Helping export businesses implement a multilingual strategy
16 November 1999 - 16 November 1999
United Kingdom
The European Commission's Multilingual Information Society (MLIS) node for Scotland and Northern Ireland is continuing its series of awareness and demonstration events with a half-day seminar entitled "Multilingual Skills Mean Business" on 1 December 1999 in Glasgow, UK.
The MLIS programme encourages exporting companies to implement a language strategy in order to increase their business opportunities in export markets with a different mother tongue. The Scotland and Northern Ireland node is cooperating with the Languages for Business Unit of the University of Strathclyde to promote the event, which targets representatives of exporting companies, and especially export department managers whose responsibilities include ensuring that their staff maximise their potential to secure business within Europe by improving their multilingual skills.
Participants will receive information and see demonstrations of a range of tools available in digital form, both offline and online, to improve employees' language-learning and translation skills. They will also be shown the potential of Web-based systems to assist translation, and be able to hear about case studies in this area.
For further information, please contact:
Scottish Enterprise
Lorna Cullen
120 Bothwell Street
Glasgow G2 7JP
Scotland, UK
Tel. +44-141-2282423; Fax +44-141-2282882
E-mail: lorna.cullen@midas-net.org.uk
URL: http://www.midas-net.org.uk/mlishome/(opens in new window)
The MLIS programme encourages exporting companies to implement a language strategy in order to increase their business opportunities in export markets with a different mother tongue. The Scotland and Northern Ireland node is cooperating with the Languages for Business Unit of the University of Strathclyde to promote the event, which targets representatives of exporting companies, and especially export department managers whose responsibilities include ensuring that their staff maximise their potential to secure business within Europe by improving their multilingual skills.
Participants will receive information and see demonstrations of a range of tools available in digital form, both offline and online, to improve employees' language-learning and translation skills. They will also be shown the potential of Web-based systems to assist translation, and be able to hear about case studies in this area.
For further information, please contact:
Scottish Enterprise
Lorna Cullen
120 Bothwell Street
Glasgow G2 7JP
Scotland, UK
Tel. +44-141-2282423; Fax +44-141-2282882
E-mail: lorna.cullen@midas-net.org.uk
URL: http://www.midas-net.org.uk/mlishome/(opens in new window)