“I highly appreciate your long professional career in translation science and your studies into its history. Your knowledge and excellent feel for language, your skills as an educator and education strategist have given rise to distinguished study programmes at Ventspils University, raised the quality of education at the national level, helped shape a skilled and talented new generation of translators,” President of Latvia Egils Levits said in presenting the Certificate of Merit to Jānis Sīlis.
Published: 22.07.2020.
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On 22 July at Riga Castle President of Latvia Egils Levits presented a Certificate of Merit to Dr. philol. Jānis Sīlis, Professor at the Faculty of Translation Studies of the Ventspils University of Applied Sciences, for his important contribution in the development of linguistics and translation in Latvia.