Join NEaT

The requirement for full membership is three years of experience working as a language professional.

You demonstrate that you meet the requirement by listing the jobs you have held or the services performed in the application form. This membership requirement can be bypassed by a written personal reference from an existing member of NEaT.

The membership fee must be paid before the board will consider your membership application.

After applying, you are a prospective member until the next board meeting, when prospective members are accepted by a vote of the board, which can take individual circumstances into consideration.

The membership period is until the end of the year after the first year of membership and yearly thereafter.

The trial membership is for students and for those new to the profession. You can apply by checking the appropriate box on the membership application. Trial membership gives you access to our mentoring programme, networking, and courses, but you will not be a voting member or have access to our job-sharing resources.

Trial membership enables younger and new language professionals to join at a lower membership fee. After three years of working as a language professional or active learning about the field in full-time education you may join as a full member.

The Nordic Editors and Translators (NEaT) association would like its membership process to be fair, clear and beneficial to the association.

NEaT exists to support professional translators and editors in their work through training and networking. NEaT is not an educational body that trains future professionals.

An application to join NEaT is an expression of intent to comply with NEaT's Rules of Association (available in Finnish and English).

Please complete the NEaT membership application form.

As a registered association in Finland, we are required to have a record of your full name, district of residence, and country of residence.

Please pay your first annual subscription of €40 for membership or €25 for trial membership  (How to pay)

Payment of the annual subscription is understood as an expression of intent to join the association and to comply with NEaT's Rules of Association.

Your first subscription covers the remainder of the year in which you joined and the whole of the following calendar year.