EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT – Financial support for training in conference interpreting – 2025

Objectives

• To ensure that the European Parliament’s proceedings can be followed in real-time in all official languages of the European Union
• To collaborate with universities and organizations specializing in conference interpreter training
• To promote quality and linguistic diversity in the teaching of conference interpreting in the official languages of the EU, candidate countries, and the Union’s main political partners
• To establish postgraduate centers of excellence
• To encourage cooperation among postgraduate courses from different European, candidate, and third countries offering relevant language combinations
• To foster regional cooperation among universities with complementary language regimes
• To integrate modern information and communication technologies in the training of conference interpreters

Among financed actions

• Organisation of high-quality master or post-graduate courses in conference interpreting
• Promotion of excellence in conference interpreter training, cooperation among universities training conference interpreters, and research into technical developments in the area of conference interpreting
• Organisation of high-quality master, post-graduate, or bachelor courses by Ukrainian universities with conference interpreting components

Eligibility

• Be a legal person
• Be a private entity
• Be a Higher-Education Institutions, Universities, consortia and associations of universities or institutes
• Be an association, consortia and bodies

• Initial duration of the action: 15 months
• Contact: LINC.grants@ep.europa.eu (no later than 22/04/2025)

Useful

• Guidelines: Click here
• Other call documents: Click here
• DG website: Click here
• More information: Click here

• Total budget of the call: 734.000 euro
• Budget per topic:
  • EP-LINC-SUBV-2025-CONF-INT-01: 434.000 euro
  • EP-LINC-SUBV-2025-CONF-INT-02: 150.000 euro
  • EP-LINC-SUBV-2025-CONF-INT-03: 150.000 euro
• Funding rate: up to 75% of the total eligible costs