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22-24 января 2014 г.: Школа принимает участие в III Евразийском Ивент-форуме

On 22-24 January, Ш Europe+Asia Event Forum took place in St Petersburg. The forum brought together event-industry specialists from Europe, Asia and America to hold discussions in round tables, and panels. One of the sessions addressed the challenge of bringing together the event industry labour market and educational practices. Deputy Director of the School Angelique Antonova gave a presentation “Adapting European Experience of Congress Management Training Programs to Russian Education Environment”.

The Forum organizers succeeded in bringing to St. Petersburg foreign and Russian experts in the global event market. Specifically, Elling Hamso, managing partner, Event ROI Institute (Norway), gave a presentation Means to ensure high level services for meetings and events (http://euras-forum.com/russian-industriya-vstrech-vyigodna-regionam). On 24 January, with Roid Translation Agency’s assistance, Elling Hamso was invited to talk to the students of Congress Management programme. Mr Hamso spoke about measuring the efficiency of business events and their non-economic consequences, and Jack Phillips’ method. In the follow-up, he took numerous questions from the students promised to have another meeting with them once he is back to St. Petersburg. In September 2014 Elling Hamso is planning to hold a two-week seminar in St. Petersburg on the efficiency of investment in events and meetings. 

13-24 января: мастер-классы переводчика ФАО Джонатана Клеменса

The outset of the semester at the School was marked by a two-week series of master classes with Jonathan Clements, FAO staff interpreter. As in previous years, the master-classes targeted a set of skills: the students interpreted consecutively and simultaneously, to and from English and practiced sight translation. The complexity of the approach and the difficulty of the FAO materials multiplied by Jonathan’s perfectionist attitude proved to be an additional stimulus for the trainees to work hard. In turn, as a part of his Russian language enhancement program, Jonathan attended the lectures given by the School’s teachers and Russian language classes. He expressed gratitude to School student Vadim Ermolenko for his help in mastering Russian. We sincerely hope that Jonathan’s latest visit is another step on the way to sign the Memorandum of Understanding between the Herzen University and FAO.

4-5 ноября: мастер-классы Почетного Генерального директора Европейской комиссии Ноэля Мюлля.

On 4-5 November 2013 Noël Muylle, Honorary Director General of the European Commission, gave a series of master classes for the School students.  Despite his tight agenda at II St. Petersburg International Cultural Forum, Mr Muylle found time to hold several master classes. With impressive agility of mind our guest switched from one language to another, offering the students not only a lesson in interpreting, but also in European multilingualism. Multiplied by the charisma of Noël Muylle’s personality it was truly a lesson to remember! 

5-8 ноября 2013: Мастер-классы переводчика Европейской комиссии Брайана Джентла

On 5 – 8 November Brian Gentle, an interpreter from the European Commission held a series of master-classes for the SCIT students. The trainees looked forward to this meeting: the expert interpreter explained the step-by-step process of mastering the skills of simultaneous interpreting, gave a series of intensive classes and shared his experience of interpreting for major international organization. 

6 декабря 2013 г.: видеоконференция с Генеральным директоратом устного перевода Европейской комиссии

On 6 December 2013, the School and DG SCIC organized a joint videoconference. The videoconference lasted for two hours, and all School trainees were involved with 4 students doing consecutive interpretation from English and Spanish. The topics ranged from the activities of international organizations to contemporary achievements in medicine. Students not involved in the actual conference worked independently in the silent booths. The students’ work was assessed by both DG SCIC experts and School trainers. The conference was moderated by Claude Durand, Head of Multilingualism and Interpreter Training Support Unit, DG SCIC. The students received recommendations concerning memory training and improving analysis and synthesis skills in interpreting. Mr Durand underlined the importance of working on delivery and register accuracy while interpreting.