ISO certificationcorporate social responsibilitycommercial termsIn addition to local Latvian choir and dance groups, 26 foreign guest groups will participate in the Song and Dance Celebration 2008. In order to make sure information on these collectives can be available to and understood by everyone, Skrivanek Latvia is offering complementary translations from foreign languages to Latvian of the group descriptions.
Information on the guest choir and dance groups will be available at the website www.dziesmusvetki2008.lv, and distributed in print as foreign guest collective concert programmes, which will be provided by the Song and Dance Celebration Office.
The XXIV Latvian Nationwide Song and Dance Celebration will take place from 5 to 12 July. The Foreign Guest Group Concert will delight audiences at 5 pm, 9th July, on Dome Square.
This year, streetball enthusiasts from all over Latvia will once again be united by energy, joy, and a love for the game. This energetic, sunny and surprise-filled event, whose popularity is proven by the ever-growing numbers of participants and spectators, is a family celebration that will last the entire summer.
This year, Skrivanek Latvia has decided to sponsor one of the most high-spirited streetball teams Skrivanek tīkliņš, and its team members Artūrs Petrovs, Mareks Morozovs and Kaspars Gulbis.
More information on the results and the team’s achievements can be found here.
May the opponents be worthy and your spirits, energy and accomplishments be limitless!
More information on the championship can be found at: www.streetball.lv.
Building on the success of ten previous conferences, Localization World came to Berlin on 9-11 June 2008. People from all over the world and from a wide range of companies attended the conference.
The attendees gathered in Berlin to network and discuss localization with the theme "Innovating Localization Business Models!" The conference sessions featured, among other sessions, interesting keynotes from the European Commission and Idea Couture. The keynotes were all hosted and moderated by Jaap van der Meer, the cofounder and director of the Translation Automation User Society (TAUS).
And as is our custom, Skrivanek was there to gain more knowledge and exchange experiences with other major players from the industry. It was a great opportunity for networking with professionals from all over the world.
Skrivanek participated in a raffle and, when the event ended, drew the happy winner of a luxurious, handmade wood and leather case filled with fine late harvest Czech wines and a traditionally made hand writing set including an original letter opener. The lucky winner was software engineering manager Juha Viikki from Autodesk.
Skrivanek has been ranked as number 20 in an independent study of the top language service providers in the world released by American research and consulting company Common Sense Advisory. Skrivanek also achieved a 37.3% growth in sales revenue from 2006 to 2007, which ranks the company as number 6.
Overall, the LSPs in Common Sense Advisory’s Top 25 list averaged 26% growth over the previous year, creating a global industry total of US$12.1 billion dollars. The list, which is based on the 2007 fiscal year has expanded from the top 20 companies to the top 25 and provides in-depth research of the language industry.
Skrivanek is very proud that has managed to continue walking on the path that has been set for the future of global LSPs giants and is determined to carry on with providing comprehensive top-quality services in the field of global language solutions.
You may see the general results here.
Every month the Entrepreneurship Center Vienna introduces an innovative company from the Central European Region and Skrivanek was selected from among thousands of companies operating in this region due to its pro-active, ground-breaking and professional approach in the translation and localization industry. The Entrepreneurship Centre Vienna also values our high-end language school and interpreting services.
Skrivanek was chosen along with such big names as SkyEurope Airlines, Grisoft and Ikarus Software and is proud to stand on the same pedestal as these corporations.
The information about Skrivanek Translation Services being named a company of the month can be found at the http://www.ecvienna.at website, in the section “for entrepreneurs”, subsection “company of the month”.
The TU/WU Entrepreneurship Center Vienna (EC Vienna) is a joint initiative of the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration (WU Wien).
The EC Vienna aims at promoting the commercial use of scientific research in start-ups as well as in innovation projects of established companies.
Skrivanek Slovenia has become a proud partner of the international theatre festival EuroGlobe and within the framework of the festival is providing interpreting services and conference support at various events accompanying this fascinating project.
EuroGlobe offers a stage for political and cultural elaboration on Europe, building on the traditions of Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, which placed exchange, creation and interaction between the audience and the performers centre stage.
The stage, with its broad range of activities, will move between the European Presidencies in Slovenia, France and the Czech Republic, building on a continuous dialogue, exchange and creation within each and between each country. A unique location in each country will be transformed into the EuroGlobe through the construction of a real Shakespearean stage in a room created by national art students. The EuroGlobe arena will be as diverse as Europe itself.
Together with theatre assemblies, youth NGOs, Shakespeare enthusiasts, politicians and many more, EuroGlobe will stage a broad programme, spanning the cultural and political arena during its ten-day programme. Creativity, debate and exchange will bring people together in the EuroGlobe to reflect about the past, present and future of Europe in anything from classical Shakespeare plays to workshops, political youth assemblies or even a Poetry Slam and Rap Music Freestyle event.
The non-profit MINI-EURO 2008 of the Czech-German Football School which was once again sponsored and supported by Skrivanek GmbH is a successful and multi-prized project.
