Webinars

One of ENPSIT’s objectives is to organise webinars about relevant topics for our members and community. This page provides an overview of the different webinars that have been or will be organised by ENPSIT.

Visit this page to rewatch past webinars via our Youtube Channel

 

Call for proposals for future webinars

Does your organisation want to organise a webinar? Any ideas or proposals? Please contact the ENPSIT President Lieven Buysse at Lieven.Buysse@kuleuven.be. Let’s start building an inspiring series of webinars from and for the ENPSIT community and beyond!

Past webinars

Webinar on Developing an EU Web Portal for Video-Mediated PSI with Migrants and Refugees

On Wednesday 22 January 2025 the European Network for Public Service Interpreting & Translation hosted an online roundtable on developing an EU web portal for video-mediated PSI with migrants and refugees.

The program of the webinar was:

  • Welcome (Ghent University, Eleonora Mazzanti)
  • Background EU-WEBPSI project (Ghent University, Prof. Katrijn Maryns)
  • Project outcomes (Ghent University, Prof. July De Wilde)
  • Demo EU-WEBPSI portal (Ghent University, Eleonora Mazzanti)
  • Q&A and discussion ​

Click here to rewatch the recording of this webinar via our Youtube Channel

Webinar on Training Approaches to Public Service Interpreting in Refugee contexts with Languages of Lesser Diffusion

On Wednesday 27 November 2024 the European Network for Public Service Interpreting & Translation hosted an online roundtable on training approaches to public service interpreting in refugee contexts with languages of lesser diffusion.

The program of the webinar was:

  • Welcome (ENPSIT, Prof. Lieven Buysse)
  • Results of Erasmus+ project ReTrans (University of Vienna, Prof. Sonja Pöllabauer)
  • Results of Erasmus+ project Dialogos (University of Alcalá, Prof. Carmen Pena)
  • Q&A and discussion, moderated by Lieven Buysse ​
Click here to rewatch the recording of this webinar via our Youtube Channel

Webinar on Video-Mediated Interpreting in PSI settings

On Thursday 11 May 2023 the European Network for Public Service Interpreting & Translation hosted an online roundtable on Video-Mediated Interpreting in PSI settings.

The panellists were:

  • Mr. Gabriel Cabrera Méndez (Dualia Teletraducciones – Provider of Remote Interpreting Services, Spain)
  • Mr. Leonardo Doria de Souza (IMDi – Directorate of Integration and Diversity, Norway)
  • Dr. Eliza Kalderon (SAVD – specialised in audio and video interpreting, Austria)
  • Mr. Nicolas Van Puymbroeck (Fedasil – Federal agency for the reception of asylum seekers, Belgium

Moderator: Prof. Lieven Buysse (KU Leuven), President of ENPSIT

Click here to rewatch the recording of this webinar via our Youtube Channel​

 

Webinar on Producing and Disseminating Multilingual Information about COVID-19 in Finland: Best Practices and Challenges

On Thursday 20 October 2022 the Translation Studies Research Community at the University of Helsinki organised an online roundtable about COVID-19-related multilingual information in Finland.

The program of the webinar was:

  • Welcome (ENPSIT, Prof. Lieven Buysse)
  • Introduction (Associate Professor Simo Määttä)
  • Results of the project “Improving communication with migrants for crisis preparedness: lessons learned from COVID-19” (Dr. Tuija Kinnunen, Dr. Svetlana Probirskaja, Dr. Päivi Kuusi)
  • General discussion moderated by Simo Määttä

​The presented findings were also published in a research report, which you can find here. 

Webinar on Public Service Interpreting & Translation in the Ukrainian refugee crisis

​On Monday 30 May 2022 the European Network for Public Service Interpreting & Translation hosted an online roundtable on the role of PSIT in the Ukrainian refugee crisis.The panellists were:

  • Ms. Nina Asotic, language policy specialist at Atlas Antwerp
  • Ms. Elvira Iannone, Board Member of the BDÜ (Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer)
  • Mr. Pascal Rillof, Head of PSIT Training & Accreditation at Agentschap Integratie & Inburgering (Flemish Agency for Integration)
  • Prof. Katrijn Maryns, Professor of Interpreting at Ghent University

Moderator: Prof. Lieven Buysse (KU Leuven), President of ENPSIT

Click here to rewatch the recording of this webinar via our Youtube Channel

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