ENPSIT

European Network for Public Service Interpreting and Translation

Introducing ENPSIT

​The European Network for Public Service Interpreting and Translation (ENPSIT) gathers providers of public service interpreting and translation services, training institutions, public service interpreters and translators, teachers, assessors, researchers and their organisations and institutions from across Europe.

What is PSIT?

Public service interpreters transmit messages between speakers that do not share the same language, conveying as accurately and unbiasedly as possible each of the speakers' messages to the other. At least one speaker is a public service  provider, and at least one of the other speakers is their client. Public service translators do the same but in written mode of communication.

Aims

ENPSIT works towards a European Policy for public service interpreting and translation, which is enforced at a national level. It calls on EU levels of government to:
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• Acknowledge public service interpreting and translation as necessary instruments within a European integration policy that incorporates diversity and equal opportunities;
• Guarantee everyone's rights to high quality language support in service provision in a governmental or social context;
• Introduce European quality standards for public service interpreting and translation;
• Ackowledge and finance public service interpreting and translation services;
• Stimulate PSIT-related research.​

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