About EL-Translations: 25 years of language services

Since 2001

EL-Translations was founded in 2001 in Paris and has been headquartered in Athens since 2006. Today it works in 140+ languages, with three ISO certifications, NATO supplier status and its own translation school.

Our journey

2,000+
corporate clients since 2001: 140+
languages: 25+
years in language services: 4.9/5
from 271 Google reviews

Our journey

From Paris in 2001 to today.

15 milestones in 25+ years.

2001: The beginning
Founding of the company in Paris.
2006: Headquarters in Athens
Relocation of the headquarters to Athens and consolidation in the Greek market.
2007: EL-Academy
Creation of EL-Academy, the company's translation school, to train professionals in the market.
2011: Student placements
Work placements begin for translation students of the Ionian University and of the French Language and Literature department of the University of Athens.
2012: Exporters Association and NET WEEK
Membership of the Panhellenic Exporters Association. In November, Eleni Zisi interprets the interview of Bernard-Henri Lévy for the NET WEEK programme of ERT, Greek public television.
2014: Lifelong Learning Centre
Certified by the Greek Ministry of Education and EOPPEP as a Lifelong Learning Centre for the training of translators and interpreters. Membership of the Arab-Hellenic Chamber of Commerce and Development.
2015: First certification
Certification of our services to the European standard EN 15038:2006.
2016: First with ISO 17100
The first Greek translation company certified to the international standard ISO 17100:2015, which replaced EN 15038.
2017: NATO supplier
Selected as official translation supplier to NATO, for projects with heightened security and confidentiality requirements.
2018: Entrepreneurship award and SEKPY
Sustainable, Innovative and Responsible Entrepreneurship Award from the Athens Chamber of Tradesmen, and membership of SEKPY, the Hellenic Association of Defence Equipment Manufacturers. In December, SKAI TV features the company in Nikos Ypofantis's programme «Ready Business».
Chamber announcement (on the Athens Chamber site, in Greek) (opens in a new tab)Award video on YouTube (opens in a new tab)SKAI, “Ready Business” (video on YouTube, in Greek) (opens in a new tab)
2019: University and accessibility
Start of teaching Translation Project Management at the Ionian University. With syNNergy, we take on the subtitling for the deaf and hard of hearing of the weekly programme of ESAmeA, the National Confederation of Disabled People.
2020: TOLES Legal
Recognition as an accredited TOLES Legal examination centre.
2023: ELIA and the University of Athens
Membership of ELIA, the European association of companies in the sector. From March, teaching «Practice in Translation» in the inter-university master's programme of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
2024: Two new certifications
ISO 18587:2017 for post-editing of machine translation, and ISO 29993 for the learning services of EL-Academy.
2026: Translation Made Human
Artificial intelligence for speed, a human for accuracy: the philosophy we work with today.

Method

How we work

01A project manager for every assignment
One person follows the project from quote to delivery.
02Translation and revision by two professionals
As ISO 17100 requires: the reviser is a different person from the translator.
03Machine translation with human post-editing
Where the client asks for it, post-editing follows ISO 18587.
04A network of vetted translators
In 140+ languages, with the specialisation each project needs: legal, medical, technical, financial.