✨ Warmest wishes for a peaceful and joyous New Year from the entire EU-WEBPSI team! We're back from our break and excited to dive into the final phase of our project. Public service interpreting training is in full swing, the portal is live, and our partners are actively testing it to meet real #multilingual communication needs between #asylum seekers and public services. 💡 Don’t miss our upcoming free webinars to: • Gain insight into our work and upcoming plans. • Discover how the EU-WEBPSI project can benefit your organisation. • See how the EU-WEBPSI portal works and get answers to all your questions! 📅 Mark your calendar: Feb 19 OR Mar 19, 2025 | 12:30 PM CET 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/ed5UEsHj #EUWEBPSI #PSIT #MigrationEU
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When arriving in a new country, effective communication in the initial stage is one of the main tools to achieve integration in that country. A newcomer will obviously not immediately be able to master the local language, which is why the services of a public service interpreter play an important role in this initial stage. Practices of how interpreters can be and are employed in such settings differ widely across Europe, and there is no European framework of minimal standards for public service interpreting (PSI) yet. This causes unequal access to basic services across the EU. An additional challenge for newcomers is the mismatch between interpreter supply and demand: speakers from languages of lesser diffusion (LLDs) are often excluded from access to essential services due to insufficient interpreters in their languages. To tackle these challenges, the project has a three-fold overall objective: 1) Develop minimum standards to guarantee high-quality language support and equal access to basic services for newcomers across the EU; 2) Facilitate access to interpreting services by offering remote solutions that are more adapted to contemporary needs; 3) Increase the interpreting capacity for LLDs to make sure that more newcomers have access to essential language services and to empower the speakers of these languages EU-WEBPSI includes several project stages to achieve these objectives. To be able to fulfil the several project objectives, an innovative EU-wide portal will be set up, which will provide video remote interpreting services. Three reception authorities will be responsible for the training of 60 newcomers who will be deployed as public service interpreters on the web portal after certification. Throughout the project, we will refer to these interpreters as (WEB)PSIs.
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The #EUWEBPSI team is taking a break for the holiday season! As we wrap up a year filled with collaboration and progress, we want to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported and engaged with our work. We wish you all a joyous holiday season! 🎄 ️ Before we head into the new year, mark your calendars! 🗓️ We’re hosting an exciting free webinar to give you a sneak peek at the new EU-WEBPSI portal and the project outcomes. 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/ed5UEsHj #HappyHolidays #EUWEBPSI #MigrationEU
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𝗘𝗨-𝗪𝗘𝗕𝗣𝗦𝗜: 𝗠𝗘𝗘𝗧 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗙𝗘𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗢𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗦! On Tuesday 10 December the trainees of the EU-WEBPSI project had the opportunity to meet with seven professional interpreters who work in the public service. They got to know the job of interpreter from the inside and had plenty of opportunity to ask questions. Forty trainees are currently undertaking a two-month internship in one of Fedasil's reception centres. This internship is part of the interpreter training programme they follow at Agentschap Integratie en Inburgering. Trainee Douaa Alsebahy: “Learning from other professionals’ experiences is priceless. One of the experts advised us to 𝘮𝘢𝘯𝘢𝘨𝘦 𝘮𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴: 𝘴𝘵𝘰𝘱 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘦𝘯 𝘯𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘦𝘥, 𝘮𝘢𝘬𝘦 𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘨𝘪𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘵 𝘥𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘭𝘺. 𝘒𝘪𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘢𝘴𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘮 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘰𝘳 𝘵𝘰𝘰 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨 𝘴𝘰 𝘺𝘰𝘶 𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘵 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘪𝘴 𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘢𝘣𝘭𝘦.” 𝗘𝗨-𝗪𝗲𝗯𝗽𝘀𝗶 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁 ? In Greece, France and Belgium refugees and individuals with a migrant background follow a training to become public service interpreters. This intensive training includes an internship where trainees gain hands-on experience. #euwebpsi
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🌍 Get to know the EU-WEBPSI Portal! Join Our Live Webinars 🎥 Are you a public service using interpreting services—or a provider of public service interpreting? Struggling to find interpreters for specific languages? Wondering how to make video mediated interpreting easier? Join us for a webinar to learn about the EU-WEBPSI project! Here’s what you’ll explore: ✅ What is EU-WEBPSI? Understand the goals and vision for improving public service interpreting. ✅ Achievements so far: ◾ The EU-WEBPSI model of minimal standards for public service interpreting (PSI). ◾ Train-the-trainer materials for PSI. ◾ The EU-WEBPSI portal - live demo included! 📅 Choose your session and register now! ◾ Feb 19, 2025, 12:30 PM CET (English) ◾ Mar 19, 2025, 12:30 PM CET (English) 👉 Register here: https://lnkd.in/ed5UEsHj We’re excited to showcase everything we’ve been working on to support public service interpreting. Don’t miss it! #EUWEBPSI #PublicServiceInterpreting #VideoInterpreting #LanguageServices #Webinar
The EU-WEBPSI portal goes live!
