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

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

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