One of the main goals of this strategic partnership is to develop, evaluate and disseminate expertise and materials that will lead to enhancing teaching and learning about machine translation among language learners and teachers, trainee translators and professional translators, among others. We recognize a number of challenges that need to be overcome, however, before we have a truly fit-for-purpose curriculum in contemporary machine translation; one that fully addresses current technological, ethical and societal contexts, and that can scale up to become accessible across Europe and beyond.
The NMT course proposals consists of a public report on the planning/didactic work done in order to prepare the training course on machine translation, i.e., the course design, the methodological framework, the skills card and competence card related to training as well as certifications and certification system for students and teachers.
The course design will be taking Bologna process requirements so that the course may be transferred and implemented in any member country in the European Higher Education Area. The course will be designed so that it can be implemented in different higher education (HE)contexts, with a total theoretical workload around 5 ECTS, to be adjusted to different institutional settings by each partner or associate partners depending on the selected contents and administrative requirements. The course will be open and ready to be included in:
- formal HE degrees in translation studies as a full-course, preferably at the master's level.
- formal HE degrees in language and/or translation studies as separate units where instructors can choose relevant materials by including them in their existing language or translation courses.
- non-formal life-long learning course equivalent offered by HE institutions to students and HE staff.
- non-formal life-long learning course offered by professional associations to affiliates.
- non-formal life-long learning course offered by translation companies to staff.
The contents of the course have the form of a handbook and can be found in the section Neuronal MT handbook for multilingual citizens.
In addition, MultiTraiNMT also includes the resources needed to implement the course, such as an activity database and a NMT platform (MutNMT), to put them into practice.