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The Doctoral Program T&P focuses on the role of translation and interpreting as key factors in the construction of cultures through Hisotry as well as in their capacity for change. Cultures are the result of an ever-lasting negotiation of translated texts of linguistic, iconic and/or symbolic nature. The translating person is an agent of cultural mediation with a capacity for social and political transformation both in the administration and in the Public Services. In today’s world, we are living hybrid and mixed realities —we read translated languages, watch adapted images and consume localised products that are the result of translation and interpreting assignments.

D_T&P is the only doctoral program in translation and interpreting in the Galicia-North Portugal Euroregion. The title of Doctor in Translation and Paratranslation (T&P) is officially authorized and recognized In the agreement of the Council of Ministers published on March 11th, 2014, in the BOE (Spanish Official State Gazette) establishing the official character of specific Doctoral degrees and its inscription in the Registry of Universities, Institutions and Titles. In that agreement it is mentioned as an official doctoral program in the Spanish state since it meets all the quality requirements established by the regulations.

This is a research postgraduate program complying with the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) standards and covering the demand for doctoral training by graduates in Translation and Interpreting. We offer a balanced set of theoretical and practical contents aiming both at research and at the professional qualification of translators and interpreters.

The D_T&P program offers a flexible model combining on-campus learning and distance learning. While students may follow the program from their cities/countries of origin, they can also attend on-site activities such as field-practice in Human and Social Sciences.

The D_T&P program meets the theoretical and methodological transformation undergone by the scientific area of Translation and Interpreting for the last decade, offering theoretical contents from the various steps of description, exploration and analysis of current socioprofessional realities in the digital era. This focus on real translation and interpreting situations assures a continuity between theory and practice.

This is not a theoretical program that marginally looks towards real practice; quite on the other hand, it is both a theoretical and practical doctoral program focusing on research into everyday professional praxis. Each set of research lines may be divided into T&P seminars on specific themes with their own scientific framework and their own applied orientation.

The D_T&P offers models and protocols of leading professional praxis through a set of agreements with professional, business and institutional counterparts that participate in R+D+I projects led by the Research Group T&P. The D_T&P doctoral program meets the demands from the fields of Information Technologies, Tourism, Advertising, Cultural Industries and, of course, scientific dissemination. As an example, the T&P research group produces three WebTV programs of sientific disseminarion of translation and interpreting related research: Zig-Zag, Exit and T&P Pills. These three online TV serials provide support for training and enhance basic research, development and innovation as well as productive knowledge transfer.

Established in the course 2004-05, the D_T&P was the first on line international doctoral program in the University of Vigo. In the course 2008-08 it was awarded a «quality mention» by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation. After the positive report by ACSUG (Agency for Quality Assurance in the Galician University System), it received in 2013-14 the Verification Notification from the Universities Council of the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, thus granting its continuity as a new doctoral program established in compliance with the Royal Decree 99/2011, dated the 28th January, regulating official doctoral programs.