{"id":5372359,"date":"2025-10-30T11:05:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T10:05:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/?p=5372359"},"modified":"2025-10-30T14:36:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T13:36:26","slug":"termcat-40-year-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/termcat-40-year-history\/","title":{"rendered":"UZEI took part in the 40th anniversary celebrations of TERMCAT, reaffirming a key alliance for terminology"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>The director of UZEI, Imanol Urbieta, attended the commemorative event held in Barcelona, which brought together more than 200 guests at the Palau de Pedralbes to celebrate four decades of work in the service of the Catalan language.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Yesterday, TERMCAT, Centre de Terminologia, held a moving ceremony to commemorate its <strong>40-year history<\/strong>. The event, which took place at the emblematic <strong>Palau de Pedralbes<\/strong> in Barcelona, was attended by the director of UZEI Terminologia eta Lexikografia Zentroa, <strong>Imanol Urbieta<\/strong>, highlighting the close collaboration between the two institutions.<\/p>\n<p>The event began with a live recording of the podcast \u201cParaules habitables\u201d, hosted by <strong>Anna Murgadas<\/strong>. The highlight was an interview with the director of TERMCAT, <strong>Jordi Bover<\/strong>, and the director of the Institut d\u2019Estudis Catalans, Teresa Cabr\u00e9, who reviewed the most important milestones of the past 40 years and emphasized the fundamental role of terminology as a tool for accompanying social change.<\/p>\n<p>This was followed by a live interview with the Minister for Language Policy, <strong>F. Xavier Vila i Moreno<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The nearly 200 guests at the event were also able to visit the exhibition <strong>\u201cQuaranta anys acompanyant canvis socials a trav\u00e9s dels termes\u201d <\/strong>(Forty years accompanying social change through terms), which took them on a journey through the centre&#8217;s history and social impact.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A 40-year history<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Termcat was founded in 1985 and, although other terminology centres had already been created by then, it soon became one of the world&#8217;s leading terminology organisations.<\/p>\n<p>Over the decades, the partnership between UZEI and Termcat has proved highly fruitful and valuable in tackling shared challenges. For instance, the sharing of knowledge and resources has allowed both organisations to make the most of their resources.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Timeline<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/em><strong>1970<\/strong> Banque de terminologie du Qu\u00e9bec (BTQ)<br \/>\n<strong>1971<\/strong> Infoterm (International Information Centre for Terminology)<br \/>\n<strong>1975<\/strong> Eurodicautom (European Commission)<br \/>\n<strong>1976<\/strong> Termium (TERMInologie Universit\u00e9 de Montr\u00e9al)<br \/>\n<strong>1976<\/strong> Nordterm<br \/>\n<strong>1977<\/strong> UZEI (<strong>formally 1978<\/strong>)<br \/>\n<strong>1985<\/strong> Termcat \/ Cercaterm<br \/>\n<strong>1986<\/strong> Euskalterm<br \/>\n<strong>1988<\/strong> TermNet<br \/>\n<strong>1993<\/strong> Realiter<br \/>\n<strong>1995<\/strong> ELRA Language Resources Association<br \/>\n<strong>1996<\/strong> EAFT (European Association for Terminology)<\/p>\n<p><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Termcat40-05-scaled.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-5372379\" src=\"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Termcat40-05-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1107\" height=\"739\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Termcat40-05-scaled.jpg 2560w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Termcat40-05-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Termcat40-05-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Termcat40-05-600x400.jpg 600w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Termcat40-05-718x479.jpg 718w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Termcat40-05-294x196.jpg 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1107px) 100vw, 1107px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-5372352 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ETXEPARE_logo_RGB.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ETXEPARE_logo_RGB.png 1472w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ETXEPARE_logo_RGB-300x110.png 300w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ETXEPARE_logo_RGB-1024x376.png 1024w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ETXEPARE_logo_RGB-600x220.png 600w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ETXEPARE_logo_RGB-1306x479.png 1306w, https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/ETXEPARE_logo_RGB-294x108.png 294w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\"><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@UZEI_\"><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@UZEI_\"><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"UZEI took part in the 40th anniversary celebrations of TERMCAT\"><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"TERMCATek giro hunkigarrian ospatu zuen atzo 40 urteko ibilbidea.\"><br \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/termcat40-.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The director of UZEI, Imanol Urbieta, attended the commemorative event held in Barcelona, which brought together more than 200 guests at the Palau de Pedralbes to celebrate four decades of work in the service of the Catalan language. Yesterday, TERMCAT, Centre de Terminologia, held a moving ceremony to commemorate its 40-year history. The event, which&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5372363,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5372359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5372359"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5372377,"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5372359\/revisions\/5372377"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5372363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5372359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5372359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/uzei.eus\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5372359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}