Join the conversation. Shape the future. Be a part of XXIII FIT World Congress in Geneva, Switzerland.
On September 4-6, 2025, colleagues from around the globe will convene for three days filled with cutting-edge papers, engaging workshops, panels, stimulating discussions, and unparalleled networking opportunities, based around the Congress theme Mastering the Machine: shaping an intelligent future.
The voice of professional translators, interpreters and terminologists around the world
FIT is the federation of professional associations of interpreters, translators and terminologists around the world, working in areas as diverse as literary, scientific and technical, public service, court and legal settings, conference interpreting, media and diplomatic fields and academia.
FIT supports members and the profession at an international level, building community, visibility and a sustainable future for the profession.
Indigenous Languages Going Extinct: Psychoneurolinguistic grounds - On behalf of FIT, the FIT Indigenous Languages Standing Committee is pleased to invite you to attend our webinar on April 22, 2025 at 4PM CET with Dr. Polina Dashinimaeva, Professor at Buryat State University, to learn about the important role of neurolinguistics in explaining and mitigating the loss of Indigenous languages. The webinar, "Indigenous Languages Going Extinct: Psychoneurolinguistic grounds", will be held online through Zoom. Please register for the event here. FIT Legal Translation Standing Committee: Round Table - December 07, 2024, 1:00pm Paris (UTC+1)
The FIT Legal Translation Standing Committee prepared draft guidelines on court translators and interpreters working conditions. The document is based on the survey of job satisfaction level conducted between court translators and interpreters in 2023. During the round table members of the LTSC will share results of the survey and explain the general concept and purpose of the guidelines. The draft will further be subject to possible amendments based on the feedback collected during the round table.
A new era of FIT
Despite the global challenges still facing us, 65 members were able to participate in the XXII FIT Statutory Congress in Varadero, Cuba on May 30th and 31st 2022, hosted by the Asociación Cubana de Traductores e Intérpretes (ACTI).
A new Council was elected, to lead FIT through to the next Congress in 2025. Meet the new FIT Council.
Barcelona Manifesto
On April 21, 2023, FIT joined the Association of Catalan Language Writers (AELC), the Council of European Associations of Literary Translators (CEATL) and hosts the Association of Professional Translators and Interpreters of Catalonia (APTIC) at the Gabriel García Márquez Library in Barcelona, in signing the Barcelona Manifesto on good contractual practices in translation for the publishing industry. Read the manifesto here.
Our global reach
