NEaT deep dive: 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!

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 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

Partner event – OSSN online seminar

The last of this season’s Oxford Scandinavian Studies Network Seminars is ‘Feminism and intersectionality in the visual arts’.

Two papers will be discussed: Corinna Hoffman (Berlin) about Mai Zetterling, and Ekatarina Shorokhodova (Paris) about Swedish photography in the 1970s and 1980s. 

Email OSSN for the Zoom link scandinavianstudies@torch.ox.ac.uk

⌘ Friday, 14 March 2025
⌘ 10.00–12.00 GMT
⌘ Online, open to all

NEaT deep dive: Snacks and grants roundtable

Snacks and grants – everything you ever wanted to know about revising grant applications

Join us for an informal roundtable discussion about how to best meet your clients’ needs when they are working on requests for funding to donor agencies.

Our very own Vanessa Fuller will be giving us advice on revising the language of grant applications. Has a valued client asked you to revise a funding proposal and to comment on its quality? Do you know what the differences are between academic manuscripts and requests for funding for research projects?

⌘ Friday, 28 February 2025
⌘ 13.00–15.00 EET
⌘ Zoom
⌘ Click here to register
⌘ Not a member yet? Join NEaT here https://nordicedit.fi/join/

This NEaT session is free of charge and open to NEaT members only.

After you register, you will receive a zoom link for the session closer to the time. Bring along a snack to enjoy as you learn!