University networking in training for public service intepreting and translating: present and future

The article highlights the social demand for public service interpreters and translators, studies key methodological and administrative aspects that are to be discussed when launching the university-based network of masters' programs on Public Service Interpreting and Translation (PSIT). The University of Alcalá de Henares(Madrid, Spain) and the Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow, Russian Federation) are taken as examples to share the experience.

public servise, transalting and interpreting for public service, multilingualism, language and culture mediation, intercultural communication, transaltor and interpreter training