EU Policies and Their Implementation into the Interpreting-Translation Study Programmes at the Faculty of Humanities Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica (Slovakia)

In our paper we present a contemporary overview of EU policies and present the methods of their implementation as applied to teaching translation and interpreting. Given the vast range of issues they address, EU policies are an integral part of Slovak higher-education study programmes with various specializations. They are devoted considerable space in university interpreting- translation study programmes, which are designed to form broadly educated minds able to play the role of intercultural and interlingual intermediary between members of different language communities. One example of European policies in practice are the so-called European Years. Thus in the second part of the paper we present a historical overview of them and summarize their objectives. With regard to the educational objectives set out in Slovakia's translation and interpreting study programmes, we will focus on the crucial terminology related to the European Years as well as to EU policies.