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Language Industry Why does it matter ?

Language Industry Why does it matter ?. Inkaliisa Vihonen European Commission. Origins of the Language Industry Web Platform (LIND-Web). DGT Study in 2009 – Size of the Language Industry – showed an industry unrecognised but in full expansion. Study results.

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Language Industry Why does it matter ?

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  1. Language Industry Why does it matter? Inkaliisa Vihonen European Commission

  2. Origins of the Language Industry Web Platform (LIND-Web) • DGT Study in 2009 – Size of the Language Industry – showed an industry unrecognised but in full expansion

  3. Study results • Estimated total value of the language industry in the EU in 2008: 8.6 billion € • Estimated annual growth: 10% • Estimated value of the language industry in the EU in 2015: 16.8 billion €

  4. Challenges • Lack of common statistics • Need for more visibility • Synergies between different sectors

  5. New challenges • Matching skills with markets • Industry's voice in training • Ensuring continuity • Growing together

  6. LIND-Web promotes language industry through • Sharing information through the platform on the industry and its different sub-sectors • Cooperating with all industry stakeholders to raise awareness about the potential of the language industry • Highlighting the growth prospects of this high-level industry

  7. Contact pointec.europa.eu/language-industry

  8. Language Industry and Training • Cooperation in EMT selection with the view of • Improvingemployability • Matchingskills with market • Encouragingindustry-academiadialogue

  9. LIND-Web Editorial Board project ambassadors user-friendliness content quality Platform Editorial Board forward thinking industry expertise inspiration ec.europa.eu/language-industry

  10. Translating Europe Join us at Translating Europe Forum 18-19 September 2014, Brussels Registration: ec.europa.eu/language-industry Webstreaming will also be available translatores

  11. Synergies between the industry and other European projects Signature of Memoranda of Understanding with GALA and EUATC At the LIND-Web Forum in Brussels, 24 May 2012

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