The tournament offers children from the Czech Republic and Germany a great opportunity to train together and to acquire knowledge of the languages and cultures of the neighbouring countries in a sporting way which is an approach Skrivanek fully supports.
This years MINI EURO of the Czech-German Football School took place from 2 to 4 May 2008 in Františkovy Lázně / Cheb and Rehau. The top-class youth tournament is bearing the slogan Against Racism and Violence. As in the years before, the best U11 youth teams from Western and Eastern Europe competed at the tournament for the title and set a common sign for peace and tolerance in football. UEFA, the Bavarian and the Czech FA were patrons of this unique tournament.
A total of 13 teams from famous European Clubs such as Bayern Munich, Olympique de Marseille, Glasgow Rangers, Red Star Belgrade, CSKA Moscow or F.C. Porto participated in the sporting competition.
Skrivanek congratulates the football players of the German-Czech football school on the championship.
The full results can be seen here.
On the afternoon of April 5 employees of Skrivanek Latvia went out to Copes, a guest house in Suntazi parish, to celebrate together five successful years of doing business in Latvia.
The event started with exciting team games; the winning team arrived first at treasures, hidden at the end of a jetty.
Following a specially created script, during the evening colleagues transformed into a vividly dressed team of sea-farers – a captain, captain’s mate, navigation officer, navigation officer’s assistant, gunpowder master, inhabitants of a harbour town and other characters. A murder mystery and finding the guilty person was staged – although the crime was not solved, everything ended positively – the victim came to life, and the pirates feasted merrily until dawn broke over the sky of Vidzeme.
On 9 April of this year, five years will have passed since the Skrivanek Group opened its first branch in the Baltic region – in Riga, the capital city of Latvia.
During these five years, Skrivanek Latvia has grown rapidly, expanding the variety of services it offers and selling itself as a reliable cooperative partner to a wide range of clients in Latvia and abroad.
This would certainly be impossible without the trust of our clients, the abilities of our employees, the support from our cooperative partners and the daily tasks completed professionally and responsibly by various language specialists.
We thank you for the successful collaboration of the past and hope it will continue into the future!
On 19 March, the Skrivanek Latvia and Latvian State Language Agency research study: The Use of Language and the Quality of Translations from Foreign Languages into Latvian was concluded with a presentation of the results, which was held in Hotel de Rome’s conference hall. The project was carried out from January to March 2008 in order to implement qualitative and grammatically correct translations from foreign languages into Latvian, determine the nature of complaints companies have regarding inadequate translations and what causes inadequate translations.
Over the course of the study, interviews were conducted with employees of Latvian companies, professional interpreters and translators, and university faculty.
More information on the results of the study can found here!
At the end of the conference, Skrivanek Latvia Director Aiga Veckalne congratulated three Riga Centre Humanitarian Secondary School students – Marta Tomase, Ilga Sokolova and Andris Šuvajevs – who earned recognition during the quote competition held during International Native Language Week. For the competition, translation agency Skrivanek Latvia invited high school students to prepare a single quote, which, in the opinion of the student, was the most lyrical and beautiful quote from a piece of Latvian prose of their choice. A total of 107 student entries were received and judged.
The tekom international conference and fair is one of the most important fairs in the industry in Germany. The spring event will take place in Friedrichshafen, Germany, on the 3rd and 4th of April.
The focus this year will be on “standardization”. Introducing new standards and developing existing standards can help to optimize procedures, reduce friction losses and improve the quality.
This motto is extremely important for Skrivanek too, so the company will be participating at this annual conference, where it will present its new technology and outstanding translation and localization services.
Gesellschaft für Technische Kommunikation e.V. – tekom is the German professional association for technical communication. It is a platform for the exchange of information and experience, and promotes the training, advanced qualification and further professionalization of its members
The Skrivanek team members are looking forward to meeting you there at booth 29.
March of this year has been deemed “Good Customer Service Month”. This year’s campaign is once again being organised by “Hansa Conferences”
in collaboration with Riga Council and many other businesses well known throughout Latvia."Good Customer Service Month" will take place simultaneously in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The goal of the campaign is to motivate businesses and organisations to demonstrate their concern for the quality of their customer service, as well as re-evaluate the main problems in this area.
During the event, Skrivanek Latvia invites existing clients, potential collaboration partners and all who are interested to express their opinions about the culture of our translation centre’s customer service.
Survey forms, reviews, critiques and suggestions can be dropped in the Skrivanek Latvia client service centre questionnaire box. If you are unable to personally show up or wish to remain anonymous, we invite you to use the electronic form of the survey, which can be found through this link: http://www.skrivanek.com/lv/viedoklis.php
Commendations are collected via these channels: on the Web at www.labsserviss.lv, in survey format, via e-mail at info@labsserviss.lv and through the information line 1180.
http://www.skrivanek.com/lv/_download/laba_servisa_menesis.pdf
Skrivanek Latvia invites you to visit us at the International Exhibition for Education SKOLA 2008!
