After a two-year break, the Finnish Language Service Providers SKY will put on the #KIELI2022 conference on 9 September 2022. The theme of the #KIELI2022 conference is growth stories in the language sector. The event will be an opportunity to hear the stories of companies and language experts, and to learn about new developments in the…
The Translating Europe Workshop titled ’Digitalization and linguistic accessibility’ in Helsinki on 18 October, co-organized with Finnish Language Service Providers SKY, will look at the implications of the Web Accessibility Directive and linguistic accessibility in general through several stakeholder insights relevant to the language service industries. Common threads through all of them are digital solutions…
In its press release published on 13 March, the Finnish Association of Translators and Interpreters (SKTL) commented on the position of subcontractors in competitive tendering processes related to translation services. Finnish Language Service Providers (SKY) welcomes all discussion about practices in the industry and sees it as positive that all participants in the value chain…
Finnish Language Service Providers (SKY) kicked off 2020 with an after-work event on Tuesday 4 February. Around twenty people from our member companies gathered at Scandic Simonkenttä Hotel’s conference facilities, in downtown Helsinki, to hear what Renato Beninatto, a seasoned veteran and authority on the industry, had to say about the importance of sales for…
The European Commission will soon launch a broad call for tenders for translation services. This call for tenders is also for translation services from or into Finnish (FIN).
Further information about the call for tenders can be found here.
The Suomen Yrittäjät (Entrepreneurs of Finland) organisation will award the industry association of the year 2018 at the Vaikuttajafoorumi event held in Helsinki on 1–2 February 2019. Finnish Language Service Providers SKY has been nominated among four other finalists as a result of the re-branding, market research and the #KIELI2018 conference they held in 2018.…
The Association of Finnish Translation Companies SKTOL is now Finnish Language Service Providers (SKY). The association invites Language Service Providers to become members. SKTOL’s autumn meeting on 27 October approved the new rules and name of the association. The name change is part of a greater change from an association representing translation companies and the…
After the tendering of interpretation services in 2017 and the subsequent cancellation, Hansel is now preparing for a new call for tenders. An open call for tenders is planned for public service and court interpreting services. SKY and its member organisations are called to participate in a technical dialog to ensure the clarity of tender…