Announcement of the winners of the EMT 2026 challenge
Clockwise from top left: Chloë Strimelle, Noa Warren, Manjinder Thind, Émilie Leclercq
The winners of the EMT Challenge 2026 are:
- Chloë Strimelle, Catholic University of Louvain, thesis: Terminologie de la F1 : De la sécurité aux fondamentaux de la compétition
- Noa Warren, Leiden University, thesis: The Reception of Translated Medical Texts by Health Professionals in the Netherlands
- Émilie Leclercq, University of Liège, thesis: Effects of Translating a Multilingual Audiovisual Work: A Comparative Analysis of the French Versions of the Netflix Series 1899
- Manjinder Thind, University of Bologna, thesis: Exploring LLMs’ abilities to handle gender-neutral rephrasing and translation in German
They will be invited to attend DGT’s annual Translating Europe Forum in November where they will receive their award.
The final round of the contest took place on 7 May. It is organised by the Directorate General for Translation of the European Commission for students of the European Master’s in Translation network with the aim of shining a light on translation studies and the translation profession.
The video presentations given by an initial group of 29 students on a wide range of subjects were carefully assessed and ten finalists were selected to present their theses during the live session. After ten fascinating three-minute presentations, four winners were selected by the jury. Click here to watch the recording.
We would like to congratulate the winners and thank all the participants for their time, effort and excellent work.