Specialists from the language learning and translation branches of our company will be happy to meet you and answer your questions about foreign language lessons, the very latest about this branch, our company and the services it offers.
You will be able to meet Skrivanek Latvia representatives at the International Exhibition Centre "Ķīpsala", stand A16, from 28 February to 2 March. The exhibition will be open to visitors weekdays from 10:00 to 18:00 and weekends from 10:00 to 17:00. Those who visit our stand on the opening day will have the opportunity to participate in a small competition.
We hope to see you at the exhibition SKOLA 2008!
Every year globalized entrepreneurship connects business partners from remote places, with different mentalities, traditions and languages.
We have already become used to covering the distance in daily communication using virtual conferences in Skype’s environment – where every participant of the conference or meeting can take part in discussion, without leaving the office.
To provide more thorough multi-language communication SIA Tulkojumu birojs Skrivanek Latvia offers consecutive translations of Skype conferences, as well as translations of Skype correspondence.
International Mother Language Day was proclaimed by UNESCO's General Conference in November 1999. The International Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and cultural diversity and multilingualism.
Languages are the most powerful instruments of preserving and developing our tangible and intangible heritage. All moves to promote the dissemination of mother tongues will serve not only to encourage linguistic diversity and multilingual education but also to develop fuller awareness of linguistic and cultural traditions throughout the world and to inspire solidarity based on understanding, tolerance and dialogue.
As of the beginning of January, 2008, "Skrivanek Latvia" started English language lessons for Paralympic champion Aigars Apinis and his colleagues – individuals with disabilities from the "Organisation for people with disabilities and their friends, 'Apeirons'."
Recurrent Paralympic champion A. Apinis was happy to take the opportunity to receive English lessons, saying he wished to improve his English language skills in order to improve communication during competitions and training sessions abroad.
In their turn, the predominantly younger members of SO "Apeirons" hope to improve their language skills to aid with studies and everyday work situations.
We hope that our support will introduce a new and wider range of possibilities to the students!
Members of the "Latvian-Czech Association" were invited to a meeting in January of this year. Over the course of the evening, news of the relationship between the two countries and their cultures was discussed. During the event there was an election to choose the nongovernmental organisation’s new chairperson, after which – replacing translator Jānis Krastiņš – the director of our company, Aiga Veckalne, was named the new "Latvian-Czech Association" chairperson.
The "Latvian-Czech Association" was founded at the beginning of the 90s and unites people who are interested in the Czech culture, history, and nature. Currently, one of the organisation’s main aims is to become a source of information for everyone interested in the Czech Republic.
On 21st January 2008, during the ceremonial Gala event at the Polish Theatre in Warsaw (Teatr Polski w Warszawie), the results of the second edition of “An Equal Opportunities Company” competition were announced. The competition enabled the selection of companies and institutions that have introduced the most effective solutions concerning equal opportunities for men and women in the workplace. The conception of the competition was developed by both male and female experts of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
Over 130 companies and public institutions from all over Poland offered their readiness to take part in this year’s edition of “An Equal Opportunities Company” competition. 100 employers were accepted for participation in it. The companies and institutions entered for the competition were examined by means of the Gender Index, an innovative tool for analysing the workplace that was developed by a team of male and female experts from the leading Polish schools of higher education.
Skrivanek took the first place in the ‘small and medium-sized enterprises’ category - the company employs a total of 130 people, including 108 women. The company’s management methods ensure the equality of promotion and training opportunities. Skrivanek partially funds medical care for its male and female employees and their families, as well as sports activities and foreign language education for employees’ children.
Prof. dr hab. Danuta Hübner, the European Commissioner for Regional Policy, took patronage over this year's competition. During the Gala event, a letter from Lech Kaczyński, the President of the Republic of Poland, was read. The Gender Index Project, which covers the organisation of the “An Equal Opportunities Company” competition, is implemented with the use of funds from the European Social Fund within the EQUAL Community Initiative. The conception of the competition was developed by male and female experts of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).
The “An Equal Opportunities Company 2007” competition – the Competition Committee chaired by prof. dr hab. Adam Budnikowski, the Rector of Warsaw School of Economics - resulted in granting the following honours:
More information - http://www.genderindex.pl
In January of this year, readers were invited to participate in Skrivanek Latvia and www.db.lv’s jointly organized quiz. The grand prizewinner would receive complementary English language lessons (40 academic hours) – worth 165 LVL – in a group setting at Skrivanek Latvia Language School.
Participants had to correctly answer questions about businesses and languages.
The winner of the competition was loyal www.db.lv reader and DnB Nord Bank employee Andris Zuika. Zuika expressed his thanks and pleasant surprise at getting a chance to brush up on his English language skills – something he had planned on doing for some time.
From January to March 2008, Skrivanek Latvia will conduct a language study, titled “The Usage and Culture of Language in Latvian Enterprises”, in order to update the meaning of clear and grammatically correct literary language translations from foreign languages into Latvian. The study will be done in collaboration with the Latvian State Language Agency and the newspaper Dienas Bizness.
