On Janu­ary 1, 2017 nine European organ­isa­tions* offi­cially launched the PETRA‑E Net­work for the Edu­ca­tion and Train­ing of Lit­er­ary Trans­lat­ors. The part­ners will expand, imple­ment and fur­ther devel­op the PETRA‑E Frame­work, the res­ult of the suc­cess­ful Erasmus+ fun­ded PETRA‑E pro­ject (2014–2016), and will provide a col­lab­or­at­ive space for the dis­cus­sion of related top­ics.

The PETRA‑E Frame­work maps out com­pet­ences and levels in lit­er­ary trans­lat­ing. It serves to improve the qual­ity of lit­er­ary trans­la­tions and the vis­ib­il­ity of lit­er­ary trans­lat­ors in Europe. It is now avail­able in nine lan­guages: Bul­gari­an, Dutch, Eng­lish, French, Ger­man, Hun­gari­an, Itali­an, Por­tuguese and Span­ish.

In the short time since the Frame­work was launched, a large num­ber of organ­isa­tions has shown interest in becom­ing involved in the fur­ther devel­op­ment. The Net­work wel­comes new mem­bers, aca­dem­ic and non-academic, who are com­mit­ted to the PETRA‑E Frame­work and its under­ly­ing prin­ciples, and wish to imple­ment the Frame­work in their own insti­tu­tions and pro­grammes and con­trib­ute to its fur­ther devel­op­ment. The first meet­ing will be held in the Autumn of 2017. We are cur­rently approach­ing the organ­isa­tions that have already shown interest. After the first meet­ing we cer­tainly need oth­er organ­isa­tions to come on board and put the Frame­work into action.

The PETRA‑E pro­ject was recently com­pleted and eval­u­ated with very high rat­ings (93/100).  The Frame­work can be down­loaded here (click on the flag for dif­fer­ent lan­guages). Click here for a data­base with European pro­grams and courses for lit­er­ary trans­la­tion, anoth­er res­ult of the PETRA‑E pro­ject.

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Con­tact

Any enquir­ies and expres­sions of interest can be dir­ec­ted to the PETRA‑E sec­ret­ari­at at the Neder­landse Taalunie:, c/o Karlijn Water­man, Post­bus 10595, NL 2501 HN Den Haag, Neth­er­lands, petra‑e@taalunie.org.

*Cur­rent mem­bers : Brit­ish Centre for Lit­er­ary Trans­la­tion (BCLT), Con­seil Européen des Asso­ci­ations de Tra­duc­teurs Lit­téraires (CEATL), Deutscher Über­set­zer­fonds, Eötvös Loránd Uni­ver­sity (ELTE),  Expert­i­se­centrum Lit­erair Ver­talen (ELV), Fondazione Uni­versit­ar­ia San Pel­legrino (FUSP), KU Leuven, Neder­landse Taalunie, Uni­versiteit Utrecht.

PETRA=Plateforme Européenne pour la Tra­duc­tion Lit­téraire. PETRA‑E= PETRA-Education.