Dans le cadre de l'appel en cours du programme CIP TIC, nous avons reçu une proposition de partenariat de partenaire bulgare AHROMAT GAMA 4 OOD ( AG4) ORGANISATION PROFILE Ahromat Gama 4 OOD is a Bulgarian professional agency for language services. The agency is founded in December, 2008. It works with translators who translate mostly from foreign into native language, as well as vice versa, philologists and editors. AG4 provides language services in compliance with the Bulgarian standard EN15038:2006 and the Law for Protection of Private Data. AG 4 is in a process of obtaining a license from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in compliance with the new requirements from the department. The agency works in the area of translation with CAT technologies SDL Trados, Abbyy Fine Reader. For the short period of its establishment, AG4 has made translations in the fields of Law, Finance, European projects, Medicine and different types of documents. The agency is especially occupied with the quality and fastness of the translation, constantly observes the innovations in the area of language technologies and possesses the ambition to develop its expertise in order to satisfy the needs of SMEs, multilingual monitoring in different sectors informatics, education, law, etc. In 2010, we participated in an international consortium comprised of seven partner European companies in the 4th contest FP7 ICT policies for competitiveness and innovation on the topic: "Portal of Multilingual Information for Innovation" (PMI-Innovation). That kind of experience was useful for the agency in its search of innovative field of development, although it did not finished with the project implementation. The agency aspires to find its place and to develop in the European market of language services in the following directions: - Organization of its translational activity around the idea of creating services with a wide range by applying the latest information and communication technologies and the Internet - multilingual information monitoring, which is of strategic importance for SMEs; - Participation of the agency’s training centre in programs with social awareness, creating conditions for the non-exclusion of the older people from the normal rhythm of life through the preservation and development of traditional and new skills for that and other vulnerable groups of the population. The informational skills are part of these latest skills, necessary for almost every member of the today’s society. Role in the project We would be happy to participate in a program oriented towards the older part of the population, providing them with language and informational services, aiming at preservation or even revival of traditional skills. We are sure that we will have a lot to learn from our future partners, as well as to give by developing our own expertise. Key personnel Maroussia Aladjova is a cofounder of Ahromat Gama 4, specialist in French language and English as a second language. She has been teaching French language and translation for SP in the Department of Philology of the SouthWest University “Neophyte Rilski”, for 34 years. She is a co-founder and director of Alliance Francaise, from its establishment in 1992 till 2008. Maroussia Aladjova translates mainly in the areas of Law, Education, European policies and Bio-foods. Silviya Stamenova is a young professional translator from English and French into Bulgarian as well as vice versa. She works for AG4 from its establishment. She is a bachelor of Applied Linguistics and bachelor of Finance. At the moment she is doing her MA degree in Finance from London Metropolitan University. During her experience as a translator she has participated in projects in the areas of European and Commercial Law, as well in the fields of finance and banking. Her most recent project is connected with the transformation and reconstruction of the maternity ward in Slivnica Municipality into an elder care home, financed and supported by the European Fund of Regional Development. Her fields of translations are: Finance, Law, European projects, medicine. Contact Eli Kaneva ICT PSP National Contact Point - Bulgaria Chief Expert Information Technology Directorate Ministry of Transport, Information Technology and Communications 6 Gourko Str. Sofia 1000, Bulgaria Tel. + 359 2 9492315 e-mail: ekaneva@mtitc.government.bg Pour plus dd'information Contact Details: Marusya Aladzhova Tel +359 876 323250 Skype: maroussiaaladjova Email: info.ahromat@gmail.com