The EUF Translation Office is Europa-Universität Flensburg's in-house translation service. In addition to translating university texts, we serve as your central point of contact for questions about terminology, English style, best practices for AI translation tools, and other cross-cutting issues. Our goal is to ensure that EUF represents itself in English using clear, correct, and consistent communications that reflect our unique house style and terminology.
Help us identify documents in need of translation
Have you discovered a document or documents in need of an English translation? Please reach out! Just send an email with the document name, department/unit, and/or EUF webpage number to laura.cunniff@uni-flensburg.de. In many cases, we can schedule the translation after contacting the department in question.
Services:
- New translations (German -> English) including document files, webpages, and audio/video files
- Updates to existing translations (German -> English)
- Language editing and proofreading of texts written in English (includes corporate language check)
- Advising - Feedback about translation options for specific terms; targeted solutions for specific staff groups or situations; clarification of the translation needs of your department or project
- Collaborative coordination - Standardization of specific terms in English at the campus level, in dialogue with other departments and the Executive Board
What types of texts does the university translation service accept?
- Webpages
- Video subtitles
- Marketing texts, press releases, and other highly visible institutional texts
- Forms and information sheets
- Contracts, rules and regulations
- Templates, recurrent texts
- Guidelines, proposals, strategy papers
- Batch documents
- Institutional and departmental names and position titles
- Etc.
If you have a very large or urgent job, please contact Laura Cunniff to discuss the best plan of action.
How can I request a translation?
You can request a translation at any time. Please email Laura Cunniff at laura.cunniff-PleaseRemoveIncludingDashes-@uni-flensburg.de the following information:
- Your name, EUF job title, and department/program
- The document file/video file to be translated or the EUF webpage number
- Your requested return date
- If possible, the reason you requested that date (e.g., upcoming event, project deadline, etc.)
→ New translation:
- Please also attach a copy of the German source document to be translated (.docx or similar).** If you have many texts, the files can be transferred via a network folder instead of email.
→ Update of an existing translation:
- Please also attach the German text on which revisions have been marked ("track changes") OR
- The updated + previous versions of the German text (no need to mark the changes).
**If you do not have an editable source document, a PDF should be ok.
Are there texts that you do not support?
EUF Translation Services does not translate:
- Academic texts (papers, presentations, theses, etcetera)
- Course materials (lesson plans, course descriptions, etcetera)
- Grant proposals (if your proposal is written in English, please contact EUF Academic Editing Services to request a free language revision).
- Individual certificates and diplomas
- CVs
- Letters of recommendation and Zeugnisse
- Webpages below a certain structural level
Laura CunniffM.A.
- Phone
- +49 461 805 2733
- laura.cunniff-PleaseRemoveIncludingDashes-@uni-flensburg.de
- Building
- Gebäude Riga 6
- Room
- RIG 603
- Street
- Mitscherlich-Nielsen-Straße 2f
- Post code / City
- 24943 Flensburg