ini membership fees for junior interpreters

If you are a junior interpreter interested in placements or tests at international organisations, the following ini membership scheme applies:

financing ini

ini is a non-profit organisation, but it has to cover its costs, as it does not receive any funding from organisations. ini helps translators, editors and interpreters to improve their professional qualification and to get in touch with international organisations. ini searches, certifies, advises, trains, promotes and supervises candidates. From these tasks quite considerable costs arise. ini also strives for high levels of efficiency in its dealings with members. Therefore, the number of members must remain relatively low. To finance its work, ini is dependant on membership fees.

fees only in case of placements or tests at organisations:

50 Euros per month
The process of becoming an ini member itself is free of charge. ini membership fees have only to be paid from the moment when an organisation is telling an ini member that his/her application for a placement or for a test has been accepted.

From this moment, ini will help the candidate in an intensive way to prepare for the placement or test. ini can also help to find a cheap flight and an economic accomodation near the placement or test location. During the placement, ini members stay in touch with an ini contact person.

For ini members who have been accepted as trainees or test candidates by an international organisation, the membership fee is 50 Euros per month. This fee has to be paid proportionately (pro rata) every month till the moment when the traineeship ends or the test takes place.

Example: If an organisation tells an ini member at 15th of April that his/her
application is accepted and the traineeship lasts till 15th of August, membership fees have to be paid for the second half of April, for May, June, July and for the first half of August. So total fees of 200 Euros have to be paid for this period; as the traineeship ends on 15th of June, no fees have to be paid for the rest of June.

fees after placements or tests only in case of paid assignments:

50 or 150 Euros per month
Then membership fees have to be paid again for the months in which the candidate receives paid assignments. There are two different rates, 50 Euros and 150 Euros per month.

fee system in case of travel costs paid by the linguist
50 Euros per month have to be paid if a candidate earns by his/her ini assignments up to 1500 Euros and has to pay travel costs.

150 Euros per month have to be paid if a candidate earns by his/her ini assignments more than 1500 Euros and has to pay travel costs.

Example: If a linguist works for an organisation to which she has applied as ini member and earns 1350 Euros in June, while having to pay to travel, the membership fee for June is 50 Euros.

fee system in case of no travel costs
In case that the organisations pay travel costs, there is another rule:

50 Euros per month have to be paid if a candidate earns by his/her ini assignments up to 1000 Euros and does not have to pay travel costs.

150 Euros per month have to be paid if a candidate earns by his/her ini assignments more than 1000 Euros and does not have to pay travel costs.

Example: If, in the example above, travel costs are paid by the organisation, the interpreter who has earned 1350 Euros in June has to pay 150 Euros fees for this month.

This rule also applies when there are no travel costs: For example, if the linguist already lives in the city where the organisation is based, there will be no travel costs. Sometimes ini members may also
receive telecommuting ini translation or editing assignments; in this case, too, linguists do not have travel costs.

no fees for months when there are no assignments

ini members who have done a placement or test have to pay these fees
only in case that they receive paid assignments. If there is no assignment in a certain month, no fees have to be paid for this month.

membership for two years
ini members have to pay these fees for a period of two years for every month in which there is an assignment from an organisation to which they have applied as ini members. This period starts from the moment when there is the first paid assignment from such an organisation.

Example: If an ini member receives his first paid assignment in December 2009, then this member will have to pay fees for the months in which there will be assignments till December 2011.