On 29 October, members of the European Parliament and the European Commission who arrived at the Herzen university to sign the Memorandum of Understanding gave a lecture and a master class for the School students. In her lecture Olga Cosmidou, Director-General, DG INTE, European Parliament, spoke about the structure and operations of the interpretation service at the EP stressing the importance of multilingualism for this organization. The lecture was followed by a master class by Juan Carlos Jimenez Marin, Director, Directorate for Organisation and Planning, Susanne Altenberg, Head of Unit, Unit Support to Multilingualism, and Christine Bahr, Advisor to the Director General who gave speeches interpreted by the School trainees from English, German, French and Spanish. This was the first experience for the students in this academic year to practice interpreting into English and French while our distinguished guests acted as a review board.