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NEaT AGM 2025

We invite all members to join us for the NEaT Annual General Meeting on Thursday, 10 April 2025 at 5 pm EET, 4 pm CET.

The AGM is hybrid, on zoom and in person at Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51, A-B, in Helsinki. We have reserved the Rune Room.

Welcome! RSVP on this form by 2 April 2025 if you are attending in person so we know numbers. You are also welcome to attend without prior notice.

The Zoom link will be sent to all members of NEaT one day before the AGM.

Following the meeting, you are welcome to stay for food and drink in person or to socialise with other members online.

Best wishes,

The Board of NEaT

The AGM 2025 agenda, as laid out in NEaT's constitution, is as follows

The Annual General Meeting of the Association shall consider the following business.

1 Opening of the meeting.

2 Election of a chairperson, a secretary, two individuals to scrutinise the minutes, and two individuals to count the votes at the meeting where necessary.

3 Verification that the meeting is lawful.

4 Approval of the agenda for the meeting.

5 Presentation of the financial statements and the annual report by the treasurer.

6 Decision to confirm the financial statements and discharge the Board and other accountable persons from liability, subject to the auditor’s report.

7 Presentation of the activities in 2024 and the operating plan for 2025 by the Chair of NEaT. The treasurer will comment on the budget for 2025.

8 Confirmation of the operating plan and the budget.

9 Confirmation of the membership subscription. It is proposed that the membership subscription remain 40 euros.

10 Reports on events, education, cooperation and communications by the chairs of the respective committees.

11 Election of the Chair and other members and deputy members of the Board for the following year.

12 Election of one auditor and one deputy auditor. The board proposes Tomi Snellman as the auditor for 2025, with Matthew Paines as deputy auditor.

13 Consideration of any other business specified in the invitation to the meeting

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Welcome to Nordic Editors and Translators

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.

In the news – LibGen

Library Genesis: no one can do everything, but everyone can do something. And you’d like to do something, then
(1) Search LibGen for your pirated work.
(2) Write to Meta telling them they don’t have the right to use it.

⌘ LibGen is an illegal pirate site used by Meta (Facebook, Insta) and other companies to train their generative AI. It has millions of stolen publications.

⌘ The Atlantic have a public search tool for LibGen where you can see if you’ve been pirated.

⌘ The Authors Guild have a template so you can write to the companies that have used your pirated work.

⌘ The Authors Guild have put together one of the clearest accounts of what is going on.

Respect to the Authors Guild and the Atlantic for their work on the LibGen scandal. Credit to the Authors Guild for the picture.

Partner event – EASE conference

Something to do later in the spring: our partner, the European Association of Science Editors, has just opened registration for the 18th EASE conference in Olso and online, 14–16 May 2025.

If you attend in person, it’s worth staying on to experience Syttende mai, Norway’s national day.

https://ease.org.uk/ease-events/18th-ease-conference

NEaT event – Aligning expectations workshop

We are pleased to announce that NEaT’s Kenneth Quek is going to share his advice for aligning expectations in a workshop on Friday 21 March.

⌘ Friday, 21 March 2025
⌘ 13.00–15.00 EET
⌘ Open to all, free for members
⌘ Register for the zoom link

Kenneth will talk about the expectations of various stakeholders regarding any given piece of editing or translation work – those of our client, the end-users of the text, institutions and authorities, and ourselves the service providers. The work is successful only when the expectations of all these stakeholders are fulfilled – but what do we do when those expectations are onerous, overly ambitious, or even mutually contradictory? When do we say “no” and when do we roll up our sleeves and get to work? Hopefully this will lead into a lively discussion and sharing of our experiences and working practices!