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Prof.
Anthony Pym
WP 4 lead
Mediation – Beyond Communication in a Multilingual World
Task 4.1
Language technologies and industries
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The Universitat Rovira i Virgili was founded in 1991 from existing university centres, restoring the University of Tarragona that dated from the 16th century. The Universitat Rovira i Virgili has faculties and schools in the areas of health sciences, social sciences, humanities, technology and experimental sciences. It has more than 12,000 students. Despite its status as a mid-sized university, it consistently scores among the top institutions in Spain for research and publications.
Task in the project
Through its Intercultural Studies Group, the Universitat Rovira i Virgili is leader of work package 4, on multilingual mediation. It will also lead research task 4.1 on “Language technologies and industries”, a topic that plays a key role in MIME in providing specific knowledge to other teams in other work packages.
Staff
  • Prof. Anthony Pym
  • Nune Ayvazyan
Experience
The work package and task leader is director of the Universitat Rovira i Virgili's Intercultural Studies Group. He has led or carried out several European and Spanish funded research projects on various aspects of translation, mainly on the online training of professionals in localization and translation technologies. His recent European projects have been on the status of the translation profession in Europe (with MIME partner Université de Genève) and the relation between translation and language learning (with the University of Leicester), and he currently participates in a Marie Curie Initial Training Network. He has specific expertise in the use of translation technologies and the sociological modelling of translation and interpreting. The training of researchers is closely allied with the group’s various research projects and annual graduate conference. The group publishes the book series Translation Research Projects (2007, 2009, 2011, 2012).

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 613344 (MIME Project).