Webinar on Producing and Disseminating Multilingual Information about COVID-19 in Finland: Best Practices and Challenges

On Thursday 20 October 2022 the Translation Studies Research Community at the University of Helsinki organised an online roundtable about COVID-19-related multilingual information in Finland. 

The program of the webinar was: 
  • Welcome (ENPSIT, Prof. Lieven Buysse)
  • Introduction (Associate Professor Simo Määttä)
  • Results of the project “Improving communication with migrants for crisis preparedness: lessons learned from COVID-19” (Dr. Tuija Kinnunen, Dr. Svetlana Probirskaja, Dr. Päivi Kuusi)
  • General discussion moderated by Simo Määttä

​The presented findings were also published in a research report, which you can find here. 

Webinar on Public Service Interpreting & Translation in the Ukrainian refugee crisis


​On Monday 30 May 2022 the European Network for Public Service Interpreting & Translation hosted an online roundtable on the role of PSIT in the Ukrainian refugee crisis.

The panellists were: 
  • Ms. Nina Asotic, language policy specialist at Atlas Antwerp
  • Ms. Elvira Iannone, Board Member of the BDÜ (Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer)
  • Mr. Pascal Rillof, Head of PSIT Training & Accreditation at Agentschap Integratie & Inburgering (Flemish Agency for Integration)
  • Prof. Katrijn Maryns, Professor of Interpreting at Ghent University

Moderator: Prof. Lieven Buysse (KU Leuven), President of ENPSIT

Click here to rewatch the recording of this webinar via our Youtube Channel

Webinar on Video-Mediated Interpreting in PSI settings

On Thursday 11 May 2023 the European Network for Public Service Interpreting & Translation hosted an online roundtable on Video-Mediated Interpreting in PSI settings.

The panellists were: 
  • Mr. Gabriel Cabrera Méndez (Dualia Teletraducciones – Provider of Remote Interpreting Services, Spain)
  • Mr. Leonardo Doria de Souza (IMDi – Directorate of Integration and Diversity, Norway)
  • Dr. Eliza Kalderon (SAVD – specialised in audio and video interpreting, Austria)
  • Mr. Nicolas Van Puymbroeck (Fedasil – Federal agency for the reception of asylum seekers, Belgium

Moderator: Prof. Lieven Buysse (KU Leuven), President of ENPSIT

Click here to rewatch the recording of this webinar via our Youtube Channel​