Commission announces the winners of the 2025 EU translation school contest

The European Commission has announced today the 27 winners, one for each EU country, from the 716 schools that took part in the EU school translation contest ‘Juvenes Translatores' for 17-year-olds.

[For Cyprus the winner is : Natalia Siakalli from Ayios Ioannis Lyceum, Limassol [Ναταλία Σιακαλλή – Λύκειο Αγίου Ιωάννη – Λεμεσός] – Cyprus – Winning translation 2025-2026 – EN-EL, while Christos Charalambous and Dorothea Andreou from the same Lyceum received a special mention.

This time, 3004 students tried their hand at translating a text between any two of the EU's 24 official languages. While English features prominently, the 155 language combinations chosen by students also included language pairs such as Bulgarian-Greek, Danish-Czech, Irish-Spanish and Croatian-Swedish. Official translators from the European Commission selected the winners, as well as the 186 students who received special mentions for their impressive work.

The award ceremony will take place on 27 March 2026. The 27 young translators, accompanied by their teachers and parents, will be shown how European Commission translators work on a daily basis. This visit will serve also as an EU meeting point for them to meet each other, get to know how the European Union works for them.

Funded by the Erasmus+ programme, the Juvenes Translatores contest has been organised by the Commission's Directorate-General for Translation every year since 2007, to promote translation and multilingualism. This contest has been a life-changing experience for many of its participants and winners. Some have decided to study translation at university, and some have joined the Commission's translation department as trainees or full-time translators or interpreters.