L’Université Savoie Mont-Blanc en partenariat avec l’Université Nova de Lisbonne a mis en place le premier Diplôme d’Université de Terminologie en France avec la participation d’intervenants de la DG Traduction du Parlement Européen, de l’AFNOR et de l’Université Grenoble-Alpes. La formation est dispensée à distance, en français ou en anglais selon les participants.
Cette formation vise à doter toute personne impliquée dans une démarche terminologique des compétences nécessaires à la construction de terminologies et à la mise en place de politiques terminologiques au sein d’une organisation. Continue reading
As regular readers know, business jargon, aka ‘management speak’, and corporate buzzwords are favourite themes of this blog. So this recent publication (mostly in French) was of great interest. Hope you agree!
Having seen the announcement a few days ago by the World Health Organization (WHO) to adopt letters from the Greek alphabet to label key variants of SARS-CoV-2 as a way of avoid place names and the stigma and discrimination attached to that, I thought a post on recent terminological guidance might be useful. 
The Paul-André Crépeau Centre of Private and Comparative Law at McGill University in Montreal makes available its Private Law Dictionaries and Bilingual Lexicons.
If you work on European Union documents (and even if you don’t), you may find this index of specialised glossaries of use. It is organised around the areas of the Directorate-Generals and bodies, and covers a wide range of subjects from finance to the environment and from fishing to aviation. 
The PCT Translation Division of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) organizes a Fellowship Program for assistant terminologists, translators, and translation technologists, with the aim of providing on-the-job experience at an international organization. WIPO is now accepting applications for the 2021 edition of the Program.
From Words to Deeds: translation & the law 
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