We at Podium had the pleasure of travelling to Crete, where the Municipality of Platanias and the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Systems Lab of the Technical University of Crete’s School of Chemical and Environmental Engineering welcomed the partners of the European project “SUMP-PLUS: Sustainable Urban Mobility Planning: Pathways and Links to Urban Systems”. As part…
What do the television studios in Liosia, the OSE (Hellenic Railways Organisation) Railway Museum in Piraeus, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation and luxury hotels in Chalkidiki and the southern suburbs of Attica all have in common? What “invisible” thread binds Ms Margrethe Vestager, Executive Vice President of the European Commission, Mr Margaritis Schinas, Vice-President of the…
It was our pleasure to provide interpreting services at the 8th Travel Trade Athens event. The City of Athens’ landmark event, implemented by the Athens Development and Destination Management Agency (EATA) in collaboration with the European Tour Operators Association (ETOA), hosted more than 160 representatives of major companies from the Greek and foreign tourism industry,…
At Athens City Hall, we provided interpreting services from Greek into English and the reverse as part of the event on “The Restoration of the Holy Canopy of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem”. In the photo: Antonia Moropoulou, professor at the National Technical University of Athens and the project’s scientific officer, with Kouneli Maria, Managing…
We had the honour to provide interpreting services during the speech of Mark Blyth, professor of International Economics at Brown University and author of the books “Austerity: The History of a Dangerous Idea (Oxford 2013)” & “The Future of the Euro”, which was delivered in the framework of the event “20 Years of Euro: An…
At Podium we experienced firsthand the return of the Francophone Film Festival, screening at cinemas both in Athens and in Thessaloniki. During the Festival, held for the first time after a two-year hiatus, we provided interpreting services, conveying, through very interesting debates, the artistic view of exceptionally talented auteurs who have made french-speaking movies. C’était…
The mission and purpose of live events (conferences, meetings, seminars, etc.) has always been to allow the participants to exchange views and opinions; perhaps the most important element, however, was that participants had the opportunity to experience these unique events in person. Interpersonal contact is, after all, irreplaceable by definition. Given the global pandemic that…
Both translation companies and individual translators have often had to deal with potential clients pushing for a quick delivery, using various arguments, ranging from “how long can it take, it’s only three pages”, to “I would do it myself in a couple of hours, but I’m swamped with other stuff…” So how long does a…
We are happy to be in France, at the SOCOTEC headquarters, the global leader in providing consulting, training and certification services for the construction, infrastructure and industrial sectors. Podium provided interpreting services in the framework of the SOCOTEC training workshop for Greek personnel intended to work in French nuclear power plants. This highly demanding workshop…
This idiom is used to say that because one good thing has happened, it is not, therefore, certain that a situation is going to improve. The initial saying, taken from one of Aesop’s fables, is “One swallow does not make a spring” (μία χελιδὼν ἔαρ οὐ ποιεῖ), with the swallow sometimes replaced by a cuckoo.…