Rea’s Summer Placement at Sofita . My first-year summer internship took place in partnership with Sofia-based Sofita Translation agency. Having already interacted with the company as a client when I needed documents translating into Bulgarian to enrol at New Bulgarian University, and given that the placement coordinator for Sofita also happened to be one of my dissertation supervisors and had […]
Polina’s Summer Placement at Mitra . For me EMTTI is the most holistic program available at the moment. It lets you consider your interests and chances. You get an opportunity to try a bit of everything and pick an area of specialisation. You think it’s only about translating? Ha! During our UMA curriculum we tried a wide variety of things. […]
Nadia’s Summer Placement at Mitra . My placement at Mitra Translations, in Sofia (Bulgaria) has started on the 1st of September 2020 and it will last approximately 160 hours over a one month period, which equates to almost four full-time working weeks. As required, part of placement is conducted online and part onsite. I was offered the possibility to undertake […]
Anna’s Summer Placement at Wordfast . When I started my studies at the University of Wolverhampton, I was determined to enter the world of software development and enrich my professional profile with new technical skills. The same reason motivated me to select my summer work placement in the programming industry, so I could have some insights on how the real […]
Frank’s Summer Placement at Sofita. . For my placement, I chose SOFITA Translation Agency in Sofia, Bulgaria. Founded in 1989, the company currently organizes, trains, and coordinates more than 1000 interpreters, translators, and editors to provide translation, localization, interpreting, legalization and other language-related services for over 100 translation companies over the world, with unity and commitment as their core values. […]
Olha’s Summer Placement at Kudo Over the past six months, the world has almost completely shifted to the virtual space and many placements this year have had to be done virtually as well. Luckily, I have chosen the right kind of company to do that. KUDO is one of the world leaders in the videoconferencing and remote simultaneous interpreting (RSI). […]
Ali’s Summer Placement at Unbabel Integrating human expertise and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to overcome language barriers in communication. This is a comprehensive definition that reflects Unbabel’s goal. Unbabel is a private company that was founded in 2013 with headquarters in Lisbon and San Francisco. The main activity of the company is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered human translation platform […]
Halyna’s Summer Placement at Mitra Translations I have chosen MiTRa Translations for the placement in 2020. Due to the pandemic, many companies offered only virtual placement as their work force was home working. However, I still wanted to see from the inside how a company functions, to observe all the steps of the workflow as well as to learn the […]
Karina’s Summer Placement at Mitra Translations For my placement I chose Mitra Translations Agency in Sofia, Bulgaria. The company was founded in 1989, in Shumen and now it has three offices located in Sofia, Varna and Shumen. Today Mitra Translations is one of the biggest MLP (Multi Language Provider) in Bulgaria. They offer a wide range of services and have […]
EM TTI placements for this summer have now all been confirmed. Thank you to our wonderful Associated Partners for providing placements for EM TTI students! Due to the current world pandemic, the placements this summer will be a mixture of virtual and physical placements. EM TTI’s system of mandatory placements will equip our students with professional skills and competences, tailored […]
