European Commission bursaries in conference interpretation

The Directorate-General for Interpretation offers partial bursaries for eligible candidates towards the cost of MA courses in conference interpreting for the academic year 2012-13.
Deadline: 16 September 2012
See the SCIC website for more information including eligibility requirements, language combinations, etc.

American Foundation for Translation and Interpretation Scholarship, 2012-2013

Readers in the US may be interested to know of this funding opportunity:

In partnership with JTG, the American Foundation for Translation and Interpretation is offering a partial scholarship of $2,500 for the 2012-2013 academic year for students enrolled or planning to enroll in a degree program in scientific and technical translation or in interpreter training.

Eligibility

1. Applicants must be graduate or undergraduate students enrolled or planning to enroll in a program leading to a degree in scientific and technical translation or in interpretation at an accredited U.S. college or university.
   
2. Applicants must be full-time students who have completed at least one year of college or university studies.
   
3. Generally, an applicant should present a minimum GPA of 3.00 overall and a 3.50 in translation- and interpretation-related courses.
   
4. Applicants should have at least one year of study remaining in their program; however, in certain circumstances, one residual semester may be accepted.
   
5. Applicants must be U.S. citizens. 

The application deadline is 8 June 2012. More information on the scholarship can be found at the AFTI's website. Details of other awards offered by the AFTI can also be found here.

Funding for postgraduate translation study and research, Leicester

Forwarded kindly by a colleague, and may be of interest to readers of this blog:


Postgraduate scholarships/ fee waivers for PhDs and MAs in Translation and MA in Film and Film Cultures (for entry October 2012) at the University of Leicester.

The DEADLINE for applications is 31 March 2012.

http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/modern-languages

http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/translation-studies

http://www2.le.ac.uk/study/research/funding/film

jobs, languages and grammar

Courtesy of Raisa McNab of STP Nordic who gave a great workshop for us today on project management and quality assurance (thank you Raisa!), I have just come across the jobs site Adaptive Globalization, which seems an excellent source of prospects for those of our readers on the lookout for jobs. As always, German and Scandinavian languages are in high demand. Or indeed, as one recently seen advertisement put it, Nordic languages are 'especially sort after'.

Google gives 13,000+ hits for 'especially sort after', so I presume that it's only a matter of time before 'sought' joins 'boughten' and 'wroken' in the great retirement home for obsolete past participles. Meanwhile, I take consolation in the fact that, on the BBC at least, the past participle is alive and well:

Coincidentally, I also recently saw that the University of Leicester are offering three part-scholarships for the academic year 2012-2013 for their MA Translation Studies course, which includes Danish, Norwegian and Swedish as course languages.

study bursaries from the Directorate-General for Interpretation (deadline 15 September)

There are bursaries available from the Directorate-General for Interpretation of the European Commission  for aspiring conference interpreters wishing to enrol on an MA course in conference interpreting. Conditions apply and the bursaries are restricted to certain language combinations.

IF

• you are a national of an EU Member State or of one of the candidate countries (Croatia, FYROM, Iceland and Turkey);
• you already have a university degree or equivalent qualification, or are in the final year of a course leading to a university degree or equivalent qualification;
• you have one of the following language combinations:

1. Excellent command of your mother tongue, and a perfect understanding of

a) at least one of the following languages : Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and
b) of one or more of the following languages : Bulgarian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish or of the language of a candidate country (Croatian, Macedonian, Icelandic, Turkish);

2. Excellent command of two languages (to mother tongue level) of which one is a language mentioned under 1.a above and the other one of the languages mentioned under 1.b ;
3. Excellent command of your active language and a perfect understanding of at least two of the languages mentioned under 1.a ;

AND IF
 
you have applied or intend to apply for a full postgraduate course in conference interpreting offered for the year 2011/2012 by a recognised university or university-level institution

then you may apply for a Study BURSARY from the Directorate General for Interpretation.

In granting study bursaries, preference will be given to applicants offering a language combination which is most suited to DG Interpretation’s current and foreseeable requirements, in particular those with languages of the countries which joined the EU since 2004 or of the candidates countries and with less widely spoken EU languages. Assessment will be based on your full language combination, as well as other qualifications or expertise;
Please, note that

• Candidates who have received a bursary and pass their final examinations must undertake to sit an inter-institutional accreditation test and if successful, to give the EU Institutions first call upon their services for a period of three years;
• DG Interpretation bursary is intended as a contribution towards study expenses, but not necessarily covering all costs. It can be combined with additional funds provided by the university, by the Member State or by other public or private bodies;
• DG Interpretation bursary holders may not benefit at the same time from other bursaries or allowances offered by the European Union.
• Abandoning the course voluntarily during the postgraduate year may make you liable to repay all or part of the bursary;
• Subsequent recruitment as a freelance interpreter by DG Interpretation depends on the applicant's passing their final examinations and the relevant inter-institutional accreditation test;
• In awarding bursaries, DG Interpretation will endeavour to maintain an appropriate gender balance;
• Where the postgraduate course is of more than one-year duration, only final year students will be eligible. 

Further information and a list of the paperwork necessary for the application can be found at http://scic.ec.europa.eu/europa/jcms/c_6344/dg-interpretation-bursaries. The deadline is 15 September 2011.

postgraduate funding

For anyone in looking for support for postgraduate study in translation, this looks like a good opportunity:

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at Durham University is pleased to announce a range of funding opportunities for postgraduate study in Translation Studies both at MA and PhD level in 2010/11.

1. Two AHRC Studentships are being offered by the School under the Block Grant Partnership: a PhD studentship and a Masters studentship in Translation Studies. AHRC studentships cover tuition fees and maintenance (for UK students, tuition fees only for EU students) and are available for full- and part-time study.

Furthermore:

1. Eight prestigious Durham Doctoral Studentships are being offered by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Durham Doctoral Studentships cover tuition fees, maintenance in line with the national Research Council rate, and a research training support grant, and are available for full- and part-time study.

2. Up to two Doctoral Studentships are being offered by the School of Modern Languages and Cultures. MLAC Doctoral Studentships cover tuition fees and include a stipend and a package of undergraduate teaching.

3. Up to ten MA Scholarships (by research) are being offered by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. MA Scholarships cover tuition fees at the UK/EU rate.

Candidates wishing to be considered for funding must have submitted an online application to the University by 5pm (GMT) on Monday 15 March 2010. Applications received after this time will not be considered for funding. Full details of funding opportunities, eligibility criteria, and the application process can be found on the School's website:

http://www.dur.ac.uk/mlac/postgraduate/postgraduatefunding/