The European Community, represented by the Commission of the European Communities, has published 23 calls for tenders (one call for tenders for each of the official languages of the EU) in the following Official Journal of the European Union:

OJ S 180 of 19 September 2007 for the translation of documents relating to the policies and administration of the European Union.

The deadline for submitting tenders is the 5th of November 2007.

Please consult the following link for full details of the services required and further information on terms and conditions. All the tender documentation can be downloaded from this site.
I would be very grateful if you could spread this information amongst the interested members of your organisation.

Yours sincerely,
Klaus Ahrend
Head of Unit
European Commission
Directorate-General for Translation
External Translation

The MT Summits have been established as the meeting place for people and companies with a professional interest in machine translation and other tools for translation, be it researchers, developers, providers, users, or watchers who want to be abreast of the newest developments.
MT Summit XI contributes strongly to this tradition through its rich programme for the week 10-14 September in Copenhagen, Denmark.

The programme features 6 tutorials, 4 workshops, and 74 papers in the main conference, covering both practical and scientific aspects of machine translation and related fields. See the programme and register at the summit website http://mtsummitcph.ku.dk/

We are looking forward to seeing you in Copenhagen!

Yours sincerely
Bente Maegaard
EAMT President

Customers Value .NET Support
PASS Engineering notes marked revenue upswing and announces PASSOLO 2007

(Bonn, May 11th, 2007) Since 2004, PASS Engineering has increasingly concentrated on .NET support in its localization tool, PASSOLO, and this has proven to be crucial to growing success. Florian Sachse, CTO and Managing Director of the Bonn software company, has given numerous .NET workshops during the last two years at diverse locations including Barcelona, Limerick, Montréal, Wiesbaden, Bonn, and Dublin. He will once again present the ever-popular workshop at the Localization World Conference in Berlin this coming June. Read More...

Dear Customers,

We would like to invite you to take part in our 4th PASSOLO workshop for experienced PASSOLO users to be held on the day prior to the Localization World Conference in Berlin.
Since there will only be room for max. 15 participants in the workshop, you should inform us as soon as possible about your interest - please contact me directly by e-mail. A registration form will be sent later. Read More...

Learning Localization with PASSOLO
PASS Engineering supports qualification projects in France and the USA Read More...

Eight trainers completed the CPT qualification program this year at the headquarter of PASS Engineering in Bonn.
Among the highlights of this year’s program were the new features of PASSOLO version 6.0 and a look at issues involved in the localization of special formats such as .NET, XML and databases. Read More...

STAR Support information about the products: Transit XV and TermStar XV

We would like to announce that Service Pack 19 is now available for download on our ftp-server and on our Website.
Detailed information on new features and improvements implemented with this Service Pack can be found in the readmetr.txt and readmets.txt
Apart from bug fixes Service Pack 19 contains the following new features (for more details please refer to the Transit readme):
Read More...

100 Days of PASSOLO 6.0
The current version of the award-winning localization tool has already established itself as a standard.

(Bonn, 20 September 2006) PASS Engineering is presently celebrating the first 100 successful days of PASSOLO 6.0. The consistently positive echo from customers and the clear increase in sales for the German software company show that PASSOLO’s new features are exactly what the market really needs. “Compared with the first half of the year, our turnover has increased by another 40%,” says Claudia Fricke, Business Development Manager of PASS Engineering
One key factor for the success of the new version is the extended support for Microsoft.NET, now including Framework 2.0; customer demand for this feature has been enormous. Other features such as the HTML editor and networking functionality have also attracted a lot of customers. “What all the innovations of this version have in common,” says Fricke, “is that they help users save time, and money. And the users have recognized and acknowledged these benefits.”
.NET localization is going to be the focus of a workshop by the managing director of PASS Engineering and TILP professional Florian Sachse to be held prior to the coming Localization World Conference in Montreal (16-18 October 2006): Sachse’s workshop “How to master .NET Localization” will provide a practical introduction on how to handle .NET in the localization process.

About PASS Engineering
PASS Engineering GmbH, located in Bonn, Germany, has been in business since 1990. Their focus was initially in the development of medical-technical software, but later shifted to the field of software localization.
In the context of globalization, software localization plays a key role: localization tools like PASSOLO present the translatable data so that it can be edited in a simple but secure way. By leveraging already translated strings it is possible to accelerate the time-to-market cycle. The Add-in concept allows data exchange between PASSOLO and other tools relevant to the localization process.

For further information on PASSOLO, please refer to www.passolo.com or contact PASS Engineering GmbH, Remigiusstraße 1, 53111 Bonn (Germany), phone: +49 228 697242, fax: +49 228 697104, e-mail: info@passolo.com.