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On 3 July 2013 a Jubilee Diploma Awarding Ceremony took place at St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation. As the tradition goes, the graduates were congratulated by Rector Valery Solomin and honorary guests from Russian MFA, European Commission, the UN and the City Government.
Several members of the Government and international organizations were awarded HerzenUniversity signs of honors. Thus, Alexander Prokhorenko, St. Petersburg Government Member and Chair of the Committee for External Relations, Marco Benedetti, Director General of the DG Interpretation of the European Commission, and Noël Muylle, Honorary Director General of the European Commission received HerzenUniversity medals “In recognition of the services in education and science”. Alexander Gorelik, Director of the UN Information Center in Moscow, Wolter Witteveen, Head of the Interinstitutional Relations and International Cooperation Unit, DG Interpretation, the European Commission, and Kirill Kasyanov, UN Coordinator on MoU were presented with Honorary Certificates of Appreciation from the Herzen Academic Board. The rewardees warmly thanked the Rector’s office for the honor. Marco Benedetti appreciated the University’s decision to apply for membership in international educational institutions – EMCI (European Master in Conference Interpreting) and CIUTI (Conférence Internationale Permanente d’Instituts Universiteres de Traducteurs et Interprétes). Noël Muylle stressed the importance of introducing a programme of Conference Management, a unique educational module meant to meet the growing demand for specialists in event management in the Russian language industry.
11 School’s graduates received Herzen diplomas and St. Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation certificates and were greeted with a round of applause. The graduates of earlier years also gave a welcome speech. Grigory Khaustov read a letter from Egor Ovcharenko, a School Alumni Associaiton Captain and a 2010 graduate now working at the Russian Translation Service in the UN Headquarters in New York.
A boat trip over the Neva river crowned the festive events of the day. The newly-minted interpreters and translators thanked their trainers in a mock Award Ceremony «Gold Diaphragm».
