Financial assistance

The European Parliament's interpreting service can provide financial assistance in the form of grants for actions related to conference interpreter training. The aim of the grants programme is to help educate new generations of qualified conference interpreters in order to address existing shortages for some languages, to prepare for the future accession of candidate countries, and to maintain a high standard of interpreting in the European Union's official languages and the languages of its main political partners.

• Higher-education institutions, universities, university institutes, consortia and associations of universities or institutes which offer or coordinate master or post-graduate courses specialising in conference interpreting (master or post-graduate or bachelor courses in Ukraine).
• Associations, consortia and bodies whose main mission is to support cooperation and disseminate best practice in the field of worldwide conference interpreter training.

• Actions related to the organisation of high-quality master or post-graduate courses in conference interpreting.
• Projects aimed at supporting interpreter training (e.g. virtual learning / e-learning tools, dissemination of best practices, quality assurance, training for trainers, student mobility, teacher mobility, etc.).
• Actions related to the organisation of master or post-graduate or bachelor courses in conference interpreting (relevance to the priority needs for the Ukrainian language at the European Parliament and the EU institutions and bodies for which it provides interpretations services)

A call for proposals is launched once a year, usually in the first quarter of the year, detailing the conditions, grants selection criteria and timetable for the selection and award procedure.

All necessary information on how to apply is available on the European Parliament Contracts and Grants webpage.

Applications must be submitted only electronically via the Funding & Tenders Portal Electronic Submission System (accessible also via Contracts and Grants webpage). Paper submissions are NOT accepted.

You can also consult the list of projects funded following the previous call for proposals

The Directorate-General for Logistics and Interpretation for Conferences of the European Parliament has adopted the Work Programme on financial support for training in conference interpreting. The work programme covers the academic year 2026-2027.

The call for proposals for the organisation of postgraduate courses and projects aimed at supporting interpreter training is published on the European Parliament Contracts and Grants webpage.