All teachers working at the Department of Translation Studies, FA, CPU in Nitra have a lot of translation and interpreting experience and participate in significant local and international research projects in the field of translation and interpreting studies, computer linguistics, machine or audiovisual translation, etc.
Master’s study programmes in translation and interpreting FA CPU were awarded the international quality certificate European Master’s in Translation (EMT), adding our master’s studies to the network of the highest quality translation studies programmes among European universities entitled to use the label and logo EMT.
We follow the rich tradition of theoretical research in translation studies in Nitra going back to the 1970s and 1980s. At that time, Nitra was already well known in the field of translation studies both in Slovakia and abroad thanks to Professor Anton Popovič and his colleagues from the Institute of Literary Communication at the former Pedagogical Faculty in Nitra.
At the beginning of 2021, a consortium of European university and non-university workplaces applied for approval of a grant from the European Commission’s AMIF fund (Asylum, Migration and Integration Fund).
The Department of Translation Studies, in cooperation with the European Commission, organised on June 10, 2021 an online presentation dedicated to the translation software Trados. The software was presented by translators from the Slovak Translation Unit of the European Commission, Jana Tomašcová, who works as a quality coordinator, and Matej Vlačiha, an expert on translation technologies.
In early June, the Summer School of Audiovisual Translation took place at the Department of Translation Studies FA CPU in Nitra. The Summer School of AVT included several workshops on dubbing, audiocommentary, and subtitling led by well-known experts.
The From Translation to Accessibility: EMT Train the Trainer Summer School saw participation by nearly 400 participants from not only Europe, but also Australia, Argentine, Brasil, Canada, Chile, Indonesia, Peru, Katar, Saudi Arabia, USA, Venezuela, China, and Singapore. Thus it became a professional event with one of the largest number of participants from around the world organized by the university to date.
The Department of Translation Studies, Faculty of Arts, CPU in Nitra, worked with the Slovak Unit of the Directorate- General for Translation of the European Commission on a project dedicated to the translation of selected problematic phrases, which are characteristic of institutional texts.
On Friday 16 April 2021, Patrick J. Corness, visiting professor of translation at Coventry University, gave an online lecture titled Some experiences of an English translator from Slavonic languages to students of the Department of Translation Studies FA CPU in Nitra.