The programme consists of industrial placements for EU/SMP-COSME students. It starts in August and ends in March of the following year (8 months) in order to accommodate the academic year in EU Member States. This programme aims to improve and stimulate industrial co-operation and better mutual understanding between Japan and the EU. The students follow: […]
Internships – Eurodyssey Programme
Eurodyssey is a traineeship programme between European Regions. It allows young people aged 18-30 to benefit from a three to seven months paid vocational training course in a foreign business. The aim of the programme is to allow young people to gain work experience while improving their knowledge of a foreign language. Language training: the vast majority […]
PhD – Position in Language Evolution – Netherlands
The PhD project will focus on testing the social, environmental, and/or cognitive pressures that shape the evolution of human language as well as its ongoing diversification and change in present day. The exact research topic is flexible (under consultation and as long as there is a focus on language evolution and adaptation), meaning that candidates […]
New Eurobarometer shows Europeans’ positive attitude towards language learning
A vast majority of Europeans (86%) believe that everyone should speak at least one foreign language, and almost three out of five (59%) can have a conversation in one. These are some of the results of the new Eurobarometer on “Europeans and their languages” that the Commission published. Coinciding with the world day for cultural diversity, […]
Horizon Europe: Political participation in multilingual spaces
Expected Outcome Projects should contribute to all of the following expected outcomes: Development of a European public space for citizen deliberation through a better understanding of the tools and mechanisms that can overcome barriers to political participation in multilingual spaces. Better management of linguistic diversity in political participation, from the local to the European level. […]
Music aids language-learning in autistic children
Acknowledging the special role of music in autism, EU researchers designed an effective intervention programme to improve speech in autistic children. Research shows that autistic individuals are more likely to have perfect pitch and prefer music to language, while language delay in autism tends to co-occur with better musical skills. Moreover, neuroimaging studies suggest that […]
How machine translation impacts language learning
Although the use of machine translation tools does impact how one learns a new language, they can also be an important ally for language teachers. Whether it be to decode a menu in a foreign country or make sense of a website, for many the use of web-based machine translation (MT) systems like Google Translate, […]
English-language intercultural and language professional position
The European Parliament has decided to organise, on the basis of Article 29 of the Staff Regulations of Officials of the European Union, an open competition (AD 5) for the Directorate-General for Translation. Job description The tasks of intercultural and language professionals are: facilitating communication with citizens in clear language, in their mother tongue; translating, […]
Traineeship in the European Medicines Agency
The European Medicines Agency organises traineeships for university graduates in its headquarters in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The programme aims to give trainees an understanding of the Agency and its role within the activities of the European Union. It also enables them to acquire practical knowledge in one of the EMA’s Units and to obtain professional […]