Introducing our new Head of Sector for Succession Planning: Alicja Okoniewska
date: 07/05/2024
Dear members of our interpreting community,
We are back with an update on our activities and changes in the Succession Planning and Training of Future Interpreters Sector, part of the Talent Development Unit.
After the retirement of Fernando Leitão (thank you, Fernando, for all those years!) I am delighted to announce that we have welcomed Alicja Okoniewska as our new Head of Sector. I am confident that she’ll be able to lead the fantastic team in the Sector towards new important goals, so that SCIC can count on a new generation of conference interpreters with the skills needed to work for the EU Institutions.
To this end, we work together with you, our partner universities, to support the training of professionals able to interpret in the diverse meetings we service.
I wish you all a successful end of the academic year
Manuela Brovarone
Acting Head of Unit SCIC.B.1 Talent Development
Introducing Alicja Okoniewska
Alicja is an EU-accredited conference interpreter, interpreter trainer and trainer of trainers. She holds a doctorate in discourse analysis from Complutense University of Madrid. She trained, taught and conducted research at Polish, Spanish and French universities and was a visiting scholar in many others. She is a former Director of Conference Interpreting at ISIT Paris. She worked alongside multiple partner universities and was an active participant in the European Masters in Conference Interpreting consortium, CIUTI and other fora. Her interests include interpreting pedagogy, computer-assisted conference interpreting and socio-cognitive aspects of interpretation.
Alicja is looking forward to putting her practice-based experience and research-based expertise to good use along with her knowledge of technological advancements in interpretation. She is eager to harness new technological developments to contribute to SCIC’s succession planning and the future of the profession.
