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English as a Lingua Nordica – Language in a Changing World (#ELN2024) conference will be held at Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki in Turku/Åbo, Finland, 30–31 August 2024.

English as a Lingua Nordica (ELN) is a seminar series by Nordic Editors and Translators (NEaT), a community of English-language professionals in and beyond the Nordic countries. 

We are happy to announce that in 2024, we will be organizing our first two-day conference under the ELN concept together with trade union Kieliasiantuntijat (Language Experts): English as a Lingua Nordica – Language in a Changing World (#ELN2024).

Turku/Åbo is a bilingual city in southwest Finland, with a direct ferry link to Stockholm, good train connections to Helsinki, and a strong tradition of language and translation studies. The venue, Visitor and Innovation Centre Joki, is located at the heart of the Turku Science Park, between the universities.

The theme for 2024 is Language in a Changing World. See programme and information. Registration is open until 7 August 2024 here.

Any questions? Contact the organizers on eln@nordicedit.fi.

In partnership with:

The Federation of Finnish Learned Societies, established in 1899, is a national co-operative body for learned societies in Finland. It contributes to the co-operation between learned societies, supports and develops scholarly communication and publishing, and promotes awareness and usage of research results. It also supports and develops the role of its members in science policy discussion. https://www.tsv.fi/en
Accent Language Service is leading Nordic provider of language services. Founded in 1997, we were passionate from the start about helping the higher education sector with translation and proofreading services. A wide range of the country’s universities, public authorities and companies entrust us with their language projects. We also have a good reputation as a Nordic supplier for many foreign translation agencies and companies. https://www.accent-sweden.com/
MOT Kielipalvelu® offers versatile tools for professional use: high-quality dictionaries, data secure machine translations, and always useful proofreading. campaigns.sanakirja.fi/eln
The language services and technology company LanguageWire is known for its advanced technology solutions and high level of data security. By combining advanced AI with human expertise, LanguageWire’s language management ecosystem offers secure technology solutions and services to make customers’ work easier. The language management ecosystem developed by LanguageWire enables enterprises to engage and communicate with any audience across the globe. https://www.languagewire.com/
Experience Turku, its surroundings and the beautiful archipelago by booking day tours, activities and multiday packages at https://bookturku.fi/en/

ELN2024 offers our partners a range of packages, including visibility both at the event and beforehand, on this website and on social media. If you are interested to sponsor the conference, please fill in this form.