With the support of NIHAnkara, AEGEE-Ankara (European Students Forum Ankara Branch) has successfully organized a summer camp on sustainable living between the dates 17 August – 1 September 2009. During the event, 40 Students from all over Europe came together and had chance to learn more about sustainability from different perspectives, ecological footprint, consumption habits, sustainable communities, non-violent communication, recylcling, reducing and reusing. Apart from theory, ...

After having a very fruitful debate at NIHAnkara’s Green Breakfast Session on 10th of June, NIHA has been very engaged in writing a project with a focus on geothermal energy potential in Center Anatolia Region. Striving for academic cooperation between the Netherlands & Turkey, NIHAnkara conducted several meetings with Bozok University in order to identify the educational needs of the region. Related meetings were also conducted with Şakir Şimşek (Hacettepe University),...

The project “Developing Foreign Policy on Energy Issues” will be held by NIHA between 28 September and 01 October 2009, in Ankara. The project, designed as four-day training with energy experts from both academia and industry aims to undertake energy policies, one of the most important foreign policy issues. Incorporating various different perceptions, the relationship between energy and foreign policy is a current debate. Furthermore, parallel to changes in the global political...

Consultations with professionals from academia, the civil society sector and government officials revealed a demand for greater concentration of conflict management expertise in Turkey. After these introductory meetings, NIHAnkara is happy to announce that the first activity of the Conflict Management Project will take place in the beginning of November.  MA and PhD students as well as young practitioners are welcome to join for a series of brief lectures on conflict management and a...

We present the first phase of a multi-annual project that seeks to develop, implement and evaluate an ECD(Early Childhood Development) diploma course for ‘mid-career’ professionals in Turkey  and who work to the benefit of young children. The group comprises people employed at ministries and local education departments, NGOs, teachers, teacher training institutions and researchers, but also reporters, correspondents, media personnel, writers and illustrators. The Convention of the...

NIHA Vocational Training Coordination Office that was opened on June 12th 2009, has kick-started its activities with the final meeting of the ‘Transfer of Innovation within Vocational  English Language Training’ project which will be held on 15th October 2009. The project participants are Colorez (Netherlands), Bornova Girl’s Vocational School teachers (İzmir) and NIHA Vocational Education Coordination Centre staff.  You can check our web site for further information...

WORLDSKILLS 2009 – CALGARY WorldSkills, aimed at promoting, through the cooperative actions of Members, a worldwide awareness of the essential contribution that skills and high standards of competence make to the achievement of economic success and individual fulfilment, has been realized between 1-7 of September in Canada. The six skill categories included Creative Arts & Fashion, Information& Communication Technology, Manufacturing & Engineering Technology,...

As in previous years, Nuffic and NiHA will organize the Dutch participation to the IEFT in close cooperation. Both organizations will share the general Study in Holland booth at the fair. Besides supporting the generic promotion of Dutch higher education institutions at the IEFT, NiHA offers an additional program between 19-23 October 2009, the NIHA – Roadshow. Within the NIHA – Roadshow Dutch institutions will be visiting Turkish higher education institutions where academic lectures ...