Deadline:
May 31, 2024
Program Starts: October 01, 2024
Program Ends: February 28, 2025
Location(s)
France
Strasbourg
Overview
The role of the Terminology Coordination Unit (TermCoord) of the Directorate General for Translation is to strengthen translation units’ terminology work, to carry out terminology management at a central level, to create collaborative resources and to represent the European Parliament in interinstitutional and external cooperation on terminology work.
TermCoord offers 2 posts of traineeship in the field of Terminology and Communication. Our ideal candidates should have a double qualification and experience in both terminology and communication.
Details
As a trainee in the Terminology Coordination Unit of the European Parliament you will learn how to work in the EU’s terminology database IATE and how to retrieve/export termbases for integrating into computer-assisted translation tools. You will have to extract terminology (manually or with term extraction tools) from relevant texts in the fields of activities of the EU and the EP in particular, to research these terms and prepare topical projects. You will also use corpus analysis tools for the creation of specific terminology projects.
You will gain managerial experience participating in the coordination of projects for translation trainees in the 24 EU Languages, write or evaluate articles on terminology for our public website termcoord.eu and browse the web for relevant terminology sources suitable for integration into the search engines accessible in the EP. You will also have an important coordinator’s role in our cooperation with universities worldwide in the framework of the project “Terminology without borders” and manage the respective website.
You will do trainings and presentations and create tutorials and podcasts. You will also have to engage in communication with academia, external terminology experts, professionals working in linguistic areas and people in general who are interested in terminology, translation, languages, multilingualism etc. And you will undertake the website management (web editing, website statistics, website maintenance, SEO etc.), writing and publishing articles, collecting resources from the internet, and managing our social media presence.
1. Terminology traineeship:
We recommend this traineeship for candidates with experience and/or interest in terminology research and management, linguistics and linguistic engineering, as well as specialty fields such as law or European studies. You would be mostly involved in terminology work in the IATE database, terminology project coordination, collecting glossaries and other resources, external contacts organization and many other terminology-related activities.
2. Communication traineeship:
We recommend this traineeship for candidates who would like to be involved mostly in communications, web-editing, journalism and social media promotion activities.
Opportunity is About
Eligibility
Candidates should be from:
Description of Ideal Candidate
Applicants for a traineeship must, inter alia:
- be aged 18 or over on the traineeship start date;
- hold a university-level diploma(s);
- not have worked for more than two consecutive months in an EU institution or body;
- have a perfect command of one of the official languages of the European Union or the official language of an applicant country and a thorough knowledge of two other official languages of the European Union.
What do we expect from you?
- Openess to European issues
- Interest in learning about Commission working methods
- Willingness to work in a multicultural environment
- Contribution to everyday work with a fresh point of view
- Proactive attitude
Dates
Deadline: May 31, 2024
Program starts:
October 01, 2024
Program ends:
February 28, 2025
Program Starts: October 01, 2024
Program Ends: February 28, 2025
Cost/funding for participants
You will receive the living allowance for the traineeships sessions of €1495 per month and reimbursement of travel expenses. Accident and health insurance can also be provided.
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