Young translators' contest

19 May 2008

Commission launches a second edition of the young translators' contest

EU Member States' school students can try their hand at translation in the second edition of "Juvenes Translatores" (young translators) contest that the Commission launches today. Encouraged by the enthusiasm of, and positive feedback from the participants in the first contest, organised in 2007-2008, the Commission decided to organise it again. All EU schools will be invited to register between 1 September and 20 October 2008 for a contest to be held on 27 November 2008.

"The first contest was successful in promoting multilingualism and demonstrating the value of language learning as well as in raising interest in the crucial but often invisible profession of translator", said Leonard Orban, Commissioner for Multilingualism. "The comments we received from schools and participants showed that the experience was rewarding and that we were right on target. Therefore, we decided to organise it again."

The contest website (http://ec.europa.eu/translatores) will be on line in the 23 official EU languages as of 9 May.

More information at http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/08/721&type=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en