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Module 9: Mock conferences and other practice speeches

Ad-hoc videos of mock conferences filmed by interpreters to facilitate practice

Disclaimer: The views expressed in the speeches are not necessarily those of the speakers themselves and may not in any circumstances be regarded as stating an official position of the European Commission.

Mock conferences

29/05/2020 on Life after Covid-19 – the new normal (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT)

18/05/2020 on Travel and Tourism (PL, EN, FR)

14/05/2020 on Art and culture during confinement (PT, EN, FR)

05/05/2020 on Technology and Social media (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, NL)

28/04/2020 COVID-19: Travel and Tourism (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT)

21/04/2020 COVID-19: The socio-economic consequences (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT)

03/04/2020 on COVID-19 (EN, FR, DE, ES)

 

Mock conferences with interpretation

Once you open the video, by clicking on the arrow at the bottom of the screen you can choose a language channel to listen to the interpretation.

27/03/2026 on the priorities of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU (EN, FR, DE, EL, IT, ES)

31/10/2025 on the priorities of the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU (EN, FR, DE, IT, ES)

28/03/2025 on the priorities of the Polish Presidency of the Council of the EU (EN, FR, DE, IT, ES, PL)

26/11/2024 on the new European Commission (EN, FR, DE, NL, IT, ES)

Programme and keywords - Mock conference on the new European Commission - 26 November
25 November 2024

06/05/2024 on the priorities of the Belgian Presidency of the Council of the EU (EN, FR, DE, NL, IT, ES)

23/03/2023 on the priorities of the Swedish Presidency of the Council of the EU (EN, FR, DE, IT, ES, SV)

Programme and keywords: Mock conference on the priorities of the Swedish Presidency - DG SCIC - 23 March 2023
16 March 2023

 

30/05/2022 on Fake news and disinformation - The role of social media and the possible solutions (EN, FR, DE, IT, ES)

24/09/2021 on Multilingualism - The European Day of Languages (EN, FR, DE, IT, ES, PT, SL)

01/06/2021 on Conference on the Future of Europe (EN, FR, DE, IT, ES, NL, PT, PL)

Programme: Mock conference - Conference on the Future of Europe - DG SCIC 1 June 2021
26 July 2022

30/04/2021 on Portuguese Presidency (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PT, NL, PL)

11/02/2021 on COVID: vaccinations, civil liberties and individual responsibility (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, NL, PT, PL)

15/10/2020 on The Environment in COVID times (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PT, NL)

25/09/2020 on Multilingualism - The European Day of Languages (EN, FR, DE, ES, IT, PT, NL)

 

Speech Repository

The Speech Repository is an e-learning tool developed by the Directorate-General for Interpretation which provides audio-visual training material for conference interpreting students and trainers.

Over 4,000 training speeches made by interpreters from the European institutions and excerpts of conferences or other public meetings. These are classified by language, level of difficulty, type of interpreting mode and subject.

All 24 official EU languages are covered, as well as the languages of some of the candidate countries, Russian, Arabic and Chinese.