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Have you had a chance to explore our brand-new #EUWEBPSI web portal? 🔎 Our partners in Greece, France, and Belgium are currently training #refugees and individuals with a migrant background to become public service #interpreters. This comprehensive training includes an internship where trainees gain hands-on experience through video-mediated interpreting assignments on the portal. Additionally, eight train-the-trainer modules have been developed to provide support for PSI trainers. Want to learn more about what's covered in these modules? Discover the latest efforts of our project partners and access the train-the-trainers materials here: https://lnkd.in/ednBaX7k #PSIT #asylum
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Meet Our Partners #9: Entraide Pierre Valdo! In this second feature on our #EUWEBPSI project partners in France, we’re pleased to introduce Entraide Pierre Valdo (EPV). Entraide Pierre Valdo is a French organisation fostering the reception, integration and socio-professional integration of any person in need of protection, without distinction of nationality, origin, gender, religious or political beliefs. Within EU-WEBPSI, Entraide Pierre Valdo works alongside ISM CORUM to deliver PSI training to candidates with #refugee backgrounds. Their work on the ground serves as a vital link between the training organisation and refugee centers, playing a key role in making this training accessible and impactful. Special thanks to Noémie GRIOT, Giouli Sarantari, and Isabelle Mestre from the EPV team for their dedication and collaboration in this effort. #EUWEBPSI #PSIT #interpreting #asylum
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Meet Our Partners #8! This is part 1 of 2 on the #EUWEBPSI project partners in France: meet ISM CORUM! Based in Lyon, ISM CORUM is a not-for-profit with 45+ years of experience in providing interpreting and translation services in the fields of asylum, education, health, social services, etc. Their mission is to help guarantee equal rights and access to services to non-native speakers. They are also involved in fostering the recognition and professionalisation of public service interpreting in France through the RIMES network. Within the EU-WEBPSI project, ISM CORUM delivers PSI training to increase the capacity for interpreting in languages of limited diffusion in combination with French. Eric Cédiey, Yves Henry and Paula Giambastiani from ISM CORUM form the team that we have the pleasure to work with!
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Meet Our Partners #7! In Belgium, #EUWEBPSI can count on Fedasil as a valued partner! The Belgian Federal Agency for the reception of asylum seekers provides applicants to international protection with material assistance, including accommodation, medical, legal and interpreting services. Within #EUWEBPSI, Fedasil brings precious insights from the field and invaluable operational support for the testing phase of the project, supporting AgII in the organisation and delivery of PSI training to applicants for international protection and LLD speakers. We are glad to have Nicolas Van Puymbroeck and Anaïs Wouters in our team! #PSIT #MigrationEU
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The #EUWEBPSI team met once again in person to discuss our achievements and strengthen our commitment to improving access to basic services with quality interpreting services. Our partner METAdrasi hosted us in sunny Athens where we were given an insight into the local reality. This day of interesting exchanges enabled our team to look to the upcoming work with a renovated sense of purpose! #PSI #Asylum
The importance of providing quality interpretation services was the focus of the meeting of representatives of institutions and universities from Belgium, France, the United Kingdom, Austria and Greece, which took place at METAdrasi's offices, on Wednesday 18 September 2024, in the framework of the EU-WEBPSI project. This project focuses on addressing the unequal access of refugees and migrants to basic public services across the EU due to the lack of trained interpreters in less widely used languages. METAdrasi - the only organization in Greece that has designed and implements, since 2010, an organized system of training, certification and coordination of interpretation requests from all over the country - recognizing the importance of interpretation in this context, implements a 300-hour interpreter training program, which includes, among other things, a two-month internship. The aim is to create an innovative European online platform offering remote video interpreting, facilitating access to essential services. During the meeting, the participants were informed about the progress of the project and participated in an online meeting with Ms Kakosimou, Director of Support of the Asylum Service, who spoke to them about the way the Greek Asylum Service operates. They then visited the Reception and Identification Centre (RIC) in Malakassa, where the Commander, Mr Christou, informed them about the reception and registration process of refugees. The meeting, among other things, highlighted the necessity of providing quality community interpretation. METAdrasi continues to show its commitment to supporting refugees and migrants, with innovative interventions aimed at improving their reception and integration conditions in Greece.
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Meet Our Partners #6! We are very pleased to introduce you to Savvas Papadopoulos and Elpida Nomikou from METAdrasi. The Greek organisation unfolds its activities in various humanitarian support areas. Some of their core tasks include the deployment of interpreters in 60 languages to support communication, the assistance of unaccompanied minors and the education and integration of migrants and refugees. It is a delight to have METAdrasi as an addition to our #EUWEBPSI team. Their knowledge on migration is enriching and extremely useful in current and future activities. In terms of their involvement in the project, they are responsible for both the recruitment and certification of public service interpreters in Greece and the provision of interpreters at a later stage of the project. We continue breaking down language barriers, one interpreter at a time 💥 #PSIT #MigrationEU
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