Report on the EMCI Students’ training experience with online classes and exams during lockdown

The report discusses experience with conference interpreter training and exams during lockdown and the way in which the abnormal situation was managed in EMCI Universities, what the consequences were and what advantages and disadvantages, if any, could be recognized. The Project Committee first submitted a short questionnaire to the 15 EMCI Coordinators by the end of September: based on their answers a longer questionnaire was prepared for last year’s EMCI students which was then submitted at the end of October 2020. The first results of the Students’ Questionnaire were presented during the online DG SCIC conference with the universities on December 4. The first part of this paper outlines the answers to the open questions by the coordinators, while the second part presents a more detailed analysis of the results of the Students’ Questionnaire.