The study will lay the foundation for future in-depth research. It is UNESCO’s first “2008, International Year of Languages” project announced in Latvia. UNESCO declared 2008 to be the International Year of Languages, emphasizing language as essential to the identity of every country and its nation.
The goal of the study is to draw attention to the language quality of literary works translated from foreign languages.
For more detailed information on the results of the study, as well as comments and suggestions from language specialists for improving the situation, please join us for our March conference.
The United Nations General Assembly has proclaimed 2008 the International Year of Languages. It aims to promote unity through linguistic diversity. The Assembly called upon states and the Secretariat to work towards the conservation and defence of the world's languages and requested the Secretariat to appoint a coordinator for multilingualism.
The idea of devoting a whole year to languages was proposed by Austria two years ago at the 33rd UNESCO General Conference held in Paris.
To celebrate the International Year of Languages, UNESCO invited governments, United Nations organizations, civil society organizations, educational institutions, professional associations and all other stakeholders to increase their own activities to promote and protect all languages, particularly endangered languages, in all individual and collective contexts.
Skrivanek is proud to be a part of such a significant event as well. We will support and prepare many activities and events to promote this event of global importance. We are looking forward to the year 2008, which will bring many challenging opportunities.
On the evening of January 17th, representatives from various American Chamber of Commerce member businesses gathered in the cosy rooms of learning centre “Skrivanek Latvia Language School”. The evening’s topic was “The Meaning of Language in an Intercultural Context”. Guests heard from Skrivanek Latvia’s Regional Manager Aiga Veckalne and from American Chamber of Commerce Executive Director Līga Bērtulsone. With the help of an engaging presentation, guests were given the opportunity to learn more about the Skrivanek Group’s history, experience, and services, as well as the influence globalisation has on the translation business.
A prize draw for Skrivanek Latvia gift certificates was held at the event.
Thank you to everyone who attended. We look forward to your next visit!
On December 17th, 2007 Skrivanek was officially welcomed aboard and accepted as a member of one of the translation and localization industry’s best respected institutions – The Translation Automation User Society (TAUS).
With this membership, our company has become a part of a prestigious community of users and providers of translation technologies and services. The Translation Automation User Society (TAUS) is a community of users and providers of translation technologies and services. The ambition of the TAUS community is to translate a manifold of content in an increasing number of languages through technology adoption, service innovation and cross-industry collaboration.
TAUS focuses on the whole spectrum of authoring, translation and globalization processes and technologies.
More information can be found at: http://www.translationautomation.com
Preliminary reading of prose by young writers took place on the 8th of December at the annual Prose Reading in the Museum of Writing. Prose Reading has been held since 1995 and is a widely attended festival in Latvia, which unites many persons interested in literature and young talented people. More than 30 writers of different generations performed in the festival with reading of their newest works – professionals, beginners, home-grown writers, and foreign guests. This year the event was especially supported by Skrivanek Latvia.
The moderator of Prose Reading, writer Arvis Kolmanis, expressed thanks to Skrivanek Latvia for supporting young authors in the course of the reading event.
In the framework of the event from nine readings of young writers Skrivanek Latvia chose the winner – young author Oskars Orlovs, who was awarded the prize – 40 academic hours in “Skrivanek Latvia Language School”.
Visit us in order to agree upon the courses, best suited to you! Apply for courses.
The International Film Festival was held as usual in Bratislava. In course of its 9th year, prizes in 10 categories were awarded, i.e.: Movie of the Year 2007, One-Motion-Theatre Cinema of the Year, Film Club of the Year, the Most Popular Film of the Year, Subtitles/Dubbing of the Year, Distribution Company of the Year, Advertising Campaign of the Year, the Most Important Slovak Audio-Vision Event of the Year, Television Event of the Year and the Most Popular Palace Cinemas Movie of the Year.
SKRIVANEK Slovakia as the guarantor of translators was addressed to hand over a prize in the category “Best Translation of Subtitles of the Year 2007”. The prize was awarded to Dana Farkašová forZodiac movie subtitles. It was a demanding and extensive translation from English into Slovak provided in a relatively short time.
From February 4th, 2008, we invite 9th and 12th grade pupils either with Latvian or Russian native language to improve their knowledge of English that will help them to succeed in their final exam.
Lessons will be taught by professional educators who have experience of working with future graduates! You will have an opportunity to prepare thoroughly for reading, grammatical, listening, writing and speaking parts of the exam, as well as to consult with teacher individually about essential issues and topics!
One class lasts 90 minutes. One course of study lasts 40 academic hours. The number of learners in a group: from 5 to 10 persons. Apply now!
Skrivanek Bulgaria is proud to be a partner of the First SEE Business Information Forum that took place in the city of Sofia. Organizers of the event were SeeNews – the leading business information provider for Southeast Europe, the International University College and other partners that are leaders in your sphere – COTRUGLI, COFACE BULGARIA, BULGARIAN BUSINESS LEADERS FORUM, and SCIP. SKRIVANEK provided professional simultaneous interpretation during the whole event. This year experts from Bulgaria, Croatia, Slovenia, England and the USA were present. The Business Information Forum in Bulgaria is expected to become a significant regional event.
