Within the context of EU Thursday Seminars, NIHA organized a seminar by Prof. Dr. Selda Önderoğlu (Bologna Expert, Hacettepe University) on: “Bologna Process and Turkish Higher Education” on 20 January 2011. As an important platform established to create the European Higher Education area, the Bologna Process has important effects on Turkey-EU relations with regards to developing higher education policies. Especially after being an EU candidate, Turkey is on its way to adjust EU norms in...

NIHA organised a seminar by Lily Sprangers (The Turkije Instituut) on: “Turkish and Dutch Bilateral Relations from Political and Economical Perspectives” on 21 March 2011. The seminar specifically focused on general Dutch public opinion on Turkey’s EU Membership. From a historical perspective, considering the upcoming celebrations for the 400 year diplomatic relations, and from a present day perspective, considering the vast labour migration from Turkey to the Netherlands in the past...

NIHA organised a one-day training on: “ International Negotiation Techniques “ on March 11th, given by Paul Meerts, Advisor at the Clingendael Institute. The profiles of the participants varied from students to professionals. The seminar addressed the complexities of multilateral negotiations. The interactive session mainly focused on the different methods of negotiating through determining and examining types of conflicts and handling modes such as “Distributive Bargaining, Integrative...

This spring, NIHA and NIT have had intensive contact with NUFFIC. In March, the coordinator of the Study in Holland Desk in Turkey attended the annual conference of NUFFIC, which this year focussed on the added value of multilingualism to higher education. The annual conference incorporated the meeting of the Dutch institutes abroad. This session consisted of three short presentations by René Vermeulen – Secretary Dutch Scientific Institutes Abroad, Funda Demir – coordinator of the...

NIHA Vocational Education Co-ordination Center Coordinator Nurcan Taşer has visited Dutch partners between 03 – 23 March 2011. As part of the visit, she has met with 13 different vocational schools in the Netherlands and has made arrangements with Dutch partners for various visits in the fall and winter of 2011, LDV projects and internship studies in 2012. Following the visit to the Netherlands, NIHA Vocational Education Co-ordination Center together with Kenwerk, the Dutch Centre of ...

As  in 2010 NIHA  and the Babayan Culture House organised the study trip of the Executive Change Management (ECM) Master course of the interuniversitary SIOO institute in Utrecht. SIOO is a leading educational institution in the field of management and change. SIOO’s board is presided by the Rector of the University of Amsterdam. Other board members are appointed by Nyenrode management University, the technical universities from Twente and Delft, Utrecht University, Tilburg University,...

The recruitment of internship places and interns belongs to the core business of NIHA. Internships help students with personal development which they will need in the future. Besides existing internship possibilities, since December 2011 we have added new possibilities to our portfolio. A range of new internship positions are at the following organisations: Pine Bay Holiday Resort Hotel, Kuşadası- Aydın European Care Network, Ankara Akdeniz University, Antalya NABSO, İzmir Dedeman Hotel,...

Deputy Governors from all  81 regions of Turkey and public servants from EUSG took part in a series of trainings in Maastricht in the MATRA project. The trainings were organised with the cooperation of the Royal Netherlands Embassy in Ankara/MATRA programme, EU Secretariat General (EUSG), the European Institute of Public Administration in Maastricht (EIPA) and NIHA. In the framework of the project, hundred and three members of the Turkish government had the possibility to attend a series of...

MEMO TR is an outcome of the Early Childhood Development (ECD) program coordinated by NIHA which aims to provide mid-career professionals with up-to-date knowledge and expertise about a wide range of children’s issues. The idea of Memorable Moments is to bring performing arts into the own familiar surroundings of very young children. MEMO encourages their development playfully, widens up their world and enriches their daily lives. The ultimate aim of MEMO is to provide magical...