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It is about time for a comprehensive European language & terminology policy and implementation

Looking back into the future

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What we will discuss

A personal agenda Late 20th century EU policy: multilingual society Academic languages under pressure Terminology infrastructure implementation EU and governments: responding to needs!

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Reminder: globalisation of the banana

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Late 20th century EU policy : safeguarding Multilingual European Society

EU internal language needs Human translation Technological orientation MLAP: translation technology Language Engineering Societal orientation Multipurpose language & terminology infrastructure Multilingual Information Society

Multilingual Society

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Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica Amsterdam (Mathematics & Informatics) Research groups

 

Research within CWI is organised into the following clusters:

Probability, Networks and Algorithms

Software Engineering

Modelling, Analysis and Computing

Information Systems

Each cluster consists of three or four groups.

Probability, Networks and Algorithms

Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization

Probability and Stochastic Networks

Cryptology

Algorithms and Complexity

 

Software Engineering

Software Analysis and Transformation  

Foundations of Software Engineering

Multi-agent and Adaptive Computation

Distributed and Interactive Systems

Modelling, Analysis and Computing

Computational and stochastic dynamics

Scientific Computing and Control Theory

Multiscale Modelling and Nonlinear Dynamics

Life Sciences

 

 Information Systems

Database Architectures

Interactive Information Access

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Εθνικό Μετσόβιο Πολυτεχνείο (ΕΜΠ) National Technical University (NTUA)

Τομέας Υδατικών Πόρων και Περιβάλλοντος

Ο Τομέας Υδατικών Πόρων και Περιβάλλοντος ιδρύθηκε το 1982, με γνωστικό αντικείμενο τη μελέτη, από ποσοτική και ποιοτική άποψη, του υδάτινου περιβάλλοντος και των συναφών έργων Πολιτικού Μηχανικού. Καλύπτει εκπαιδευτικά και ερευνητικά (…)

Εφαρμοσμένης Υδραυλικής

Λιμενικών Έργων

Υγειονομικής Τεχνολογίας

Υδρολογίας και Αξιοποίησης Υδατικών Πόρων

Επιστημονικές και τεχνολογικές περιοχές

Μηχανική ρευστών, υδραυλική των επιφανειακών, υπογείων και θαλασσίων υδάτων

Τεχνική υδρολογία, αξιοποίηση και διαχείριση των υδατικών πόρων

Υδαυλικά έργα, φράγματα και υδροηλεκτρικά έργα

Λιμενικά παράκτια και θαλάσσια έργα

Ρύπανση και προστασία του παράκτιου περιβάλλοντος, υγειονομική τεχνολογία και οικολογία.

Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering

The Department of Water Resources and Environmental Engineering was established in 1982. The main scientific areas dealt with by the Department relate to both the qualitative and quantitative aspects of the aquatic environment and the related civil (….)

Applied Hydraulics Laboratory

Harbour Works Laboratory

Sanitary Engineering Laboratory

Hydrology and Water Resources Utilization Laboratory

Scientific and technological areas

Fluid Mechanics; Surface, groundwater and maritime hydraulics

Engineering hydrology; Development and management of water resources

Hydraulic works; Dams; Hydropower plants

Ports, coastal and offshore engineering

Ecology; Sanitary engineering; Pollution and protection of the Environment.

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Conversion to English-Taught Programmes in European Higher Education, % of total programmes

(source: Academic Cooperation Association 2007)

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ETP's

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International conferences to discuss national languages for HE and science

Brussels, 2008 (Dutch/English) Ljubljana, 2010 (Slovenian/English) Tallinn, 2011 (Estonian/English)

Future events: measures to facilitate use of national

languages for HE and science: such as publishing in the national languages

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Terminology infrastructure implementation Absolute goal: the availability of high quality terminology

for all purposes for all languages, in an international context

EU and national agencies to monitor & promote EU and national terminology service centres (TSCs) Networks of domain specialists, clustered by sector Terminology publishers Standards bodies Associations of terminology professionals Research: terminometrics, ontology, coding ..

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EU and governments: respond to needs!

pursue real needs: less experiments, more implementation

citizens take part in societies that are increasingly complex linguistically

professionals of all kinds in all countries speaking many languages

societies employing more efficient and effective languages perform better.

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European LegislationCitations from the Union Treaty

(Preamble, 1957, Heads of State...)

DESIRING to deepen the solidarity between their peoples while respecting their history, their cultures and their traditions

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