This year, Fedasil launched the mobile website, Fedasil Info, which is a multilingual, intuitive information channel for asylum seekers.  The website offers information about 8 themes (asylum and procedure, living, life in Belgium, return, work, unaccompanied minors, health and learning) in 12 languages (Dutch, French, English, Arabic, Farsi, Pashto, Russian,…

Just like every year, Cronos organised a warm Christmas market in Kontich and this year Untranslate was also present! Just like some other Cronos companies, we put our shoulders under a warm action. In favour of The Book Caravan (De Boekenkaravaan) we sold warm Christmas cards with wishes in different…

Once again, in June, GentVertaalt organised another Language Conference. The conference took place at the Novotel Gent Centrum on Saturday 22 June 2019. GentVertaalt is an on-line and off-line initiative that brings language professionals together from the Ghent area and (much) further. For example, there is a Facebook group in…

2 September 2019, the first school day for many Belgian pupils, but also ‘back-to-school’ for some translation technology enthusiasts. According to annual custom, KU Leuven organised the Translation Technology Summer School. For one week, Antwerp was the translation industry’s Valhalla with participants from all over the world: Azerbaijan, Belgium, Finland,…

Drum roll please; let’s hear it for Untranslate because we have something to celebrate. At the beginning of May, Untranslate comprehensively passed a double audit and were awarded ISO certification for post-editing machine translation from KIWA, a Dutch accredited certification body. The translation profession is not regulated, which basically means…

“But I would walk 500 miles. And I would walk 500 more… ”  Anyone can sing along to this lyrics, but who actually means it? On Sunday 28 April, Cronos rose to the challenge of the Antwerp 10 Miles. 5 km, 10 miles, or even a full marathon, anything was…

Now that the Christmas enthusiasts have finally said goodbye to their favourite season, a new, blissful period is coming up for chocolate lovers. Chocoholics, rejoice! Here comes the Easter Bunny! During the Christmas period, we all gifted ‘Light for the world’ many likes. Their video even got shared 11,759 times…

It’s the most wonderful time of the year– or, almost… But we can already start counting down to Simply having a wonderful Christmas time! This means delicious food and drinks, having a great time with your family and friends, lots of presents, fireworks, Jingle bells, and much more. Not surprising…

In the first week of September, the University of Leuven (KU Leuven) organised the third edition of the Translation Technology Summer School. The programme is suitable for language professionals who are looking for a practice-oriented and state-of-the-art introduction to translation and localisation issues and tools. Ever since the first edition…