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The members of the teaching staff, Zoi Resta and Anastasios Ioannidis, received the Best PhD Student Paper Award at the international conference on translation and interpreting TRANSLATA II of the University of Innsbruck (1/11/2014) for their paper titled: "The transposition of Directive 2010/64/EU and legal, institutional and actual deficiencies of court interpreting in Greece".

Vilelmini Sosoni, Lecturer, became one of the three members of an Ionian University group (the other two being K. Kermanidou, Lecturer, and D. Tsoumakos, Assistant Professor, both from the Department of Informatics of the Ionian University) to succeed in securing funding within the framework of the programme Horizon2020 for a submitted proposal. Out of a total budget of 3 million Euros available for this programme, 400,000 euros will be allotted to the Ionian University and the two Departments. The submitted proposal pertains to machine translation in the context of the Massive Open Online Courses in more than 10 European and BRIC languages.

On the occasion of the 18th World Congress of Sociology (which will take place in Yokohama on July 13th to 19th 2014), this conference on the influence of the Japanese Culture aims to show the interaction between the “globalised” contemporary everyday life and some of its traits considered as of Japanese origins. In this organization (which is meant to be an approach of the culture of the (...)

The External Evaluation Report by the Hellenic Quality Assurance and Accreditation Agency for the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University has been published.

The new book of William Mallinson entitled The Same Things Return with Different Colours is already published.

Paschalis Nikolaou, Lecturer, published three poems in the Turkish poetry journal Şiirden (July-August 2013, issue 18, p.46, www.siirden.net/dergi/2013/18).

The Laboratory for Economic, Legal, Political and Technical Translation of the Department of Foreign Languages, Translation and Interpreting of the Ionian University invites you to the first simulation of UNESCO organized in Greece SimUnesCO (simulation of UNESCO Corfu). The conference will take place in the Ionian university from 21 to 24 August, 2013.   Conference's official (...)