The European Commission has announced today the 27 winners, one for each EU country, from the 716 schools that took part in the EU school translation contest ‘Juvenes Translatores' for 17-year-olds.
This time, 3004 students tried their hand at translating a text between any two of the EU's 24 official languages. While English features prominently, the 155 language combinations chosen by students also included language pairs such as Bulgarian-Greek, Danish-Czech, Irish-Spanish and Croatian-Swedish. Official translators from the European Commission selected the winners, as well as the 186 students who received special mentions for their impressive work.
The award ceremony will take place on 27 March 2026. The 27 young translators, accompanied by their teachers and parents, will be shown how European Commission translators work daily. This visit will also serve as an EU meeting point for them to meet each other and get to know how the European Union works for them.
Funded by the Erasmus+ programme, the Juvenes Translatores contest has been organised by the Commission's Directorate-General for Translation every year since 2007 to promote translation and multilingualism. It promotes multilingualism and translation skills, with schools selected randomly based on each country's European Parliament seats (713 schools total in 2024-2025)
This contest has been a life-changing experience for many of its participants and winners. Some have decided to study translation at university, and some have joined the Commission's translation department as trainees, full-time translators or interpreters.
