Description:
Each year, the Directorate General for Interpretation (DG Interpretation, also known as SCIC) offers a number of bursaries. DG Interpretation study bursaries are available to students of all disciplines who have been accepted for a full-time postgraduate training course in conference interpreting offered by a recognized university or university-level institution. If successfully completed, this will lead to a qualification certifying that you are able to work as a professional conference interpreter in both consecutive and simultaneous modes.
Eligability:
- be a national of the EU Member States or candidate countries (Albania, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia and
Turkey);
- be in possession of a university degree or equivalent qualification or be in the final year of a course leading to a university degree or
equivalent qualification
- have applied or intend to apply for a full Master/postgraduate course in conference interpreting offered for the year 2016/2017 by a
recognized university or university-level institution.
Have the following language combinations:
- Excellent command of your active language, and a very good passive knowledge of at least one of the languages Dutch, English, French,
German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish and of one or more of the following languages: Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Estonian, Finnish,
Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Romanian, Slovak, Slovene, Swedish or of the language of a candidate country
(Albanian, Macedonian, Montenegrin, Serbian or Turkish);
- Excellent command of two languages (to mother tongue level) of which one is a language mentioned under 1.a above and the other one of
the languages mentioned above or
- Excellent command of your active language and a perfect understanding of at least two of the languages mentioned above.
Scholarship value:
EUR 2.400 for those studying in a Member State
EUR 1.600 for those studying in a candidate country, non-Member State.
Deadline: 16 September 2016