ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2022

Thursday 21 April 2022 at 18.00

Rune conference room, Korjaamo, Töölönkatu 51 A-B, 00250 Helsinki

The agenda, as laid out in our 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 scrutinize the minutes and two individuals to count the votes at the meeting where necessary
  3. Verification that the meeting is lawful and that those present form a quorum
  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 2021 and the operating plan for 2022 by the Chairperson of NEaT. The treasurer will comment on the budget for 2022.
  8. Confirmation of the operating plan and the budget
  9. Confirmation of the membership subscription
  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 Lauri Mäkelä as the auditor for 2022, with Tomi Snellman as deputy auditor.
  13. Consideration of any other business specified in the invitation to the meeting.

We invite all interested members to join us for the meeting. Please RSVP to info@nordicedit.fi by 14 April 2022 to ensure enough coffee and refreshments for all. You are also welcome to attend without prior notice, in which case coffee and refreshments cannot be guaranteed. 

Best wishes,

The Board of NEaT 

NEaT mentoring 2022

NEaT is launching a mentoring scheme in 2022 to share experience and expertise among its members.  Mentors provide 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. Mentees will have a clear goal or skill related to their work as translators or editors that they want to work on over the sessions.

NEaT mentors offer the following:

Specialisms: medical, sciences, academic, historical texts (primary and secondary sources), nonfiction books, public service, audiovisual and subtitling, plain and easy English

Linguistic core skills: Finnish and Swedish to English translation, Finnish authorised translator certification, copy-editing, proofreading 

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 LSP market, networking, setting up and working as a sole trader/toiminimi, business/entrepreneurship skills and practice


The programme is open to NEaT members only. If you are interested to join, contact Kate Sotejeff-Wilson for more information.

A NEaT holiday party

A NEaT holiday party 
3 December at 6 pm
PAM Office, Säästöpankinranta 4 C 21, Helsinki
On Zoom at 7 pm

Since the winter holidays are approaching, NEaT members are all about eating and words. You are invited to a NEaT holiday party to present your creative take on food in our editing slam, participate in a quiz on food in fiction and bring a dish to share from your favorite book. 

This year, we’ll meet both in person and remotely! Come meet your fellow NEaT members at Säästöpankinranta, or if you can’t make it, join us remotely during the program at 7 pm at this link:

Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 968 2489 1446
Passcode: 811349

An editing slam is a duel of editing skills, and this one is a battle over tone of voice. If you would like to participate in the editing slam, sign up here. 

Don’t forget the potluck! Bring a dish to share inspired by any work of fiction, book or film. Go literal, like a plum pie from Dickens, or just be inspired and bring New York bagels after watching The Godfather.

NEaT will supply the opening toast and coffee, but if you want something to drink with the food, please bring your own beverages.
RSVP to info@nordicedit.fi and tell us whether you are coming to the party in person or if you will participate on Zoom.

Course on tech tools

Want to know more about tech tools that we language professionals could use to make our work easier? Are there tools you’ve often wondered about but never got around to learning about? Kenneth Quek will talk to you about these different tools for an hour at 18:00 EET on Tuesday 16 November. Look out for his questionnaire and the signup link on the NEaT google mailing list and let him know what tools you would like to learn about.

To sign up for this session, please email: info@nordicedit.fi