ANTS website

Hi! Welcome to the ANTS website !

My name is axel and I’m the Project Manager of ANTS.

I have been working in the field of Simultaneous Interpretation for Social Movements since 2009, when I co-founded with other 3 people the pioneer project COATI (based in Barcelona, Cataluña, Spain).

Putting together the experience of 14 years participating in the events of different social movements, ANTS project started around summer 2023, when I moved back to my birth city Turin, North-West of Italy, officially registering ANTS in Italy at around march 2024.

Despite more than a decade working in the field, the ANTS project is relatively young, so as you can understand the website is still under construction. I will fill it with information and posts about the events we participate and the work we do in the time to come !

Please do not hesitate to write us an e-mail for information on the project!

You can also request a quote for your event, in-person or online

We can read emails in English, French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian and German while we’re able to answer in English, Spanish and Italian.

We will try to answer you promptly !

Have a good navigation in the ANTS world 😉 !

ANTS confirmed for Entretantos and Red de Municipios por la AgroecologĂ­a event about Food Systems and their impact on the Climate, Barcelona, 12 December 2024

We are happy to announce a confirmed event with Entretantos and Red de Municipios por la AgroecologĂ­a in Barcelona, about the Food Systems and their impact on Climate, happening the 12th December 2024 in CC Cotxeres Sants.

We’ll be providing Simultaneous Interpretation between Catalan and Castellano, with the necessary technology as well as coordinating the Interpreters, for 1 room with about 40 people.

Thanks to Entretantos and Red de Municipios por la AgroecologĂ­a !

ANTS confirmed for Arche Noah online webinar on Seeds Patents, 19 December 2024

We are very happy to announce that we’ve been confirmed for another webinar with Arche Noah about Seeds Patents, happening on December 19th 2024. Duration of the webinar will be 2 hours.

We’ll be providing Simultaneous Interpretation from and into FR, EN and DE.

The event is organized by Arche Noah, an organization based in Austria working on cultivated biodiversity and the topic to be discussed will be the Impact of Seeds Patents on Farmers. It is not a public webinar, but has the target group of people working in farmers’ movements and NGOs working on patents/GMOs/agriculture policy in Europe.

” Patents on plants and seeds have always been controversial, linked to the advent of biotechnology and its increased use in agriculture. In contrast to plant breeders’ rights, plant patents cannot be confined to a single variety as a rule of thumb, and thus cover multiple varieties. 

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The webinar will start by taking stock of existing patents in agriculture, examining what types of patents are granted (“patentability”) and the prerogatives that are attached to them (“scope of protection”). “

ANTS confirmed for WEAll online workshop, 12th and 26th November 2024

We are very happy to announce that we’ve bee confirmed to coordinate Simultanoues Interpretation for 2 online workshops happening on November 12th and 26th.

The workshops are organized by WEAll and will be about the Future Generations and Governance of the Commons Economic initiatives, respectively.

We’ll be having PTbr <> EN in the main room as well as in one breakout room.

It’s the first time we collaborate with WEAll after sometime we’ve been in contact with each other, so I can say that we’re very exited about it!

ANTS confirmed for Online Workshop on EU Seed Marketing Reform, 17-18 October 2024, with ArcheNoah, Let’s Liberate Diversity, The Geneva Academy

We announce that we have been confirmed for Interpreters Coordination for the “Online Workshop on EU Seed Marketing Reform”, organized by the Austria based Arche-Noa, the Geneva Academy of International Humanitarian Law and Human Rights, with the support of EC-LLD, happening online the 17th and 18th of October 2024.

The aim of this activity is to support the involvement of small organizations and grassroots movements in the policy-making process regarding seed policy and legislation. This workshop aims at building their capacity and awareness on the ongoing process of seed marketing reform, which will have a great impact on biodiversity and seed exchange in Europe and beyond.

The workshop will last 4 hours both on the 17th and the 18th, and we will be providing Simultaneous Interpretation Coordination for 2 Booths, FR and DE, with an English Pivot.

ANTS @ SĂšme ta Resistance, Antibes (France), 3-5 October 2024

Our participation it’s been recently confirmed, so we’re very honored and happy to participate in this amazing conference !

The International Farmer Seeds Gathering “Sow your Resistance” is organized by the French
Farmer Seed Network
, SOL Alternatives AgroĂ©cologiques et Solidaires, the Maralpine Community Seed Bank and Let’s Liberate Diversity.

The event will be composed of workshops and plenary sessions in Antibes (France).

These sessions will address the technical, environmental, social, political, and legal aspects of farmer seeds.

The week will culminate in a festive day dedicated to raising public awareness about the vital connection between agriculture and our food systems, underscoring the importance of cultivated biodiversity.

You can find more information on the event here.

