Join ATPD for the 2023 edition of our flagship Training of Trainers course, the Rome ToT, which will once again be held in person for the first time since 2020! We are delighted to welcome you back to “Bella Roma” three years on, thereby affording you the opportunity to climb the real Spanish Steps rather than selecting them as a screen background! Read on for more details…

Course description

This year’s Rome Training of Trainers will look at synergies in interpreter training. In most countries, different types of interpreters are trained separately, for more or less obvious reasons. Conference interpreters are often trained at the master’s level and begin their training program with their languages already acquired. Sign language interpreters, for their part, are often trained at the undergraduate level, and continue to learn their languages while also learning to interpret. As for public service interpreters, although they typically also master their languages beforehand, access to training varies: in some countries training programs are offered outside universities, but in much of the world, PSI training programs simply do not exist.

In this workshop, Elisabet Tiselius of Stockholm University will showcase interpreter training in Sweden. The interpreter education at Stockholm university has three different programs in different streams (conference interpreting, sign language interpreting and public service interpreting), and Sweden also has a non-university program for public service interpreters. Dr Tiselius will discuss how to make use of different programs to expose the different interpreting professions to each other, and find synergies where possible. Participants will be encouraged to reflect upon different student populations and what it takes to become an interpreter, both generally and more specifically for the different professions, including what skills and knowledge students need to master, and how different interpreting programs can be adapted and enhanced to best teach and learn those skills. Dr Tiselius will touch upon pedagogical approaches in interpreter education, and highlight the differences between, but also and more importantly the similarities of, interpreter education programs, interpreting students and interpreting professions as a whole.

Audience

This ToT targets interpreter trainers who are looking to further enrich their students’ experience by raising awareness of other interpreting modes and their differences and similarities. It will also be of interest to educators tasked with designing state-of-the-art university curricula, or for those who would simply like to know more about the training of interpreters outside the conference sphere.

Course details

The event will be held at the following venue in Rome:

Sala Convegni Roma

Piazza Cola di Rienzo 80a

Rome, Italy

Dates and times:

Saturday 13 May 9:30 – 17:00

Sunday 14 May 9:30 – 13:00

Course fee: AIIC members 195 CHF / non-members 245 CHF

Deadline for registration: 15 April 2023
Contact: Stefano Marrone (marrone_s@camera.it)

About the trainer

Elisabet Tiselius is associate professor of interpreting studies at Stockholm University, training students in public service, conference and signed language interpreting. She is a member of AIIC (where she has served on the Research Committee), and is an active interpreter accredited with the EU institutions, as well as holding a Swedish state authorization in public service interpreting. The current president of the European Society for Translation Studies, Dr Tiselius also helms the research group Stockholm Process Research in Interpreting and Translation. Her publications include the Routledge Handbook of Conference Interpreting (co-editor). She tweets @tulkur.

Sponsorships
ATPD will sponsor up to four interpreter trainers to attend this seminar. The sponsorship grant will cover an economy return airfare (upon presentation of a valid ticket) up to a maximum of CHF 1000. It does not cover the cost of registration.

Applicants for the 2023 sponsorship grant should have their professional address outside Europe and/or have Ukrainian as a working language and should be able to demonstrate that they are practising conference interpreters who regularly teach conference interpreting. Attendance at, or organisation of, interpreting-related training events will also be considered in the review of applications. AIIC members and non-members may apply.

Applications must be submitted to ATPD (training-group@aiic.org) by 1 April 2023. The results of the selection procedure will be announced as soon as possible after this date.

Trainers applying for sponsorship who intend to attend the course with or without sponsorship should also register for the course at the link above. Trainers whose participation depends on the award of sponsorships need only apply for the sponsorship.

Event accessibility

If you require any specific accommodations to attend this training, please fill out our accessibility accommodation request form. A member of ATPD will then contact you to discuss the details of your request. While we cannot guarantee that the requested accommodation will be provided, we will work together with you to find a solution that will help you participate in the event. Note that it may be difficult to meet requests submitted less than 14 days in advance.