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27/01/25

Report on the year 2024

Let's look back at tekom Europe's 2024: highlights, achievements, learning. Before we look back, though, we want to thank all our volunteers in the country organizations, working groups, and other initiatives for dedicating their time and expertise to organize events, share ideas and contribute to our tekom Europe community – you are great! We look forward to a successful new year together with you.

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27/01/25

Call for Experts: Contribute to Two tekom Europe Whitepapers

tekom Europe is seeking experts to collaborate on two upcoming whitepapers: • EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation 2024/1781 (ESPR) • EU Cyber Resilience Act 2024/2847 (CRA)

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27/01/25

Help Shape the Future of TecCOMFrame!

Since 2015, tekom Europe has been dedicated to advancing technical communication in higher education through the development of TecCOMFrame, as part of the Erasmus+ program. This competence framework has been an essential tool for promoting technical communication across Europe and beyond. Now, we need your insights to shape the future of TecCOMFrame!

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22/01/25

AI in Technical Communication – Trends and Latest Developments

Claudia Sistig, technical writer at Compart GmbH in Böblingen, has taken an in-depth look at the potential applications of AI in a professional context. In her presentation at the Best Practice Workshop for Technical Communication in Medical Technology, which took place on October 23, 2024, in Göttingen, she explained the most significant developments of recent months. The following article summarizes the main points of her presentation.

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13/01/25

Empowering Translators in the Age of AI: Shaping the Future of Language

What if we told you AI makes human translation more essential? AI and Machine Translation are transforming the language industry, but the future for translators remains bright! Discover why studying translation is still a smart choice in the age of AI and language technologies.

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25/11/24

tekom Europe Position Paper: EC Guide to application of the Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC, Edition 2.3

In this position paper, tekom Europe welcomes the fact that the guide opens up new perspectives for the digital provision of information for use. The paper also identifies a number of points that should be considered for the next update of the guide in order to provide even better support for the application of Machinery Directive 2006/42/EC.

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28/10/24

Understanding Cognitive Biases in Technical Communication

Dive into the key insights from the IUNTC talk by Prof. Quan Zhou (Metropolitan State University). This summary explores how cognitive biases—systematic thinking errors—affect users' interactions with instruction manuals. Using the RFACPR framework (Retainment, Focus, Association, Compatibility, Prospect, Relatedness), Dr. Zhou highlights how these biases influence information retention, attention, and decision-making, offering valuable takeaways for improving technical documentation.

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25/10/24

tekom Romania 15th Anniversary Conference

Around 60 people, tekom members, and interested TC professionals and students took part in the anniversary event of tekom Romania on October 25 in Cluj-Napoca.

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22/07/24

We are tekom - new e-mail domain

“We are tekom” is now also becoming a reality in our e-mail communication. Last weekend, we changed our mail domain from @tekom.de to @tekom.org for all employees of the office - regardless of whether they work for tekom Deutschland e.V., tekom Europe e.V. or tcworld GmbH. From Monday, July 22, you receive e-mails from the office from the address @tekom.org - no longer @tekom.de. Please change the data you have saved in your systems accordingly. If you overlook this, don't worry, nothing will be lost: a forwarding service has been set up for the old addresses.

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01/07/24

Recap Initiative Committee Meetings 2024

This year, the initiative committee members of the different country organizations have been holding regular IC meetings so that delegates and members of the initiative committee can exchange ideas and discuss the different issues that come up in the country organizations. In January, we discussed the annual plans of the country organizations. Various online and offline events were planned.

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