Specifically, we will be in charge of coordinating the Team of 16 Interpreters leading up and during the event, and of setting up the Interpreting Technology:

5 languages (FR-EN-IT-ES-AR) 4 booths in the Plenary Room at Espaces du Fort Carré

2 languages (FR-EN) 1 booth in 1 Workshop room in Espace du Fort Carré

3 languages (FR-EN-ES) 2 booths in 1 Room in CREPS

2 languages (FR-EN) 1 booth in 1 Workshop room in CREPS

3 languages (FR-EN-ES) 2 booths in 2 Rooms in Campus Vert d’Azur, the Amphiteater and Workshop 1.

You can have a look here below at the Call for Interpreters

We thanks a lot the organizers of this amazing gathering!

Can’t wait to be there !

ANTS @ Anti Mega-Bassines, Melle (Poitou, France), 16-21 July 2024

We announce that we have been confirmed for the gathering in Poitou, the International Water Village for the defense of Water and Soils, that will be the preparation of massive days of actions the 19th and 20th July 2024.

So we will do our part by setting up the Interpreting Technologies during the camp that will be held in Melle, Poitou (France) for the mobilization against the Mega-Bassines to be held from 16th to 21st of July 2024.

We will be setting up the Plenary Space, with 4 cabins and 5 languages (FR-DE-ES-IT-EN) for the many thousand of people expected !

Can’t wait to be there !

ANTS Interpreters Coordination and Database

With this post, I would like to tell you about our Interpreters Coordination Project.

When I started working in Simultaneous Interpretation in 2009, we were a small collective participating in international conferences and events with our DIY technology, providing support for Simultaneous Interpretation.

The years passed by and I had the possibility of meeting hundreds of Professional Interpreters (but also many DIY Interpreters – as we call them), so back in 2019 I started recollecting all those contacts in a database, which now counts more than 1000 Interpreters (at the moment, July 2024, it counts up to 1082, to be precise 🙂 ) living mostly in Europe but in other continents as well. Considering that I mostly work with local and international Social Movements, I can only say that I’m really proud of my database, as I probably manage one of the biggest Interpreters Databases in the world.

But it’s not only that I have a lot of contacts: this list allows me to reach Professional Interpreters that lives in the city where you’re planning your event, or pretty close-by, thus reducing the travel cost and possibly the accommodation cost for your team of Interpreters!

With this database, we are also able to coordinate Interpreters for online events, with the right language combination needed by the participants and with the right skills to provide always the best interpretation.

If you’re organizing an event that requires Simultaneous Interpretation, don’t hesitate to ask us for a quote for Interpreters Coordination: we will organize the team of Interpreters for your event ensuring that the messages will be delivered in other languages in the best professional way!


If you’re an Interpreter and would like to join my Interpreters Database, please write me an e-mail with your data, language combination, place of residence, professional level and description of your skills, and a CV, if you want. Please be very honest on the description of your skill and your professional level: we both gain from an honest review of your skills! There is space for different levels and skills in my database, both if you are a Professional Interpreter with 20 years of experience, a language student still studying or just come out of school, or a DIY Interpreter: different events requires different people!

And I will surely look forward to be working together 🙂

ConfĂ©rence Ban Fossil Ads – 22-24 mars Ă  Bruxelles

from: https://antipub.org/bfa-2024-bruxelles/

Du 22 au 24 mars, environ 70 personnes, issues de la lutte contre le systÚme publicitaire et la promotion des énergies fossiles, se sont réunies à Bruxelles pour la deuxiÚme édition de la conférence Ban Fossil Ads (interdire les publicités pro-énergies fossiles).

An article in English: https://subvertisers-international.net/2024/01/fighting-fossil-advertising-join-our-strategy-conference-in-brussels-on-22-24-march-2024/

Un articolo in Italiano: https://valori.it/pubblicita-fonti-fossili/

Photo de groupe pendant la conférence Ban Fossil Ads à Bruxelles en mars 2024, dans les locaux de Namahn.
Photo de groupe pendant la conférence Ban Fossil Ads à Bruxelles en mars 2024, dans les locaux de Namahn.

Venu·e·s de France, de Belgique, d’Allemagne, des Pays-Bas, du Royaume-Uni, d’Autriche, de Suisse, du Danemark, du Portugal, d’Italie ou encore du Canada et de l’Australie, les participant·e·s ont eu l’opportunitĂ© de s’inspirer mutuellement de leurs luttes locales et nationales, d’effectuer des ateliers thĂ©oriques et pratiques, et d’envisager comment porter plus loin les revendications de ces mouvements contestataires. Ce mĂ©lange culturel a Ă©tĂ© permis en grande partie grĂące Ă  la prĂ©sence d’interprĂštes du collectif ANTS (AlterNative Technology Systems).

InterprÚtes et matériel du collectif de traduction ANTS, conférence Ban Fossil Ads, Bruxelles, 2024.
InterprÚtes et matériel du collectif de traduction ANTS.
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