Auktorisoidun tulkin uudistettu tutkinto Norjassa

Norway has conducted National Interpreters’ Certification Exam since 1997. The exam is overseen by the national supervisory authority for interpreting, the Directorate of Integration and Diversity, IMDi, and provided by Oslo Metropolitan University. In 2022, IMDi tasked Oslo Metropolitan University with reforming the examination and enhancing its administration. A central objective of the reform was to ensure a demanding and consistent assessment of certified interpreters’ competence for the needs of the public sector, inter alia by digitizing the screening test. Pursuant to this mandate, Oslo Metropolitan University has redesigned both test components of the examination: the screening test and the interpreting test. The reconfigured examination has been administered twice—first in 2024 for sign language interpreters and subsequently in 2025 for spoken-language interpreters in five language pairs. This article briefly outlines the background to the reform, the Norwegian legislation governing public service interpreting, and the theoretical underpinnings of the new examination. The primary emphasis, however, is on presenting the examination’s format and content.