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.
