language industry why does it matter ?
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Origins of the Language Industry Web Platform (LIND-Web)
• DGT Study in 2009 – Size of the Language Industry – showed an industry unrecognised but in full expansion
Study results
• Estimated total value of the language industry in the EU in 2008: 8.6 billion €
• Estimated annual growth: 10%
• Estimated value of the language industry in the EU in 2015: 16.8 billion €
Challenges
• Lack of common statistics
• Need for more visibility
• Synergies between different sectors
New challenges
• Matching skills with markets
• Industry's voice in training
• Ensuring continuity
• Growing together
LIND-Web promotes language industry through
Sharing information through the platform on the industry and its different sub-sectors
Cooperating with all industry stakeholders to raise awareness about the potential of the language industry
Highlighting the growth prospects of this high-level industry
Language Industry and Training
• Cooperation in EMT selection with the view of
• Improving employability• Matching skills with market• Encouraging industry-academia
dialogue
LIND-Web Editorial Board
ec.europa.eu/language-industry
content quality
project
ambassador
suser-friendliness
Platform Editorial Board
forward thinking
industry expertise
inspiration
Translating Europe
translatores
Join us at
Translating Europe Forum
18-19 September 2014, Brussels
Registration: ec.europa.eu/language-industry
Webstreaming will also be available
Synergies between the industry and other European projects
Signature of Memoranda of Understanding with GALA and EUATC
At the LIND-Web Forum in Brussels, 24 May 2012
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