ReTrans – Working with Interpreters in Refugee Transit Zones: Capacity building and awareness-raising for higher education contexts
ReTrans develops digital training materials to raise awareness for interpreting in humanitarian and transborder migration contexts. By equipping students and teachers of higher education interpreter institutions with easy-to-use didactic materials, the project contributes to the diversification of educational tools in interpreter education and addresses needs and challenges experienced by individuals, interpreters, and institutions in refugee transit zones.
ReTrans Blog
Visit the ReTrans Blog and read news about our project activities.
LGBTIQ+, Queer, SOGIESC: Addressing (terminological) insecurities when interpreting for queer communities
Did you ever come across the term LGBTIQ+? Maybe you’ve read it several times but you are unsure what each and every letter really stands for? Perhaps you’ve wondered and/or led vivid discussions about how many letters make up the acronym and how many more will join...
3-2-1-GO: Meet ReTrans!
Welcome! It’s great to have you here, we were actually just thinking about you. And now you are probably wondering, why? We’ll come to that in a minute, but first things first: let us introduce ourselves. We are ReTrans which is short for Working with Interpreters in...
Training Materials
In the ReTrans Project we develop Training Materials to support interpreters in refugee transit zones. The materials will be releases early 2023.
ReTrans Community
With our ReTrans Community Discord Server we want to promote international exchange and communication between interpreters, especially those working in transit zones. We also invite everyone with an interest in the topic to become part of our community (e.g. stakeholders, researchers, students, journalists).