Translating Europe Workshop: LT-LiDER – fostering digital and AI literacy in translation
3 September 2026, TH Köln (Südstadt Campus), Ubierring 48, D-50678 Cologne, Germany
LT-LiDER
(Bild: Generaldirektion Übersetzung, Manuela Schlömmer)
Join us to learn about LT-LiDER (Language and Translation: Literacy in Digital Environments and Resources), a project funded by Erasmus+ that helps translation professionals, educators, institutions and policymakers develop the digital and AI skills needed in today's language industry.
Agenda
- 9:00 Welcome: Ralph Krüger, TH Köln, and Manuela Schlömmer, European Commission/Directorate General of Translation (on-site/online)
- 9:15 AI@EC: AI-based multilingual services of the European Commission
- 9:45 General overview of the LT-LiDER project and other related Erasmus+ projects in the field (LT-LiDER part: Mireia Vargas Urpí and Ester Torres Simón, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, online)
- 10:15 Practical Session A: Presentation of the LT-LiDER Open-Access Book "Developing AI Literacy for Translation" (Joss Moorkens, Dublin City University, online)
- 10:45 Break
- 11:00 Practical session B: Overview of the LT-LiDER Training Path (including the self-assessment questionnaire and the training capsules) and presentation of ProMut – the LT-LIDER NMT platform (Dragoș Ciobanu and Alina Secară, University of Vienna, online)
- 11:40 Practical Session C: Technological sovereignty. Generative AI on your own computer (Miquel Esplà-Gomis, Universitat d’Alacant, online)
- 12:10 Practical Session D: Python for translators (Janiça Hackenbuchner, Ghent University, Ralph Krüger, TH Köln, and Sergi Álvarez-Vidal, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, on-site/online)
- 12:30 Goodbye