The plenary speaker Olga Cosmidou, Director General of Directorate General for\u00a0Interpretation and Conferences, announced the foundation of the International\u00a0Consortium of Master\u2019s Programs in Conference Interpreting (IMCI) where she invited\u00a0Herzen University to join. IMCI is open to universities which guarantee quality of\u00a0interpreter training, confirmed by the graduates\u2019 employment in the international\u00a0organizations of the European Union and the UN. The participants had a lively discussion\u00a0about the cooperation between the international organizations and conference interpreting\u00a0schools, including the requirements for language mediators in international bodies, and,\u00a0accordingly, the quality criteria to be met by the institutions offering interpreting training\u00a0programs and willing to establish cooperation with international organizations.<\/p>\n
Within the conference framework First Vice-Rector Goncharov had a series of meetings\u00a0with the EU officials. The meeting with Ms Walter-Drop, who is Ms. Cosmidou\u2019s\u00a0successor as Director General of the Directorate General for Interpretation and\u00a0Conferences, was focused on the issues of cooperation between the European Parliament\u00a0and Herzen University. Ms Walter-Drop confirmed that she is ready to maintain the\u00a0level of cooperation with Herzen University. At the meeting with Mr Durand, Head of\u00a0Multilingualism and Interpreter Training Support Unit at DG SCIC, he confirmed the\u00a0European Commission would maintain the level of pedagogical assistance to the School\u00a0despite the budgetary constraints. Mr. Chizhov, Permanent Representative of the Russian\u00a0Federation in the European Union, also took part in the conference. During the meeting\u00a0Mr Chizhov noted the high qualification of the School graduates working in the MFA\u00a0of Russia and, particularly, in the Permanent Mission of the Russian Federation to the\u00a0European Union. Mr Chizhov confirmed that the Permanent Mission of the Russian\u00a0Federation to the European Union is ready to support the St Petersburg School of\u00a0Interpreting and Translation of Herzen University in the European institutions. Several\u00a0meetings with the heads of interpreting programs from Geneva University (Switzerland),\u00a0Comillas University (Spain), La Laguna University (Spain), SISU (Shanghai, China) and\u00a0others also took place on the margins of the event.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
On 13-14 November Sergey Goncharov, First Vice-Rector, Vladimir Khodyrev,\u00a0member of St. Petersburg Board of Rectors and member of SCIT Board of Guardians,\u00a0Ms Angelique Antonova, Deputy Director of the St. Petersburg School of Conference\u00a0Interpreting and Translation, took part in the conference Delivering Excellence in\u00a0Conference Interpreting in Brussels. The conference was organized by the European\u00a0Parliament for the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1993"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3885,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1993\/revisions\/3885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scit.herzen.spb.ru\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}