The Business Information Forum focuses on the effective use of this kind of information. A discussion was open about the use of information literacy, business and competitive intelligence. The event aims at helping organisations develop their business intelligence activities so as to stay ahead of competitors. The conference is a meeting point for decision-makers from various industries and professionals from the information, business development, competitive intelligence, and business education industries.
For more business information visit http://bif.seenews.com
It was 10 years ago, 13.11.1997, when first Skrivanek's branch was opened in Poland.
During those ten years we managed to build a company covering the whole territory of Poland and providing thousands of Polish and international clients with its language services. Successful projects have been completed in that period, such as implementation of a language school, development of an e-learning product and opening of an international project centre. An independent department is focused on conference organization and interpreting, and sales assistants successfully communicate with clients.
We would like to kindly thank you for your trust and current cooperation.
This is the second year in a row that the Skrivanek branch in Poland has been included in research of the most stable elite enterprises carried out by “Lubelskie Voivodship”, taking into account their rapid development in Poland, investment in the working out of new solutions, as well as the increase of employees. Currently there are 111 people working in the Skrivanek branch in Poland.
It is published in the third edition of “Najlepsze firmy” (Best enterprises), offered by “Gazeta Bankowa” (business newspaper of Poland) in cooperation with “Dun&Bradstreet” (the supplier of information about entrepreneurship). Assessment of the activity of the best enterprises in the country is provided in the research.
The criteria of assessing enterprises are based on their profitability, debt structures and the analysis of liquidity data. Also factors, which are not connected with finances, were taken into consideration, like mode of payment, and history of legal issues connected with the enterprise under review.
For more information, see the home page of “Gazeta Bankowa”. The report is published in edition 33 (981) of “Gazeta Bankowa” from August 13-19, 2007.
Press here to download the report (3.0MB).
The 11th International Conference on Management, entitled “Is competitive and long-lasting development two sides of the same coin?”, organized by the Latvian Quality Association in cooperation with the Ministry of Economy of the Republic of Latvia, will take place at the hotel “Radisson SAS Daugava” on the 22nd and 23rd of November.
We are honoured to support this comprehensive quality conference dedicated to management issues by providing our quality interpreting services. We will also be on hand to meet you, the conference participants, to answer your questions and provide information about the services currently offered by our branch here in
See you at the hotel Radison SAS Daugava
On the 3rd of November representatives from Skrivanek
SIA “Esplanāde” won the prize “Christmas miracle in
The Director of the advertising agency, Jānis Blunavs, offered the prize of a Christmas trip to
We hope that they have a nice trip and we look forward to further mutually successful cooperation in the future!
Tulkojumu birojs Skrivanek
The representatives of our enterprise will be glad to meet you and answer all your questions about innovations in the industry, our enterprise and the services it offers.
See you on November 7th in Reval Hotel Latvija in
On the 25th of October the team of Skrivanek
With a glass of wine and snacks guests could enjoy different ways of communicating – social chatter, subtle saxophone sounds, the mysterious gestures of mime artists and a cartoonist’s hilarious caricatures, as well as colourful cocktail drinks.
During the event director of the company Aiga Veckalne spoke to the guests and expressed her thanks to the customers and collaboration partners for the time they devoted to the event, as well as the chance to enjoy the evening together and find an opportunity to become better acquainted which is usually not possible during a normal working day.
In the new customer service centre potential and current clients can get information about all the services provided by Skrivanek
The tenth Localization World came "home" to the site of the first conference, and attracted over 500 participants from 31 countries to network and discuss localization with the theme "Local Language First!" The conference sessions featured keynotes from Wired and Microsoft. Preconference round tables included medical and games localization round tables, internationalization and multilingual content.
And as is our custom, Skrivanek was there to gain more knowledge and exchange experiences with other major players from the industry. It was a great opportunity for networking with professionals from all over the world.
Skrivanek participated in a raffle and, when the event ended, drew the happy winner of an original handmade Czech crystal vase. The winner was Yuki Imai from the TOIN Corporation.
To find out more about the conference, please visit www.localizationworld.com.
Camera Obscura is the International Festival of TV Reportage - the festival has been present in Polish cultural landscape for four years and it has become a great forum of exchange of experiences and ideas related to TV reportage - a form merging journalism and documentary filmmaking. This year’s edition will take place in Bydgoszcz, 25-28.10.2007.
Skrivanek is supporting this year’s edition by delivering translation services – we will be translating subtitles of registered festival movies. We will also provide simultaneous interpreting as well as conference equipment for the Final Gala Event.
More info - http://www.cameraobscura.pl/start_eng.html
Skrivanek is proud to be a partner of the 13th International Festival of Contemporary Arts - City of Women, which will take place in Ljubljana from 3-13 October 2007.
