI) took place on May 20 and 21, 2025. It was hosted by the Universidad Pontificia Comillas in Madrid. Prof. Dr. Christoph Rösener took part in the event as a representative of the Department 06 of Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim.

CIUTI is an association of international universities with degree courses in translation and interpreting. The aim of the members is to harmonize the quality standards in the training of translators and interpreters on an international level and to guarantee a high-quality education, both in practice and in translation research. Faculty 06 in Germersheim - then still known as the Foreign and Interpreting Institute - is a founding member of CIUTI.

Under the theme “Language Mediation in Flux: Assessing the Impact of Generative AI”, the CIUTI Conference 2025 opened the conversation on questions and challenges regarding generative artificial intelligence that the translation industry has encountered in recent years and continues to face. Speakers from around the world gave presentations on various aspects of the changing profession, including changes in the training of translators and interpreters, quality evaluation of AI-generated texts and ethical standards in dealing with artificial intelligence.

The winner of the CIUTI MA Prize 2024, which honors outstanding theses, was Rebecca Cramp from Macquarie University in Sydney for her thesis "‘Bismillah ar-Rahman ar-Raheem’ - What did the Sheikh say? Challenges for Auslan-English interpreters rendering code-switching in Arabic-English Islamic source texts". The Department 06 is proud of its alumna Francesca Lampe, whose thesis “Intelligibility optimization of texts using ChatGPT” was honored with a special mention during the award ceremony. The thesis “Interpretazione di conferenza e IA: Studio sperimentale su Sight-Terp e la consecutiva assistita” by Michele Restuccia (Università di Trieste) also received a special mention.

CIUTI MA Preisträger

Link to the conference program

Link to the CIUTI website

CIUTI Konferenz 2025 ind en Reihen

CIUTI Short Video Contest 2025 – The Power of Human Translation and Interpreting in the Age of AI

CIUTI Short Video Contest 2025
The Power of Human Translation and Interpreting in the Age of AI

CIUTI Poster

CIUTI QR Code

Who Can Enter
Current Bachelor’s, Master’s (including MTI), and Doctoral students at CIUTI member institutions.

How to Enter

Create an original video (≤ 2 minutes) on the contest theme.
Upload to YouTube or Bilibili (set visibility to Unlisted).
Complete the entry form by September 15, 2025, 23:59 UTC: click here or scan the QR code.

Prizes

1st Place: €250
2nd Place: €150
3rd Place: €100
Honorable Mentions (4th–10th): €50 each

Key Dates

September 15, 2025: Submission deadline
September 16–30, 2025: Judging period
October 1–21, 2025: Public voting (by “likes”)
October 31, 2025: Results announcement

For full rules and guidelines, please see Contest Rules & Submission Guidelines.

Video link

tekom Jahrestagung 2023

It's almost time for Europe's largest conference for technical communication: The tekom annual conference will take place at the ICS of Messe Stuttgart from November 5 to 7, 2024.

At the world's largest industry event with the parallel tcworld conference and tekom trade fair, everything to do with technical communication is on offer - and much more!

The complete program is available here.

The conference offers students and graduates in particular the opportunity to gain knowledge, acquire skills, gain new ideas, discuss topics and make contacts. The careerHUB provides many opportunities to gain professional orientation, write a thesis in cooperation with a company or even find a permanent position.

Admission to the trade fair is free for students, as long as they have a tekom membership (free registration). Students can also purchase discounted tickets to the conference.

More information about the conference and the ticket store can be found here.

Membership of the "European Master’s of Translation" (EMT) network

tekom Jahrestagung 2024 (Quelle: https://jahrestagung.tekom.de/)
In September 2023, the European Union launched a call for applications for membership of the "European Master's of Translation" (EMT) network. The EMT network is a partnership project between the European Commission and higher education institutions that offer Master's degree programs in translation.

The EMT label is a certification for Master's degree programs in translation. The Directorate-General for Translation awards this label to higher education programs that meet jointly agreed professional standards and market requirements.

The selected programs become members of the EMT network. Only universities belonging to the EMT network are entitled to use the EMT label (a registered EU trademark).

A team led by Prof. Dr. Christoph Rösener (Department of General and Applied Linguistics and Translation Technology (ASTT)) prepared the application and submitted the application for the Master's degree course in Translation with a total of four specializations (1. Specialist Interpreting - Social, Medical, Legal, 2. Specialist Translation, Language Management and Artificial Intelligence, 3. Conference Interpreting, 4. Translation - Literature, Media, Culture) in December. The application was approved in June 2024 after a thorough review. For the period 2024-2029, the Master's degree program Translation of the Faculty 06 Translation, Linguistics and Cultural Studies in Germersheim is thus an official member of the "European Master's of Translation" network.

