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At CIUTI Forum 2015, representatives of translation industry, international and national entities and organisations, professional associations, trainers and researchers offered insights into their everyday work. One of the main themes was the Silk Road Project and its multifaceted linguistic, cultural and economic approaches.

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The speakers of the 2015 edition of the Forum all showed a particular interest in interdisciplinary research and training. The representatives of translation industry, international and national entities and organisations, professional associations, trainers and researchers offered deep insights into their everyday work, displaying all the problems encountered and solutions found. One of the main themes was also the Silk Road Project and its multifaceted approaches - linguistic, cultural and economic - with all its drawbacks, pitfalls and challenges. In the section Transnational Private Public Partnerships the speakers stressed the importance of a global network of quality oriented partners. Interdisciplinary highlights were speakers from other disciplines who addressed in their speeches problems concerning world economy and science, which are of vital importance to all major actors.

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Top-level Planning, identification and goals in T&I: The role of supranational bodies and institutions - Patrick Twidle: Confiance et confidentialité - Juan Carlos Jimenez Marin: The European Parliament and interpretation - Combining increased legislative powers with budgetary constraints - Valter Mavric: Strategies for collaboration with freelance professionals - Christos Ellinides: Achieving excellence in translation - Openness and inclusiveness, core issues of collaboration: Eurasia and the Silk Road economic belt - Long Peng: Communication and collaboration across Eurasia: Past, Present and Future - Ailing Zhang: Navigating the Community of Common Destiny: making sense of China´s catchphrases - Deming Cao: La traduction: pierre angulaire de la coopération entre l´occident et l´orient - Wei Cheng: Translation and intercultural communication on the Silk Road economic belt: A Chinese Perspective - Hee-Soo Lee: 1500 years of contact between Korea and the Middle East - The Role of Ancient Silk Road as the Path of Language Communication - Olga Egorova: Persian and Turkish as Pillars of the Silk Road Economic Belt: a Challenge for T & I Training - Henri Awaiss: Quand la communication se tache de sang - Transnational private-public partnership: the influence of varying institutionalization on effectiveness and efficiency - Jan Roukens: European multilingualism at risk: scientific languages and terminology disappear rapidly - Thaqib A. Al-Shalan/Mohamed Al-Hasan: Translation into Arabic language in medical education - The deterritorialization of translation services - preserving confidentiality and credibility; a problem for translation in the cloud - Christine Kamer Diehl: Dark clouds gathering mean stormy weather: On deterritorialisation of translation services and preserving confidentiality and credibility - the problem of cloud computing for the translation industry - Fran‡ois Massion: Are Translations Becoming a Commodity? - Dirk Verbeke: Remote Interpreter training, cloud technology and practice - John Geaney: Times of uncertainty means business as usual - Innara Guseynova: Intercultural Communication: "Soft Power" of Sustainable Cooperation - Peter A. Schmitt: Crowdsourcing, Crowd Translation and Cloud-based Free Content: Its impact on the T&I Industry - Contributions to human communication - Gyo-Young Bang: A case study on interpreting service by NGO - Ji-Youn Hwang: Medical Interpreter Training in Korea - Nadia Rodriguez/Bettina Schnell: Intercultural pragmatics meets translation: Intercultural competence revisited from the perspective of pragmatics - Missions - Stéphane Berthet: Rosetta une odyssée spatiale vers les origins du système solaire - Martin Forstner: Translationswissenschaft mitgestalten im globalen Wandel: Public Diplomacy im Rahmen der CIUTI Foren - Ciuti Prize - Manon Hermann: Machen/Tun & Maken/Doen: Das Richtige tun und dabei keinen Fehler machen

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