Dr. Paula Quijano, academic director of the degree program in Translation, Interpreting, and Applied Languages (TEL) at the Universidad Europea del Atlántico (European University of the Atlantic, UNEATLANTICO), participated virtually in the 8th International Congress on Science and Translation: Interdisciplinary Bridges and the Dissemination of Scientific Knowledge, which took place at the University of Innsbruck in Austria.
It was organized by the research group HUM 947-Text, Science and Translation at the University of Córdoba, to which Quijano belongs and with which she carries out various research projects. This conference focused mainly on the didactic aspect of translation.
Dr. Quijano presented her paper “The PETRA-E Reference Framework in Literary Translation: a competency-based model from the perspective of translation teaching,” which focused on her specialty of literary translation. In it, she explained how to integrate the European Union’s PETRA-E reference framework for accuracy and quality standards in literary translation into the teaching of humanistic and literary translation, illustrating her points with practical examples used in the UNEATLANTICO classroom.