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Entrance test for Master's in Conference Interpreteting: September 7th

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The European Union, the largest employer of interpreters in the world, will support the new Master's programme by providing pedagogical assistance and organizing joint virtual classes with the Directorate-General for Interpretation of the European Commission (SCIC) and the Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences of the European Parliament (DG- LINC).

28/06/2018

Starting September 2018,  the Facultat de Traducció i d’Interpretació will offer a new Official Master’s Degree in Conference Interpreting (MUIC) for people who want careers as professional conference interpreters.

The European Union, the largest employer of interpreters in the world, will support the new Master's programme by providing pedagogical assistance and organizing joint virtual classes with the Directorate-General for Interpretation of the European Commission (SCIC) and the Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences of the European Parliament (DG- LINC).

The new Master’s will offer four language combinations, two with Spanish as mother tongue (A) and two with English as mother tongue:

  1. Spanish A; English C, French and German C
  2. Spanish A; English C, and French or German C
  3. English A; Spanish C, French and German C
  4. English A; Spanish C and French or German C
Besides the new language combinations, one of the Master’s novelties will be a mentoring programme provided by Agrupación de Intérpretes de Barcelona (AIB). Through that programme, students will be in contact with and receive advice from highly-skilled professional interpreters working on the world stage.