News
On our news pages we report on various topics, including language and translation, and show you important steps in the history of our translation office.
May 2025: World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development
The World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development is celebrated every year on 21 May.
UNESCO defines cultural diversity as the various forms of expression of the cultures of groups and societies that are passed on within and between societies.
This day gives us the opportunity to deepen our understanding of the values of cultural diversity and to advance the goals of the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions adopted on 20 October 2005, such as the right of every state to its own cultural policy, the integration of culture in sustainable development, international co-operation (co-operation, co-productions and preferential treatment for developing countries) as well as unrestricted cultural self-determination and freedom of choice on the basis of human rights.
It highlights not only the richness of the world’s cultures, but also the essential role of intercultural dialogue for achieving peace and sustainable development.
Happy Easter!
We wish all our customers and colleagues wonderful Easter holidays, with time for family and traditions as well as a busy Easter bunny.
Hyvää pääsiääistä, Felices Pascuas and Frohe Ostern!
Your Schweitzer Sprachendienst Team
Joyeux Noël, Feliz Navidad, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
At the end of the year 2024, we would like to sincerely thank you for the pleasant cooperation, the always interesting topics and the trust you have placed in us and our work.
We wish you and your loved ones a Merry Christmas, a Happy New Year, success and above all good health for 2025.
Your Schweitzer Sprachendienst Team
Schweitzer Sprachendienst:
25 years of language services
We are celebrating our anniversary! With our short video message, we, Andreas Schweitzer and the whole SSD-Team, want to thank our customers and colleagues worldwide for their support and the trust they have placed in us.
(In German only, please use full screen!)
October 2024: Umbrella agreement with DIN renewed
Since 2016, we have been translating international and European standards for Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN e.V.). We are pleased that the umbrella agreement has been extended until December 2026. We would like to thank DIN for the trust they have placed in our work and the always interesting topics and subject areas as well as our motivated and reliable colleagues for their accurate, high-quality work on these complex translation and revision processes.
Selection (subject areas):
Acoustics, Aerospace
Building and Civil Engineering
Coatings, Colour
Entertainment Technology, Ergonomics
Fire Fighting, Food and Agricultural products
Health Technologies, Heating and Ventilation Technology
Information Technology
Laboratory Devices and Installations
Material Testing, Medicine
Organizational Processes, Optics and Precision Mechanics
Paper, board and pulps, Principles of Environmental Protection
Quality Management
Shipbuilding and Marine Technology, Sports Equipment
Tank Installations, Terminology, Textiles, Timber and Furniture
Water Practice
September 2024:
International Translation Day –
Feast day of St. Jerome
On 30 September 2024, the International Translation Day (ITD) reminds us of the important role professional translators play in our globalised world.
In 1953, the Federation of Translators (FIT) – the umbrella organisation of our profession – set up the International Translation Day. It is now celebrated annually on the feast of St. Jerome, the important linguist and Bible translator, who is known as the patron saint of all translators, interpreters and terminologists. In May 2017, the United Nations officially recognised this day, thus emphasising the ever increasing importance of this profession.
Many people think that everyone who can speak more than one language is automatically a translator. But there’s more to a good translation than just speaking two languages: Translators are professional language mediators with not only broad linguistic, but also comprehensive cultural and technical knowledge.
The BDÜ (Bundesverband der Dolmetscher und Übersetzer, en: Federal Association of Interpreters and Translators), is once again providing further information on this topic at www.hieronymustag.de: The campaigns and events planned by the federal association and its member organisations for the International Translation Day will be published here on an ongoing basis.