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High level support for project to foster Europeaness in Turkey
Posted on 09/06/09
University of Leicester
High profile delegates from Turkey and across Europe attended an international symposium at U?ak University, Turkey, on 28th and 29th May 2009 to mark the final stages of a project run by the Universities of Leicester, U?ak, Dokuz Eyll and METU (Ankara) on Understanding Europeanness and Promoting European Citizenship in Turkey.
The projects aims are to develop an understanding of European citizenship and to identify the problems and challenges to education and teaching in a diverse cultural situation in the run-up to Turkey joining the European Union.
It has included student exchanges between the University of Leicester School of Education and partner universities in Turkey.
The symposium, which received widespread coverage in Turkish television and print news, opened with an address by the Turkish Minister of State for European Accession, Professor Dr. Mehmet Aydin and featured keynote speeches by Dr. Chris Wilkins, Director of Teacher Education, University of Leicester and Professor Dr. Adnan ?i?nan, Rector of the University of U?ak.
The symposium attracted a large number of papers from Turkish and Western European researchers in the areas of European Citizenship and Citizenship Education, with Leicester School of Education lecturers, Dr Hugh Busher and Dr Chris Wilkins, reporting on the research findings of the project itself.
The Leicester part of the project was organised by Dr. Tony Lawson and the Turkish contributions by Leicester graduate Dr Ismail Acun. Dr Lawson commented: The conference was very well-organised, with excellent translation services available and a team of U?ak Masters students to ensure its smooth running.
The Leicester delegates at the Symposium made many useful contacts and discussed further research into migratory communities and the effects of migration on schooling with Professor Dr. Canan Balkir, Jean Monnet Chair in European Integration at the University of Dokuz Eyll and Dr Acun from U?ak.
Plans to develop an international research project in this area will be developed when members present a paper on the current project to the European Conference of Educational Research in September.
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