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au travers de lignes budgétaires individualisées

English translation: via individual budget lines

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French term or phrase:au travers de lignes budgétaires individualisées
English translation:via individual budget lines
Entered by: philgoddard

08:39 Jul 6, 2012
French to English translations [PRO]
Bus/Financial - Finance (general) / university institute's budget
French term or phrase: au travers de lignes budgétaires individualisées
I see that the glossary has 'budget lines' but I'd rather phrase this in plain English - not sure what it actually means, though! 'via individual budget lines' seems pretty meaningless to me. This is the preface to a university research institute's 'rapport d'activités':

La politique de l’Institut se caractérise aujourd’hui par cinq points forts :
1. La mutualisation des ressources en consacrant 70% du budget à la logistique de recherche et à l’encouragement de la mobilité des chercheurs, les 30% restants étant distribués aux promoteurs **au travers de lignes budgétaires individualisées**;

'promoteurs' presumably refers to PhD supervisors.
MoiraB
France
Local time: 02:53
via individual budget lines
Explanation:
A budget line is an individual item in a budget, such as payroll or vehicle expenses. In this case, each "promoteur" (and I'm not sure what that means without more context - in clinical research it means "sponsor"), is allocated a budget line.

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Note added at 8 hrs (2012-07-06 16:44:20 GMT)
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As Moira points out, Wolf's references support my answer, not his.
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philgoddard
United States
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Despite saying in my question that this solution was pretty meaningless to me, I'm awarding the points to Phil. I'd have preferred to get some feedback from the end client but simply ran out of time. So this is more or less what I opted for (under individual/separate budget headings), though I did suggest Wolf's alternative rendering to the client, as it seems plausible to me (so I won't add this to the glossary). Thanks to both of you!
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Summary of answers provided
4 +1via individual budget lines
philgoddard
3 +1through various/separate (funding) program(me)s
Wolf Draeger


  

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3 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 3/5Answerer confidence 3/5 peer agreement (net): +1
through various/separate (funding) program(me)s


Explanation:
On the basis that *ligne* refers here to a program, a channel through which a particular policy can be implemented and funds allocated/spent.

*Budgétaire* simply indicates that funds will be spent or allocated.

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Note added at 3 hrs (2012-07-06 11:48:22 GMT)
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Just thought that "funding mechanisms" might also work here, or even "funding channels".

http://fr.welcomeurope.com/glossaire-subventions-europeennes...
http://www.europarl.europa.eu/sides/getDoc.do?pubRef=-//EP//...

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Note added at 4 hrs (2012-07-06 12:45:58 GMT)
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Hi Moira, I hadn't checked the EN webpage translations... hmmm, I wonder if they may be somewhat inaccurate? The FR contexts seem to me to indicate a program, channel or mechanism of sorts. I'm not sure one can use "budget line" in same sense as "credit line". Perhaps "budget line" is an example of inappropriate calquing?

Example sentence(s):
  • ...with the remaining 30% allocated to Phd supervisors through various (funding) programs.
Wolf Draeger
South Africa
Local time: 02:53
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 18
Notes to answerer
Asker: Yet confusingly, your two refs refer to ligne budgétaire as budget line or budget heading on the EN pages.


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agree  Philippa Smith
2 hrs
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8 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
via individual budget lines


Explanation:
A budget line is an individual item in a budget, such as payroll or vehicle expenses. In this case, each "promoteur" (and I'm not sure what that means without more context - in clinical research it means "sponsor"), is allocated a budget line.

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Note added at 8 hrs (2012-07-06 16:44:20 GMT)
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As Moira points out, Wolf's references support my answer, not his.

Example sentence(s):
  • Furthermore, budget lines for programmes that do not show tangible effectiveness have been cut
  • A budget line contains information about how much of a resource is needed. The information in a budget line can include a unit of measure and amounts for quantity, raw cost, burdened cost, and/or revenue.

    Reference: http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/1...
    Reference: http://docs.oracle.com/cd/A60725_05/html/comnls/us/pa/enterb...
philgoddard
United States
Specializes in field
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 253
Grading comment
Despite saying in my question that this solution was pretty meaningless to me, I'm awarding the points to Phil. I'd have preferred to get some feedback from the end client but simply ran out of time. So this is more or less what I opted for (under individual/separate budget headings), though I did suggest Wolf's alternative rendering to the client, as it seems plausible to me (so I won't add this to the glossary). Thanks to both of you!

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agree  Just Opera: does what it says on the tin
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