Diploma translation and colloquium interpreting
from Wavre to Nivelles and Jodoigne
For the university and its science park, the colleges, the international schools and the laboratories of the province. University, colleges, international schools and laboratories: equivalences, publications, funding applications.
1 h
Reply to a request
2
Interpreters per booth per language
70+
Working languages
24 h
Express on a diploma
Documents in the education & research field
Louvain-la-Neuve draws researchers and students from all over the world, and the international schools of Waterloo and La Hulpe teach the children of families who came for Brussels. Hence two standing needs: having a qualification recognised in one direction or the other, and publishing work in a language that is not the author's own.
Diplomas and transcripts
Qualifications, diploma supplements, transcripts of records and course outlines to produce for an enrolment or a recruitment.
Equivalence applications
Documents gathered for a recognition request to the competent department of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation.
Scientific publications
Articles, conference abstracts, doctoral theses and research reports, reviewed by a linguist from the discipline.
Applications and funding
Scholarship files, letters of recommendation, responses to a call for projects and research agreements.
Agreements and partnerships
Joint doctorate contracts, texts governing a student mobility, agreements binding two institutions and papers for a placement abroad.
Institutional communication
Brochures, information pages, examination regulations and letters addressed to international students.
The education & research field in Walloon Brabant
Louvain-la-Neuve attracts students and researchers trained abroad every year, and their files arrive compiled in another language. An equivalence application to the Wallonia-Brussels Federation requires the diploma and the transcript in sworn form; we translate them and have the signature legalised at the FPS Justice when the department insists.
In research, conventions shift from one discipline and one funder to the next. Articles, abstracts, posters and funding applications follow the publisher's or the programme's exact instructions, then pass to a native reviser from the field before submission. English dominates publications, but Dutch and French come back in consortium agreements, valorisation contracts and reports to funding bodies.
In schools, the interpreter is what makes a meeting with non-French-speaking parents actually happen. Their role has to stay clear to everyone round the table, starting with the pupil, who should not be translating for their parents. The international schools of Waterloo and La Hulpe have their own expectations around enrolment files, and we know them.
- Diplomas and equivalence applications
- Admission file and covering letter
- Articles, conference abstracts and scientific posters
- Funding applications and interim reports
When a written translation stops being enough
A conference, a thesis defence or a parents' evening will not wait: the interpreter follows the thought live, they do not reconstruct it afterwards.
Conferences and symposia
Simultaneous interpreting from a booth, equipment and technician on site, for a room with no shared language.
Defences and panels
Thesis defence, international panel, oral examination or admission interview.
Meetings with families
A meeting between a school and parents who speak no French, a start-of-year session or a class council.
Hosting delegations
A visit from a foreign partner, the signing of a cooperation agreement or a welcome day for visiting researchers.
An equivalence application often falls down on formalities: a standard translation where the department expects a sworn one, an incomplete transcript, a missing stamp. Check the exact list of documents before having anything translated, because the processing clock does not restart out of goodwill.
What happens between your upload and the handover
Your education & research file stays with one and the same project manager, from the first document received to the final handover.
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Send the document over
Any readable phone snap will do, however badly framed. Booking an interpreter instead? Send the date, the address and the pair of languages involved.
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After 1 h you know price and deadline
You learn the figure, the delivery date and which route applies: sworn where an authority insists, standard everywhere else. Nothing to pay, nothing to sign.
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The file goes to a specialist
Your text is handed to a linguist who uses education & research terminology daily, then passes under a second pair of eyes.
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Handover or on-site assignment
The digital version reaches you by email. If a counter wants the stamped original, it travels by registered post. For a spoken assignment, the interpreter is there at the agreed hour.
A degree awaiting recognition, a symposium to organise?
Sworn translation of the qualifications, booths and technician for the room, a priced reply within the hour.
What really counts on a education & research file
Reviewed by someone from the discipline
An article on molecular biology is not reviewed the way a law dissertation is. The native reviewer we assign knows the conventions of your field and those of the target journal.
The calendar starts at the deadline
You give us the submission date or the opening of the conference, we place the milestones working backwards, and we flag it the moment a stage slips.
A linguist from your own trade
We do not send a specialised text to a generalist. Urgency changes nothing about that rule, it only makes it harder to honour.
Confidentiality put in writing
Nobody touches your file without a signed confidentiality undertaking. Storage sits on servers inside the European Union, and one written request from you is enough to erase everything.
The quoted amount is the invoiced amount
No surcharge surfaces along the way. Translation, revision and handover all sit inside the figure you approved at the start.
Travel included within our area
Our interpreters drive to Wavre, Nivelles, Waterloo, Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve, Braine-l'Alleud, Rixensart or Jodoigne with no mileage charge.
Frequently asked questions
Does a foreign diploma have to be sworn for an equivalence?
In almost every case, yes: the equivalence department expects a translation carrying the stamp and signature of a sworn translator. We keep the layout of the original document, seals and handwritten notes included, because that is what the officer compares.
Do you apply for the apostille?
No, that step remains yours with the authority of the country that issued the document. We do handle legalisation of the sworn translator's signature at the FPS Justice where it is required, and we tell you in which order to take the steps.
How is conference interpreting prepared?
We ask for the programme, the abstracts and, where possible, the slide decks a few days ahead. Two interpreters per booth per language take turns every twenty to thirty minutes: beyond that, concentration drops and quality follows it down.
Do you translate an article before submission?
Yes, separating two needs. Full translation, when the text was written in another language. Revision, when the author wrote in English themselves and is looking for a native reviewer able to make the text publishable without shifting the argument.
Get your free quote within the hour
Send us your document or your date: firm price, precise deadline, no obligation. You then decide, with everything in front of you.