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The 25th CCIC is now open for enrolment!
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2009 session dates
Sunday 2nd August – Friday 14th August
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| The "CCIC community" now extends to dozens
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The Cambridge Conference Interpretation Course (CCIC) has
run annually since 1985. It is a unique, high-level, specialised
training course carefully tailored to the needs of experienced
practising conference interpreters. The Course was founded
by former NATO Chief Interpreter Michael Francis, and is now
run by Christopher Guichot de Fortis, a Senior Staff Interpreter
with the same organisation. The CCIC format is at once intensive
yet relaxed, and demanding yet friendly.
The teaching faculty comprises respected and highly experienced
interpreters from a variety of backgrounds, ranging from the
freelance market on both sides of the Atlantic to staff interpretation
for International Institutions. Most work bi-actively, and
are long-standing members of examining boards for, and teach
on a regular basis at, a range of internationally recognised
interpreting schools. All work in such venues as the ECJ,
EU, NATO, OECD and UN. The overall student-teacher ratio does
not exceed 3 to 1.
Our format is constantly fine-tuned in light of student
feedback, and we continue to function on a non-profit basis,
with Faculty staff offering their time and expertise free
of charge. In recent years the CCIC has enjoyed the confidence
of International Organisations such as the George C. Marshall
Center, NATO, the OPCW, the UN and the Islamic Development
Bank, all of which have sent
staff interpreters as students on the Course.
Cambridge and its University have always been the cradle of
the CCIC. The Course is housed in the 3-star Royal Cambridge
Hotel, a city landmark that provides a friendly, comfortable
and flexible environment within a few minutes’ walk
of the Fitzwilliam Museum and City Centre.
The CCIC combines a high level of comfort, equipment, and facilities with the lowest available prices and, as always, offers a choice of three packages with no hidden costs. Tariffs
for hotel rooms and meals are particularly competitive for
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