Works of the highest quality were received for each of the two awards, the International Award for Outstanding Achievement in Theoretical/ Fundamental Research in the Field of Terminology, and the International Award for Applied Terminology Research and Development.
The winners were announced at the close of the 4th Terminology Summit on 8th October , the former award to Mme. Carine Abi-Ghanem for her seminal research thesis on development of terminology in the field of genetic engineering on the Arabic language, and the latter to Igor Kudashev and Irina Kudasheva and their editors, Inkeri Vehmas-Lehto and Aleksandr Gerd, for their Finnish-Russian Forestry Dictionary. (http://www.eaft-aet.net/prix-de-terminologie/terminology-awards-2008/)