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Workshop – Intensive Retour Exercises

Workshop – Intensive Retour Exercises

1 July 2019 – Last Friday and Saturday 16 of our colleagues had the opportunity to participate in HDKP’s Intensive Retour Exercises Workshop, where they received feedback for their retour work in the booth from experienced conference interpreters and native speakers of their retour languages. The intensive work did not prevent the participants from enjoying…

Retour workshop

Retour workshop

A working group of HDKP’s Professional Development and Projects Committee has organized a workshop – Intensive Retour Exercises – where our colleagues, native speakers of English and German, who used to work for DG SCIC or still do will be giving feedback and advice. The target participants of the workshop are experienced conference interpreters who…

Lea Kovács receives special recognition

Lea Kovács receives special recognition

Lea Kovács, a member of our Society, who is not only a conference interpreter but also a literary translator, has received a special recognition by the Iso Velikanović Literary Translation Award Committee for her translation from Hungarian of the poetry collection To the Body by Szilárd Borbély. We offer her our heartfelt congratulations and best…

European Parliament Call for Tender for Translation

European Parliament Call for Tender for Translation

The European Parliament, in cooperation with the Council of the European Union, the European Court of Auditors, the European Economic and Social Committee and the European Committee of the Regions, has launched two new calls for tenders for the provision of translation services into several languages, including Croatian. If interested, you can find more information and deadlines…

Info Day of the Postgraduate Specialist Course in CONFERENCE INTERPRETING

Info Day of the Postgraduate Specialist Course in CONFERENCE INTERPRETING

The University of Zagreb, in cooperation with DGs for conference interpreting of the European Commission and European Parliament, will present its postgraduate specialist course in conference interpreting in the Centre for Postgraduate Studies in Zagreb, Zvonimirova 8, on 18 June 2018 at 6 pm. More information (PDF format)[

Presentation „Professional Ethics and Standards of Conference Interpreting“ – Pula, May 21st 2018

Presentation „Professional Ethics and Standards of Conference Interpreting“ – Pula, May 21st 2018

CSCI, in cooperation with the Faculty of Interdisciplinary, Italian and Cultural Studies of the Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, has the pleasure of inviting you to the interactive presentation „Professional Ethics and Standards of Conference Interpreting“. We will discuss the importance of adhering to professional standards and ethical norms, present numerous cases from interpreters’ past…

The General Assembly

The General Assembly

19 January 2018 – The General Assembly, held on 19 January 2018, admitted Reneé Davies, Vinka Komesar Rajković, Dragana Budanko and Lea Kovacs into regular membership of the Society, and Katarina Bačić as a pre-candidate. Congratulations to all of them! We are eagerly waiting for their input into HDKP’s activities. The members have received the…

30 September – International Translation Day

30 September – International Translation Day

On Saturday, 30 September 2017, the Croatian Society of Conference Interpreters celebrated the International Translation Day with a get-together of its members and precandidates. The informal gathering was an excellent occasion to meet up with colleagues whom we don’t see that often, and to discuss topics that are not dealt with at our regular meetings…

Sad Announcement: Our dear colleague Janko Paravić has died

Sad Announcement: Our dear colleague Janko Paravić has died

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our colleague, one of the founders of our Society and its first president, Janko Paravić. Janko was one of the doyens of conference interpreting in Croatia, a role model for many generations of interpreters, whose interpreting skills, erudition, professional demeanour and openness, and the…

Voice coaching workshop for conference interpreters

Voice coaching workshop for conference interpreters

15 July 2017 – The Training and Projects Committee of the Croatian Society of Conference Interpreters organized yet another one-day voice coaching workshop for conference interpreters in cooperation with Gabrijela Kišiček from the Phonetics Department of the Faculty of Humanities in Zagreb and Davor Stanković, voice trainer from HRT, the Croatian public broadcasting company.