EU Young Translator contest winners announced
The winners of the European Commission’s annual EU Young Translator ‘Juvenes Translatores’ contest for secondary school pupils were published today. The 27 winners, which are one per EU country, will be invited to an award ceremony in Brussels on 11 April to receive their prizes from Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou and will also have the chance to see the Commission's translators at work.
As Androulla Vassiliou, Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth stated: “The contest is an excellent way to promote language learning and translation as a possible career. Language skills are a fantastic asset: they broaden the mind and can boost employability, something which is especially important in the current economic environment."
More than 3 000 pupils from 750 schools took part in the contest in November 2012. The contestants were asked to translate a one page text based on their choice of any of the 506 language combinations possible among the EU’s 23 official languages while the texts were marked by the Commission's translators. In particular, 11 winners translated from English, 5 from French, 5 from Spanish, 4 from German, 1 from Estonian and 1 from Irish.
The translation texts that were prepared by the Commission's translators, focused on solidarity between generations, the theme of the 2012 European Year, and ranged from stories of the young teaching the old how to use computers to history lessons given by elders to children.
The ‘Juvenes Translatores’ (Latin for ‘young translators’) contest is organized every year by the European Commission's Directorate-General for Translation with a view to promote language learning in schools and give young people a chance to experience what it is like to be a translator. The contest also gives schools an opportunity to learn from each other and try out different methods of language teaching.
To see the winners of this year’s competition click here.
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