Each year the festival invites between forty and sixty women artists and intellectuals, and attracts some six- to seven-thousand visitors from all walks of life. Since its institution, the City of Women Festival has welcomed over four hundred artists and academics from all over the world, ranging from the emerging to the pre-eminent. In establishing liaisons with many different institutional and alternative venues in the city of Ljubljana, Slovenia and abroad, the festival enjoys wide media exposure, while Slovenia's premier national cultural centre, Cankarjev Dom, has acted as co-producer for the past decade.
The Association for the Promotion of Women in Culture - City of Women was founded in 1996 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, and was established with the aim of lobbying on gender issues and promoting equality.
Skrivanek provides interpreting services during the festival as well as translations of lectures and presentations of the artists.
From October 1st individuals can pay for the language courses organized by Skrivanek Latvia in instalments. Specialists from our new client service centre will help you to draw up the documents.
See you in
We will be glad to meet you and answer all your questions!
A new client service centre Skrivanek Latvia starts operating from October 1st, where you will be able to get information about all the services provided by Skrivanek Latvia, as well as make orders and pay invoices.
There will be also lecture-rooms located at the premises, where foreign language courses will take place.
The client service centre is located in
We will be glad to meet you and answer all your questions!
From 9th till 19th of September more than 600 sportsmen from 40 countries met in Taipei, the capital of Taiwan, to take part in the World Championship organized by people in wheelchairs and amputees from IWAS (International Wheelchair and Amputee Sports Federation). Aigars Apinis, a well-known sportsman from
On September 22 this year events, arranged by the “State Language Agency” and dedicated to European Language Day, will take place in
Within the framework of this day the conference called “
During the conference our language teaching specialists will be glad to meet you and answer all your questions.
You will have the opportunity to meet our enterprise representatives on September
See you there!
This year in the middle of August the well-appointed leisure centre “Sniedzes” that is located in Ogre region (
Intense and exciting contests were held in different kinds of sports – football, relay-race, towel volleyball, and many other “frivolous” sports. “Skrivanek” Team got the best result in basketball foul shots, won the pony riding contest and became the champions of throwing a soft, but heavy ball.
Due to the well-organized agenda of the games and the variety of the kinds of sports, everybody was kept laughing and in high spirits until sunset. The brilliant sporting contest finally ended with everyone welcome to have fun on the dance floor or relax in sauna.
We would like to offer big thanks to the Latvian Quality Association for the well-organized and cordial sports event!
Gazeta Bankowa, in cooperation with Dun & Bradstreet, a provider of business information, has published the third edition of the “Najlepsze firmy” [The best companies] ratings.
The criteria for selection and assessment of the companies remained the same as in previous years. In order to be included in the listing of dynamic and profitable enterprises, the companies primarily had to:
The assessment was carried out on the basis of profitability ratios, debt ratios and liquidity ratios, and also the “Failure Score” ratio, which compares the company's risk in relation to the risk for the whole group of companies carrying out comprehensive bookkeeping. This ratio allows for the precise determination of the bankruptcy risk of a company. The non-financial factors such as capital and personal interrelations, payment practices and the history of legal events related to the analysed company, were also taken into consideration.
In order to obtain more information, please refer to the website of Gazeta Bankowa.
It is the second time that Skrivanek has been included in the elite group of the most reliable companies of the Lubelskie Voivodship. The company has been continuously developing, investing in new solutions and increasing employment year by year. Currently, Skrivanek in Poland permanently employs 111 people.
The report was issued in Gazeta Bankowa issue no. 33 (981) dated August 13th -19th, 2007.
This article can be downloaded by clicking here (3.0MB).
The full version of the rating for the Mazowieckie, Podlaskie, Lubelskie and Łódzkie Voivodship - PDF.
Skrivanek once again is proud to be a Partner of the ERA NEW HORIZONS Festival, which started on 19th of July in Wrocław. The grand opening was honoured with Cristian Mungiu’s 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days screening – a film that was awarded a MFF Cannes Palme d'Or, 2007.
On the first day all fans had a chance to listen to Marianne Faithfull at her one and only concert in Poland.
ERA NEW HORIZONS is a festival of films that go beyond the limits of conventional cinema – over 600 screenings in 11 days, meetings with directors, actors, producers and special events make this Festival the most important in Polish cinema.
Skrivanek provides interpreting services during the Festival as well as translation for the official website, catalogue and press releases.
For many years our enterprise has provided the opportunity for a number of Latvian companies to study languages, and, starting from 1st October 2007, individuals will be able to join language courses, as well!
Classes will be led by experienced professionals. We invite students with a good command of the foreign language to attend courses, led by native speakers.
The educational programme and methods are specially worked out and comply with standard requirements ISO 9001:2001; moreover these principles have been used by Czech and Polish branches of Skrivanek Group for more than ten years.
We invite you to attend exciting English, German, Latvian, Russian, Spanish, French and Italian language classes from October, provided for people with different levels of foreign language competence!
For those, who are interested in specific terminology of some spheres and applied language, we recommend attending intensive seminars, where they will have the opportunity to master specific terminology, take part in different games and make presentations.
