In the past few months ago, especially in the tourism and catering sector in Turkey, a major problem existed in the placement of interns from, for example the Netherlands. Hotel owners and managers, catering establishments and employers from some other sectors claimed that the laws obliged them to request the so-called SGK- the Turkish social insurance number, from foreign interns.   Following a number of meetings and an official exchange of letters between NIHA and the necessary...

Amongst others, by the efforts of NIHA, the education cooperation between Turkey and the Netherlands in healthcare, within vocational as well as higher education, is increasing. The cooperation includes LDV-exchange programmes in the areas of study ranging from radiology (radiologist assistants), through to nursing and physical therapy. It is expected that the exchange of students and interns will also increase. That applies not only to vocational schools, universities of applied ...

During the last period, NIHA continued to give further direction to its priority area “Sustainability and Green Sector”. One of the initiatives that have arisen is the “Sustainable Campus”-initiative. The Sustainable Campus-concept entails that a university campus should function in as much a sustainable manner as possible, while providing breeding ground for new sustainability initiatives and increasing awareness among the campus’ “inhabitants” (i.e. university staff,...

As an important step in the renewed efforts to promote the Dutch language in Turkey, a literary evening was organised on 9 November at NIHA in cooperation with the Embassy of Belgium and the Dutch Embassy. The evening consisted of a reading in Dutch by Annelies VERBEKE of an extract from her book of short stories Groener Gras – Komşunun Tavuğu Komşuya …, and the Turkish translation by the translator Kevser CANBOLAT, followed by an informal conversation between Annelies Verbeke, ...

NIHA, together with Sardes Educational Services (www.sardes.eu) and International Child Development Initiatives, ICD (www.icdi.nl), two Netherlands-based organisations with international experience and scope of action for the well-being of children, is organising a diploma course on ‘Early Childhood Development’. The course will be given by specialists from The Netherlands and Turkey and will consist of some fifteen ‘face-to-face’ working days, stretching out over ten months (5...

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Turkish National Team selection round in the area of “Fashion Technology” has taken place in between 10 – 12 December 2009, with the participation of 25 guest students from the Netherlands and 12 finishing schools (Olgunlaşma Enstitüsü). The event has been organised by Skills Turkey, Skills Netherlands, NIHA and General Directorate of Vocational Education for Girls (Kız Teknik Öğretim Genel Müdürlüğü) at Merinos Atatürk Culture and Convention Centre in Bursa....

The second NIHA-Roadshow took place between 19 and 23 October 2009. In contrast to the broad set-up of the previous year, this time a more specific and faculty oriented approach has been chosen. The advantage which this approach offered was the fact that the Dutch participants could hold joint-meetings with their Turkish counterparts on several Turkish campuses. The announcements of the lectures were made more directly and thus much more efficiently, which resulted in better student...