Romanian Andreea Florina Săndiță from a Slatina is one of the 28 winners of the EU young translator contest Juvenes Translatores. She was one of the over 3 000 teenage pupils from 750 schools who sat the contest in November 2013 and whose papers were marked by the Commission's in-house translators.

Sandita will attend the award ceremony in Brussels on April 8 this year, where she will receive a trophy from Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth.

The Romanian studies at the National College Radu Greceanu in Slatina, and she translated to and from English - Romanian.

The Commission’s translators have been running the contest since 2007. The pupils who sat the test last November could choose from any of the hundreds of combinations possible from the EU’s 24 official languages. In total, they used 157 combinations this time, the highest to date.

Its aim is to promote language learning in schools and give young people a taste of what it is like to be a translator. It is open to 17-year old secondary school pupils (for those born in 1996 in the case of the 2013-2014 contest) and takes place at the same time in all selected schools across the European Union. The contest has encouraged some entrants to take up language studies and to become translators.

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