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⌘ ELN2025 The Human Touch
⌘ University of Helsinki and online on Friday 3 October 2025
⌘ Deadline for proposals 09.00 EET on Monday 5 May 2024
We are pleased to invite you to The Human Touch, a seminar organised by NEaT which will be held in Helsinki and online on Friday 3 October 2025.
ELN2025 The Human Touch is one of NEaT’s English as a Lingua Nordica seminars. The theme of this year’s one-day seminar is the human touch in editing and translation.
We welcome proposals for talks and workshops. The deadline for proposals is 09.00 EET (08.00 CET) on Monday 5 May 2025.
Read all about it and submit your proposal here.
The Nordic Editors and Translators organization (NEaT) is a registered association providing education, professional development and networking for editors and translators working in the English language in the Nordic countries.
Members of Nordic Editors and Translators ry (NEaT) consist of editors, translators and language professionals who work primarily in the English language. You are eligible to join if you work as a language professional in, into or from English: join us here.
The NEaT mentoring scheme is running for the fourth year in 2025 for members to share experience and expertise. Mentors give a few hours of their time to mentees to work on a particular issue. This can be core skills in a specific area of translation or editing, or specific business, marketing, IT or other skills related to our work. Regardless of how long you have been working, there are always new skills you might need to learn. Mentees will have a clear goal or skill related to their work as translators or editors that they want to work on over three one-to-one sessions.
NEaT mentors offer the following:
Specialisms: medical, sustainability storytelling, sciences, academic, historical texts (primary and secondary sources), nonfiction books, literary, public service, audiovisual and subtitling, plain and easy English
Linguistic core skills: translation between English and one of the Nordic languages, Finnish authorised translator certification, copy-editing, proofreading, developmental editing
Writing: blogging, copywriting, nonfiction, academic, grant applications, marketing, SEO, content creation
Tech: Overleaf, tech tools for (academic) editing, audiovisual and subtitling
Business skills: navigating the language service market, networking, setting up and working as a sole trader/toiminimi, business/entrepreneurship skills and practice
Other: if you are moving into a new field or developing a new skill not listed here, we will try to match you to a more experienced mentee.
The programme is open to NEaT members only. Note that language professionals with less experience can become trial members of NEaT at a reduced rate. Not a member yet? Join NEaT here.
Mentors are compensated for their time, and mentees make a small contribution to the cost, which is subsidised by NEaT.
If you would like to be a mentor or mentee with NEaT, apply here. The mentoring coordinator will match you up and be in touch as soon as we find the right person for you to work with.
Dear NEaT members, you are welcome to join the AGM on Thursday online if you can’t attend in person.
The link has been emailed to you and is also available by logging in here or in our Facebook and LinkedIn groups.
Problems? info@nordicedit.fi
See you there!
