The study, which is now in its twelfth year, will be open to responses until close of business on Friday, 31st January.
ELIS focuses on the industry trends, expectations and concerns of a wide range of language industry stakeholders, including language service companies, independent language professionals, training institutes with translation and interpreting-related training programmes, language departments in private companies, public administrations, and language service buyers. The survey has specific strands aimed at those diverse segments of the language industry landscape.
While the survey revisits some familiar territory, the 2025 edition delves more deeply into how language professionals and language companies are reacting to the rapid advances in AI. Also, picking up on last year’s survey, which highlighted some challenges around attracting new talent to the sector, a new strand of the survey seeks to determine intern practices, expectations and experiences.
ELIS was originally initiated by European Union of Associations of Translation Companies (EUATC) and is now a joint initiative by international language industry associations and organisations. Apart from the EUATC, those participating are the European Language Industry Association (Elia), the European Master’s in Translation (EMT), the European Regional Centre of the International Federation of Translators (FIT Europe), the Globalization and Localization Association (GALA), the European Commission’s Language Industry Platform (LIND) and Women in Localization (WiL).
The results will be unveiled and dissected by an expert panel during a free-to-attend Translation Europe Workshop webinar organised by the European Commission’s Directorate General for Translation (DGT). That will take place on Tuesday 18th March 2025. Survey participants will be able to pre-register for the event after submitting their responses to the survey. To take part in the 2025 ELIS survey click HERE.