Visit us in order to agree upon the courses, best suited to you!
On a summer weekend the personnel of Skrivanek Baltic branches with families met for their traditional annual summer event. This year the guests were warmly welcomed to “Ratnieki” part of Līgatne rural municipality in Latvia.
On the first day of the event everyone was enjoying the opportunity to go sightseeing and get to know the unusual monuments of Latvian nature and history: Vējiņi underground lakes and the Āraišu Lake Castle. Luckily for the guests of the employee, an ostrich farm was also visited. Ostriches are not usually seen in Latvia!.
After the excursions, the official part of the event took place in the Guest House. The best employees of the company were recognised during the evening; everybody also had the opportunity to try a festive meal. Jollity and team spirit were roused by various social/initiative games , as well as conversation by the BBQ but the amicable mood was really enriched by laughter and team spirit.
A proverb says – make hay while the sun shines – so in terms of the proverb our enterprise offers you advance notice of a golden opportunity to pay a visit to the miraculous city of Prague at Christmas.
It will all come true if you take part in our promotion!
All the enterprises making orders (both, language teaching and translation services) with Skrivanek Latvia Ltd. during the period from July 2 until October 31 of the present year, will become participants in the promotion.
The winning enterprise will be rewarded with a relaxing and sensational trip for two persons to Prague at Christmas!
The prize includes the following – a prepaid double room in a five star hotel, a prepaid round trip for two persons from Riga to Prague, a comforting SPA treatment for your body & soul, and a guided tour around the Old Town of Prague.
The offer is valid for all the enterprises, incorporated in the Republic of Latvia, making orders with Tulkojumu Birojs Skrivanek Latvia Ltd.
Within the campaign, each translation or language teaching order confirmed by the customer corresponds to one point.
The enterprise that scores the highest number of points will gain the prize.
We wish you best of luck!
It is already the 16th time the annual Global Summit of Women, frequently referred to as the “Davos for Women” has been held. This summit brings together top female executives from business and government and this year the summit was held in the sunshine of Berlin from June 14 to 16. More than 1000 politicians, businesspersons and representatives of non-governmental organizations from 95 countries took part in the summit. The President of the Republic of Latvia Her Excellency Vaira Vike-Freiberga appeared to be one of the most prominent guests and spokeswomen at the summit during which the President was presented with the Global Women’s Leadership Award. During the summit Latvia was represented by Ms. Ina Gudele, Special Assignments Minister for Electronic Government Affairs as well as a delegation of eight female leaders in business, including Ms. Aiga Veckalne, the Area Manager of Translation Service Skrivanek Latvia. In order to discuss the future prospects and the effect of the summit the Latvian business women were given an opportunity to meet the President of Latvia.
In the lectures and workshops of the summit, successful and well-known female business leaders and government executives shared their experience about leadership, equality and the significance of diversity in a team. A wide range of topics highly important to Latvia were discussed at the summit. The topics discussed include – public private partnership, innovations, security of intellectual property, the latest developments in technology and support for small and medium enterprises.
At this summit, Skrivanek Group was represented by its General Manager Jitka Steinmetzová and Baltic Region Area Manager Aiga Veckalne.
It was 10 admirable years ago, when Pavel Skřivánek made his decision to penetrate into the Polish market and thanks to the support of diligent colleagues, the first branches were established in Poland.
During the past ten years, they managed to build a "Translation Empire" covering the whole territory of Poland and providing thousands of Polish clients with its language services. Successful projects have been completed in that period, such as implementation of a language school, development of an e-learning product and opening of an international project centre. An independent department is focused on conference organization and interpreting, and sales assistants successfully communicate with clients.
No wonder that Polish colleagues have decided to celebrate their success accordingly. At the end of May, all Polish "Skrivaneks” gathered together in a recreational centre called Serock, approximately 50 km from Warsaw, to have a weekend full of fun, teambuilding and reminiscing. It was no ordinary weekend. Friday started with a common lunch and well-deserved gifts for everybody. Using the gifts, our staff can represent the Skrivanek Company in their private life too, wearing their Skrivanek T-shirts or using the high capacity USB flash drive.
After lunch, there was time for a two-hour free discussion with “those who remember the old times” who, sitting on comfortable seats on the stage, reminisced back to the very beginnings. The current President of the Skrivanek Poland branch, Ewa Gnyp, had to be there, and from time to time she invited employees currently working for Skrivanek to contribute with a joke or curiosity from the hard pioneer stage of their activities. We heard stories which seem incredible today, how they worked from their desk, with no computers available, people were not able to work with fax machines etc. Those devoted employees have been specially awarded for their hard work and loyalty with a notebook bag.
Thereafter, the owner himself, Pavel Skřivánek, entered the scene and after his short speech full of thanks to all the staff, the full-evening party was started with a toast, followed by a great program, barbecue and drinking in the fresh air. For everyone’s entertainment, each branch prepared short amusing theatrical presentations which were witty, creative and very well performed at a professional actor’s level. The topic was – as you can guess – everyday work in a translating business. Winners were rewarded with the loudest applause and received a nice prize. The party really started to heat up – people listened to a concert, danced to music provided by a DJ and admired fire dancers at midnight.