For further information you can visit these sites:

https://commission.europa.eu/education/skills-and-qualifications/develop-your-language-skills/european-masters-translation-emt_de

https://commission.europa.eu/education/skills-and-qualifications/develop-your-language-skills/european-masters-translation-emt/list-emt-members-2024-2029_en

Cooperation with the World Intellectual Property Organization

WIPO-Logo (Quelle: https://www.wipo.int/wipo_magazine/en/2010/02/article_0003.html)
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) (French: Organisation mondiale de la propriété intellectuelle (OMPI)) was founded in 1967 with the goal of promoting intellectual property rights worldwide. Since 1974, WIPO has also been a sub-organization of the United Nations and administers international treaties in the field of intellectual property.

In a collaboration between ASTT and WIPO, terminological entries for the WIPO Pearl database were developed as part of a university course. These entries were made available on September 27, 2023.

More about the database: The WIPO news article is available here.

The database now contains over 245,000 terms, all of which have been validated by WIPO-PCT language experts. In addition, almost 28,000 terms are linked to other terms within the database and can also be searched on the portal for relations between them.

The updated version contains 440 multilingual terminology entries with over 1,000 terms provided by students from the National University of Córdoba, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Saint Joseph University of Beirut, Astrakhan State University, Herzen State Pedagogical University, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, University of Manchester, University of Newcastle and Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey after WIPO validation.

An example of a contribution from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz can be viewed here.

Universität trifft Praxis – der ASTT auf der tekom-Jahrestagung 2018

Vom 13.-15. November 2018 tagt in Stuttgart der deutsche Fachverband für Technische Kommunikation (tekom). Über 4000 Teilnehmer aus aller Welt werden sich in Fachvorträgen und Diskussionsgruppen über die Themen Technische Dokumentation, Fachübersetzungen, Softwarelösungen für die Dokumentationsbranche, Terminologie, Maschinelle Übersetzung usw. austauschen. Im Messebereich können sich die Teilnehmer über Neuheiten, Dienstleistungen und Stellenangebote informieren. Vom Arbeitsbereich ASTT werden Prof. Christoph Rösener, Daniel Zielinski, Carmen Canfora, Ilse Reusch und Juliana Rixen vor Ort sein und die Kontakte mit der Sprachenindustrie ausbauen. Außerdem wird der ASTT den Hochschulstand unterstützen und Informationen über die Ausbildung hochqualifizierter Fachübersetzer anbieten.

Am 14. November wird Carmen Canfora im Rahmen der tekom-Jahrestagung außerdem einen Workshop zum Thema "Übersetzungsrevision in der Praxis" durchführen - dieser Workshop ist bereits ausgebucht.

Anmelden

Interessenten an einem Messebesuch können sich an Ilse Reusch oder Juliana Rixen wenden oder sich unter https://tagungen.tekom.de/h18/tekom-messe/auf-einen-blick/ direkt bei der tekom anmelden.

Janne Bittner (B.A.)

Student research assistant

E-mail: jbittner@students.uni-mainz.de

Charlotte Fischer (B.A.)

Student research assistant

E-mail: cfisch03@students.uni-mainz.de

Workshop zum wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten: #wissenschaftkannich

Keine Angst mehr vor wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten! Wir zeigen Ihnen, wie Sie es richtig machen, welche
Methoden Sie dabei nutzen können und wie Sie typische Fehler vermeiden. Und am Ende können Sie dann sagen: #wissenschaftkannich!

Themen

Wie finde ich ein Thema für meine Haus- oder Abschlussarbeit?
Wie baue ich meine Haus- oder Abschlussarbeit inhaltlich auf?
Wie vermeide ich Plagiate und zitiere richtig?
Welche Forschungsmethoden gibt es?

Dozenten

Carmen Canfora
Torsten Dörflinger

Ort

Campus Germersheim, Hörsaal 369

Datum

Freitag, den 7. Dezember 2018, 09:40-16:10 Uhr
Mittagspause von 12.50 bis 14.30

Anmeldung

Interessiert? Dann melden Sie sich einfach bei Juliana Rixen (jurixen@students.uni-mainz.de) unter Angabe Ihres Namens, Ihres Studiengangs sowie Ihres Fachsemesters an.

Janne Bittner (B.A.)

Student research assistant

E-mail: jbittner@students.uni-mainz.de

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