What is APIC?
The Portuguese Association of Conference Interpreters (APIC) was set up in 1987 by a group of professionals to ensure quality standards in conference interpreting in Portugal.
To this end, APIC aims to ensure working conditions compatible with the demands of the profession, defend the rights of its members, promote cooperation between conference interpreting professionals and between them and related institutions, and support the training of conference interpreters.
Who are APIC members
APIC members are highly qualified conference interpreters, whose admission depends on a positive assessment of their skills and approval by their peers, and who carry out their professional activity in compliance with a Code of Ethics that constitutes the association’s main reference framework. APIC is proud to see the merit of its members recognised by numerous prestigious national and international institutions.
APIC is represented on the Advisory Board for Translation and Interpreting of SNATTI – National Trade Union for Tourism Activity, Translators and Interpreters; has partnerships with the Portuguese Refugee Council and the Observatory of the Portuguese Language, and has participated in various ad-hoc working groups of governmental and non-governmental institutions.
How to join APIC
APIC is open to all conference interpreters with university degrees and professional experience to ensure an adequate level of performance, upon approval by their peers of their linguistic, expressive and interpretive skills, as well as their physical and psychological aptitude, team working ability and professional ethics.
How to join APIC
APIC is open to all conference interpreters with university degrees and professional experience to ensure an adequate level of performance, upon approval by their peers of their linguistic, expressive and interpretive skills, as well as their physical and psychological aptitude, team working ability and professional ethics.
Candidates for membership of APIC must be proposed by three members and the General Assembly shall make the final decision on membership applications.
Following approval of the application, the APIC interpreter is assigned a language combination according to the following classification:
A – Mother tongue(s) > interpreter’s native language(s)
B – Other active languages > those into which the interpreter may interpret
C – Passive languages > those from (but not into) which the interpreter interprets
Governing Bodies 2020-2022
Directorate
Carlos Fiuza (Chair)
Teresa Allen (Secretary)
Gisela Gambini (Treasurer)
Board of the General Assembly
Ana Martins (Chair)
João Paulo Galvão (Secretary)
Isabel Branco (Secretary)
Fiscal Council
Michael Skinner (Chair)
Paula Sapinho (Member)
Barbara Pollastri (Member)