Introducing the Directorate-General for Translation of the European Commission

The Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) is the European Commission's in-house translation service and one of the biggest public translation services in the world. The DGT offers high quality translations into and from the 23 official languages of the EU. Its aim is to bring European institutions closer to European citizens and to ensure that the latter have access to information on European policies.

Text by Flavia Frangini

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Introducing CIUTI

Given its key institutional and political position, the DGT has great responsibility toward the translation community. It is not merely an operational service providing high quality translations. It contributes to the definition of multilingualism policy and develops actions and activities in this field to raise awareness about policy issues and to enhance the profession of the translator. It cooperates with both EU bodies and external stakeholders in order to raise the status and visibility of the profession, to disseminate best practices, to steer training in directions that reflect the needs of the market, and to improve the employability of future translators.

Within the European institutions the DGT promotes and disseminates best practices, raises awareness about the linguistic implications of all European policies, and works to integrate the linguistic dimension in all EU ...