Welcome to the EAFT site!
The European Association for Terminology is a non-profit professional organisation for the terminology sector in Europe. The EAFT intends to bring together all the individuals and institutions in Europe that are active in or have an interest in the discipline of terminology.
It is designed to further multilingualism through terminology, to provide a European platform for promoting and professionalising terminological activities and improving awareness of them, and to liaise and cooperate actively with other relevant organisations, associations and institutions at all levels.
Visit our mission page to know more about EAFT goals.
The board
The following Board was elected for the next two years at the last General Assembly. The new Board has constituted itself at its first meeting, in February 2013.
Jan Hoel, president (Language Council of Norway)
Ágóta Fóris, vice-president (University of Karoli Gaspar, Hungary)
Rosa Colomer, secretariat and treasury (TERMCAT, Catalonia, Spain)
Corina Lascu (Académie d'Études Économiques de Bucarest, Romania)
Henrik Nilsson (Terminologicentrum TNC, Sweden)
Cristophe Roche (Université de Savoie, France)
Maja Bratanic (Institute of Croatian Language and Linguistics, Croatia)
Communication channels
You can keep updated on EAFT activities by means of the news section or the newsletter. Both are fed by EAFT members' contributions. If you want your contribution to be published in the next issue, please contact us at term(at)eaft-aet.net.
Becoming a new member
Becoming an EAFT member makes it easier to exchange information on terminology and allows you to participate in terminological events, projects and activities. It is possible to join EAFT as an individual or as an institutional member. For consulting membership conditions and further information, please visit the registration page.
Latest news :
EAFT Newsletter
A new EAFT issue has been published. If you wish that your contribution should appear in the next issue, please send your reference to term@eaft-aet.net. Remember that Newsletter’s sections are fed by EAFT members’ contributions. Your contributions can be sent in English or in French (or in both), and also in your own language.
EAFT board meeting in Barcelona
On February 11th the EAFT Board will meet place in Barcelona. Among other topics, the agenda includes the formal composition of the new board, EAFT events, the annual membership campaign and the activity plan for the first half of 2013. In the February issue of the Newsletter a meeting summary will be reported to all EAFT members.
Terminology of Social Networks
TERMCAT has published the Terminologia bàsica de les xarxes socials, which includes about one hundred terms related to social networks, especially Facebook and Twitter, with the definition in Catalan and equivalents in Spanish and English. The content of this dictionary is open to be updated permanently, given the continuous creation of new social platforms and the evolution of the already existing ones.