A demanding full day of teambuilding was prepared for Saturday, with the title “Foreign Country” and the Polish “Skrivaneks” proved to be a great team. They fought like lions and fully supported each other.
In the evening, Polish colleagues launched into samba movements, dancing all night in a Hawaiian-Latin style with traditional Hawaii leis made from orchids around their necks and straw hats on their heads. There was a beach created outside, where tropical cocktails were mixed accompanied by musicians with bongos. Ladies could use the services of a beauty consultant, who gave her advice on skincare and makeup application. Courageous candidates agreed to be tattooed with henna.
On Sunday after lunch, all of them made their way home, tired but thinking of what a good job they do and how great their colleagues are.
The European Local Transport Information Service, is Europe's portal for local transport news and events, transport measures, policies and practices implemented in cities and regions across Europe. Skrivanek Hungary was asked to participate in a tender for a localization marketing campaign and succeeded amidst immense international competition.
The aim of this demanding project was the translation of internationally distributed materials from English into 18 languages - Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Estonian, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Serbian, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish and Turkish.
The underlying factors of our success in managing such demanding projects and delivering comprehensive language portfolios such as for ELTIS are that we can rely on the international background of Skrivanek and the skills, abilities, experience and professionalism of ourproject managers from all over the world. We also took advantage of TRADOS translation memories and TRADOS MultiTerm in achieving the highest possible cost effectiveness, quality and consistent terminology, with which the client was very happy.
The results of our work can be seen here.
Representatives of Czech towns, municipalities and enterprises have been greatly taking advantage of our presence in China. Recently, our interpreters have been translating for many delegations that are now in China developing their enterprise or business relations.
In the second half of May, for instance, the County Mayor of the Zlínský region visited the provinces of Liaoning and Shandong, and signed contracts there on mutual co-operation between these regions. We were present at this event as highly requested and respected interpreters.
We have successfully interpreted at many important business workshops where Czech entrepreneurs participated, and at many bilateral meetings between Czech and Chinese companies.
At the end of May we also interpreted for the delegation of Komerční banka at a trade fair in the city of Chengdu, where we also took part as exhibitors.
We would like to thank all of our clients and we hope that our presence in China will make business trips easier for many Czech entrepreneurs, as well as for other companies from other parts of Europe, who will surely appreciate our knowledge of Chinese culture and geography as well as our professional interpreting services.
On May 24, the School of Business Administration” Turība” held the II International Corporate Social Responsibility Conference ”Business: Profit & Responsibility”. The event involved lecturers, researchers, diplomats, state and municipal officials, ambassadors, representatives of non-governmental organizations, entrepreneurs from the Baltic countries, Scandinavia, Greece, USA, Austria, Canada, Belorussia and other countries.
During the event, the results of a competition to find the Small and Medium Enterprises who best encompassed and implemented the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility Practice in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania: were also presented.
For prizes in the Baltic sphere, nominations from more than 150 companies were considered.
“Skrivanek Latvia” received a prize for Socially Responsible Communication in Latvia for its innovative customer care and employee training and social welfare programme)
The prizes were awarded by the representative of the European Commission’s Company and Industry General Directorate Mr. Tom Dodd, the President of the Latvian Business Consultants Association Dr.oec. Andris Deniņš, the Dean of the Faculty of Public Relations of School of Business Administration ”Turība” Mr. Andris Pētersons and Director of „ITA Konsultants” Ms. Ilze Bumbiere.
The members of the conference were also acquainted with the research done in the Baltic countries ”Corporate Social Responsibility Practice in Small and Medium Enterprises in the Baltic countries”, which involved 1500 entrepreneurs.
We took the 1st place in terms of the number of branches and 18th place in terms of turnover among examined world translation agencies.
Results of a prestigious study by the independent American company Common Sense Advisory.
At the beginning of May the results of a large prestigious study, executed by experts of the independent specialized company Common Sense Advisory, based in the United States, were published. The study assessed major translation and localization companies worldwide, rendering comprehensive language services in the translation sector.
Skrivanek took first place in terms of the number of branches and eighteenth place in terms of turnover, and thus it has become an equal partner of the biggest international agencies. We are proud that we have managed to join the international translation giants and we are determined to continue with providing our comprehensive top-quality services in the field of language solutions.
You may see the results in a synoptic table. The full unabridged study is available at the website of the authors of the study www.commonsenseadvisory.com.
On 22 May 2007, an official agreement was signed between ”Skrivanek Latvia” and the Riga Technical University Language Institute on the ensuring of students’ practice places in our company until 22 May 2013.
We have undertaken to ensure translation practice places for students selected in a competition procedure, which actually means active involvement in the students’ training process, which is connected with valuable practical knowledge and skills.
The work of each trainee will be supervised by an experienced and knowledgeable practice manager, but at the end of translation practice the student’s knowledge and achievements during the practice will be assessed.
