• Keep up to date

    A newsletter from SENSE drops into members’ e-mailboxes once a month. Each newsletter brims with news about the society, training opportunities from sister societies, and notices of various kinds. There are also handy links to upcoming SENSE events and links to the latest blog posts. And if you haven’t been on social media for a while, the newsletter provides an insight into that as well.

    About three times month, SENSE sends out notices about upcoming events, society business, and important news from the industry. Members can also access past occasional mails via the website.

    SENSE members who use Facebook and LinkedIn can join SENSE’s members-only Facebook and LinkedIn pages. Around 100 members are on the Facebook group and around 150 members are on the LinkedIn group. SENSE also has a public presence on Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter, where our social media manager very regularly posts news about SENSE events, events from sister societies, and various other interesting posts related to our industry. These pages are accessible to the public.

  • Get-togethers

    SENSE regularly hosts meetings for members based on region or special interest. These meetings can be in person or online. There are several SIGs (special interest groups), such as one for educators, for medical translators and editors, for academic editors, for starters, etc.

    The society hosts workshops about 3-6 times a year that are open to both members and the public. Some of these are in person, while others are in the form of webinars. Some workshops are interactive, while others feature a guest speaker.

    An established tradition in SENSE is our annual summer social and our annual winter dinner. At these two events, members may bring their partners or a guest. The summer social is usually some kind of touristy outing. The winter dinner may be a formal sit-down or an informal buffet dinner.

  • Reaching out

    Potential clients can use the SENSE freelance register to find suitable freelance translators, editors, interpreters, copywriters, etc. etc. from among SENSE members. The register is right there on SENSE’s public website. Any member of SENSE may join the freelance register for no extra charge.

    SENSE members are encouraged to make contact with other members. That is what being in a society is all about. All SENSE members can search for or browse the list of current SENSE members. As a member, you can edit your own profile page via our website and ensure that only the information that you wish to reveal, are visible to other members.

    The society has had a monthly newsletter pretty much since the beginning in 1992. Most of these newsletters have been preserved and can be viewed by members via the website. This is a very interesting way of getting to know the society and its members, or to get new ideas from past events and activities.

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SENSE Orientation

From 06 February 2025 19:30 CET until 06 February 2025 21:00 CET
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OrietationAre you new to SENSE and looking to learn more about what the Society has to offer? Or are you a long-standing member looking for a refresher of what’s available and how to get the most out of SENSE? Either way, we invite you to join this SENSE Orientation session!

Date: 6 February 2024
Time: 19:30 - 21:00 CET
Location: Zoom

During this session, we’ll provide a brief history of SENSE and introduce you to some of the volunteers who help run the Society, before moving on to the many benefits of membership, including Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and the Mentoring Programme. We’ll then spend some time taking you through the various pages of the members’ section of the recently updated website, including the ever-popular Forum, the Events calendar and the Library.

Feel free to join us even if you are not yet a member of SENSE. The Zoom link will be provided to all registered attendees the day of the event, so be sure to register using the button at the top of the page.

We’re currently holding these sessions twice a year, so if you can’t attend this one, you’ll have another chance later this year. And for a review of a previous session, see Tomas Brogan’s blog post ‘Four things I learnt about SENSE as a new member’.