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Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences (DG LINC) collaborates with universities and organisations specialising in conference interpreter training to ensure the availability of a sufficient number of qualified conference interpreters to cover the service needs.

DG LINC wishes to support the following topics in the field of interpretation:

• promotion of quality and linguistic diversity in the teaching of conference interpreting in the official languages of the EU, of the candidate countries and of the countries which are the main political partners of the Union;
• The establishment of postgraduate centres of excellence;
• Cooperation among postgraduate courses from different European, candidate and third countries offering relevant language combinations;
• Regional cooperation among universities with complementary language regimes; and
• Integration of modern information and communication technologies in the training of conference interpreters

Topic 2: Promotion of excellence in conference interpreter training, cooperation among universities training conference interpreters and research into technical developments in the area of conference interpreting.

• An application for a grant will not be automatically successful.
• A topic may only receive one grant from the EU budget (non-cumulative award).
• A grant is a form of complementary funding, to promote European Union objectives, based on the principle of co-financing and may not finance the total cost of the topic or generate profits.
• Income and expenditure of the proposed budget must be detailed and in balance and may not have the purpose or effect of generating a profit for the beneficiary. If the total amount paid as pre-financing by the European Parliament exceeds the final amount of the grant determined at the end of the topic, any amounts overpaid by the European Parliament have to be reimbursed by the beneficiary concerned.
• Only costs directly related and necessary for the topic may be co-financed.
•  The European Parliament’s maximum rate of funding is 75% of total eligible costs.
• No grant may be awarded retrospectively for topics already started or completed. However, should a grant be awarded, certain agreed costs incurred by the beneficiary, before the signature of the agreement are eligible for co-funding (e.g. aptitude tests, preparation of the course), if they are linked to the programme cycle of the study year to which the grant is referring, provided that they are included and accepted in the grant agreement. Costs incurred prior to the submission date of the application are not eligible for co-funding.

• Education and training

• Educational Institutions
• NGOs
• Non Profit Organisations
• Semi-governmental organisations
• State-owned Enterprises
• Training Centres

Higher-Education Institutions, Universities, university institutes, consortia and associations of universities or institutes, which offer or coordinate postgraduate courses specialising in conference interpreting.

Associations, consortia and bodies, whose main mission is to support cooperation and disseminate best practices in the field of worldwide conference interpreter training.

Teaching establishments must be approved by their national authorities as public or private bodies charged with a public task of teaching and organising courses at master or postgraduate level in the field of conference interpreting. If the applicant is not a teaching establishment, its mission must nevertheless be related to the objectives of this programme and be recognised by the national authorities where it is established.

Applicants must be legally established in one of the Member States of the European Union, in one of the EFTA countries or in a candidate country for future membership of the European Union.

Applicants must ensure that none of the involved entities are subject to EU restrictive measures adopted under Article 29 of the Treaty on the European Union (TEU) or Article 215 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the EU (TFEU). The prohibition applies throughout the whole performance of the Grant Agreement.

LINC.grants@ep.europa.eu,  no later than 02/05/2023

(Publish Date: 21/03/2023-for internal use only)

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