Pedagogical Assistance from DG Interpretation (deadline: 1/5/09)
DG Interpretation may provide pedagogical assistance to universities and higher-education establishments, offering a complete / post-graduate course in conference interpreting, by:
- sending experienced interpreters to universities to improve training;
- sending interpreters to sit on examination boards;
- providing teaching tools tuned by DG Interpretation, e.g. videocassettes, manuals;
- organising university study visits to DG Interpretation.
Objectives
As an inter-institutional service provider, the objective of the Directorate General for Interpretation is to ensure the availability of sufficient suitably qualified conference interpreters to guarantee the smooth functioning of the European Institutions.
Within the general context of the European Union objectives, the main objectives of the Pedagogical Assistance programme are:
- consolidate integration of the new languages and prepare for future enlargement of the Union in order to ensure an adequate multilingual communication capability in all official EU languages
- promote the quality and spread of language coverage in teaching of interpreting for the official languages of the Union, especially the less widely known ones, the languages of the applicant countries and the languages of third countries as justified by current or foreseeable demand;
- promote the establishment of post-graduate courses;
- encourage co-operation between universities in different countries;
- step up the quality of teaching;
- support innovative pilot projects.
Submission of applications
Award criteria conformity with the objectives of the programme clear justification of the needs as well as the envisaged results of the assistance the level of quality of the course the cost-benefit ratio compliance with procedures and deadlines.
The application for pedagogical assistance will include the application form, accompanied by the documentation specified there, together with the following :
- the status of the applying university / higher-education establishments;
- staff organisation chart; curriculum vitae of the teaching staff and their status;
- the structure, contents and timetable of the courses involved;
- the languages and language combinations offered;
- the number of students enrolled on courses and the number of aid recipients;
- success rates in the last three years;
- the type of diploma awarded on successful completion of the course
The application must include all other relevant information. If it concerns a first application, it must be submitted in duplicate. Any significant change to the file (or withdrawal) must be notified immediately.
Time limits
Applications must reach DG Interpretation before 1 May , for assistance between 1 September and 31 January.
The application form and the accompanying documentation should be sent to:
European Commission
DG Interpretation - Head of Unit C1
Multilingualism and Interpreter Training Support Unit
Office C-107 3/32
B - 1049 Brussels
Meer lezen:
http://scic.ec.europa.eu/europa/jcms/c_6050/pedagogical-assistance
