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sites in Berlin, Munich, Zürich, Saarbrücken and Fosanoin Switzerland.’The professor also believes that the project has done muchto decrease the fragmentation in the translation discipline bycreating a new multidimensional translation concept and theMuTra translation methodology. It has also established a groupof young scholars who all attended several Marie Curie initiativesand are supported and promoted by the Gerzymisch Stiftung,Saarland University and the Advanced Translation ResearchCenter (ATRC). Incidentally, ATRC has formed a separate entityas an association as a result of MuTra. Its research focuses onthe general, language-independent concepts and methodologyof translation and interpreting.Love what you doIt may seem a little strange to those who ‘work to live’, butloving what you do is, according to Professor Gerzymisch-Arbogast, crucial for Marie Curie success. She also believesthat completing the application form stringently is vital to actuallyobtaining a fellowship place. Once accepted, applicants should,she feels, strive to build up their own networks of people withthe same mindset, objectives and complementary expertisewithin Europe. And this is exactly what the professor has done.‘The MuTra partners include universities in Copenhagen, Vienna,Budapest and Berlin,’ she says.Someone once said ‘all you need is love’. Next time you watcha subtitled fi lm, listen to interpretation at a conference or watchthe news in a foreign language, take a moment to think aboutthe love that the professor and her Fellows have put into settingthe standards of translation across Europe and beyondProject acronymMuTraFull project titleMultidimensional translationType of grantConferenceBudgetEUR 285 000Duration of project01-12-2005 - 01-12-2008Scientific disciplineSociologyLead partnerProf. Heidrun Gerzymisch-ArbogastAdvanced Translation Research Center / Translationconcepts.orgUniversität des SaarlandesCampus A2 2DE-66123 SaarbrückenTel. +49 681 302 4248E-mail: h.gerzymisch@mx.uni-saarland.deOther partnersAarhus School of Business, Denmark - Eötvös Lorand University,Hungary - Eurice GmbH, Germany - Fachhochschule Flensburg, Germany -Saarland University, Germany - Titelbild Subtitling and Translation GmbH,Germany - University of Copenhagen, Denmark - Ventspils Augstskola, Latvia -Vienna University, Austria351