Internship Study Programme
Internship plan in progress at AP ACADEMY

Duration : 6 months  | 960 hours

Objectives

1.Try out tools and research and analysis methods, developing your own critical eye and applying theory in practice.

2.Improve your multilingual communication skills, widening your understanding of your working languages.

3.Aquire and share knowledge in the field of Translation.

4.Develop translation skills into your mother tongue and your foreign language(s) in specific fields (health sciences, economics, the law, etc.).

5.Improve your soft skills and skills which will help you to integrate into the working world.  

6.Improve your ability to adapt, think critically, solve problems, make decisions and immerse yourself in language and culture.

7.Advanced use of new technologies used in Translation.

Working languages

Portuguese - Suitable for English-speaking trainees

Work mode

In-house or remotely

Teaching methods and learning activities

Our approach is notably practical, including a range of exercises and work carried out by our trainees, whether individually or as a team, led by their mentor.

 

Module	Comments	Working hours
Quality	Quality Control Department
Introduction to the ISO Standard 17100:2015 Quality Control System - SGQ ISO 17100 Excellence Programme: Total Satisfaction System (SST)	Mentor: Eugénio Rodrigues	8 hours
Kaizen	Quality Control Department
Continued Improvement Method | Introduction InteInterns will demonstrate their practical application throughout their placement through completing a Monthly Report	Mentor: Eugénio Rodrigues	4 hours 24 hours
Internal Communication and Intranet	Communication & Marketing Department
Best Practice Workplace: Introduction and deployment	Mentor: Eugénio Rodrigues Mentor: Anabela Delgado	4 hours
Translation	Mentoring Department
Translation | Practical exercises Revision | Practical exercises Proofreading | Practical exercises Transcription | Practical exercises Transcreation | Practical exercises Subtitling | Practical exercises	Mentor-Coordinator: Anabela Delgado	400 hours 200 hours 100 hours 80 hours
Post-editing
Machine Translation Light Post-editing Full Post-editing	Mentor: Ivone Oliveira	20 hours
Project Management	CATTI
Project management systems | TMS Wordbee Plunet Memsource Smartcat Theory & Practice	Mentor: Ivone Oliveira Mentor: Cátia Rodrigues, Project manager	8 hours + 20 hours
Layout | Desktop Publishing (DTP)	PACQ
Optical character recognition software | OCR | Abbyy Finereader Adobe creative cloud Indesign Adobe creative cloud PDF Acrobat Reader Microsoft office 365 (excel, powerpoint, MS word) Supervised practice	Mentor: Vera Lisboa, DTP Assistant Mentor: Ricardo Mathiotte, DTP Assistant	8 hours + 25 hours
Translation Memory Management	CATTI
Text alignment Terminology bases creation Translation memory creation Practical Application	Mentor: Ivone Oliveira Mentora: Cátia Rodrigues, Project Manager	4 hours + 20 hours
Localisation
Content management system CMS Manual localisation Automatic localisation Continual localisation	Mentor: Anabela Delgado Mentor: Ana Duarte	20 hours
Certified Translations
Document certification Document authentification	Mentor: Eugénio Rodrigues	5 hours
Translation assistance software CAT TOOLS
Wordbee Translator SDL Trados Studio MemoQ Memsource	Mentor-Coordinator: Anabela Delgado Mentor: Ivone Oliveira   Mentor: Ana Duarte	10 hours
	TOTAL	960 hours

Optional activities

• Attending conference interpretations
• Independent learning (webinars provided by the following international associations:  GALA - Globalization and LocalizationAssociation and ATC - Association of Translation Companies - UK 

Upon successfully completing your internship, you will, as a trainee at AP Academy, be able to: 

• Evaluate the role of technology in the translation industry;

• Identify the use of different professional translation tools;

• Decide which tools are more suitable for carrying out a project;

• Create translation memories;

• Put tools and methods for translation quality assurance to use;

• Get to know the process of organising and managing translation projects;

• Identify the main characteristics of tools designed for other types of language services (terminology management tools, project management, localisation, quality control, machine translation, subtitling, voice recognition, spellcheck, etc.);

• Understand the strong social dynamic of translation as a profession, which requires skills such as teamwork, communication and time management, following instructions, and managing emotions and ressources (both human and material).