EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT PROGRAMME (EP) – Financial support for training in conference interpreting – 2026

Objectives

• To organize high-quality master or post-graduate courses in conference interpreting
• To support excellence, cooperation or research in conference interpreter training
• To organize high-quality master, post-graduate or bachelor courses offering conference interpreter training in Ukrainian, Montenegrin and Albanian (2026-2027)

Among financed actions

• Training

Eligibility

• Be Higher-Education Institutions, Universities, university institutes, consortia and associations of universities or institutes, which offer or coordinate postgraduate courses specialising in conference interpreting
• Be associations, consortia and bodies, whose main mission is to support cooperation and disseminate best practices in the field of worldwide conference interpreter training
• For topic 3 only Higher-Education Institutions, Universities, university institutes, consortia and associations of universities or institutes offering or coordinating master, postgraduate courses or bachelor conference interpreting courses in Ukrainian, Montenegrin and Albanian.
• Teaching establishments must be approved by their national authorities as public or private bodies charged with a public task of teaching and organising courses at master or postgraduate level in the field of conference interpreting
• Be established in one of the eligible countries:
  • EU Member States
  • EFTA countries: Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway and Switzerland
  • Non-EU countries: candidate country for future membership of the European Union (Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Serbia, Türkiye and Ukraine)

Additional information

• Initial duration of the action: the project must end by 31 August 2027 at the latest

Exceptions are possible when duly justified by the applicant and accepted by the European Parliament.

• Contact: LINC.grants@ep.europa.eu

Useful

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

• Total budget of the call: 750,000 euros
• Budget per topic:
  • EP-LINC-SUBV-2026-CONF-INT-01: 450,000 euros
  • EP-LINC-SUBV-2026-CONF-INT-02: 150,000 euros
  • EP-LINC-SUBV-2026-CONF-INT-03: 150,000 euros