T.R. GOVERNORSHIP OF

KOCAELI

EU PROJECTS COORDINATION CENTRE

Partner of PEETA Project

Presentation of the organization

Republic of Turkey

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REPUBLIC OF TURKEYREPUBLIC OF TURKEY

GOVERNORSHIP OF KOCAELİGOVERNORSHIP OF KOCAELİ

GOVERNORSHIP OF KOCAELİGOVERNORSHIP OF KOCAELİ

MottoYurtta Sulh, Cihanda SulhYurtta Sulh, Cihanda Sulh

Peace at Home, Peace in the WorldPeace at Home, Peace in the World

AnthemAnthemİstiklâl Marşı

The Anthem of Independence The Anthem of Independence

Capital Capital Ankara 39°55'48.00′N, 32°50′E

Largest city Largest city Istanbul Official languages Official languages Turkish

Demonym Turkish Government Government Parliamentary republic President President Abdullah Gül Prime Minister Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan Succession to theSuccession to the Ottoman Empire   War of Independence War of Independence May 19, , 1919   Formation of Parliament Formation of Parliament April 23, , 1920   Declaration of Republic Declaration of Republic October 29, , 1923  

Area     Total Total ………………………..783,562 km²    ……………………… ………………………..302,535 ..302,535 sq mi     Water ( (%)…………………1.3)…………………1.3

Population     2009 Census ………. 72,561,312 - 2009 Census ………. 72,561,312 - 

  Density ……………….. ………………..92.6 /km² 92.6 /km²  …………………….. 239.8 /sq mi …………………….. 239.8 /sq mi

GDP  (  (PPP)) 2009 estimate -  2009 estimate -  Total $880.061 billion  Total $880.061 billion    Per capita $12,476 $12,476   CurrencyCurrency Turkish LiraTurkish Lira Time zoneTime zone EET EET

(UTC+2) -(UTC+2) -  Summer Summer (DST) EEST  (UTC+3(DST) EEST  (UTC+3

izmit

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GOVERNORSHIPOF KOCAELİGOVERNORSHIPOF KOCAELİ

• NUT -1 Regions 12 • NUT- 2 Sub-regions 26 • NUT-2 Provinces 81

Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics( NUT)

for TURKEY

1. TR1: İstanbulTR10: İstanbul

2. TR2: Batı MarmaraTR21: Edirne, Kırklareli,TekirdağTR22: Balıkesir, Çanakkale

3. TR3: EgeTR31: İzmirTR32: Aydın, Denizli, MuğlaTR33: Afyon, Kütahya, Manisa, Uşak

4. TR4: Doğu MarmaraTR41: Bilecik, Bursa, Eskişehir

TR42: Bolu, Düzce, Kocaeli, Sakarya,

Yalova5. TR5: Batı Anadolu

TR51: AnkaraTR52: Karaman, Konya

6. TR6: AkdenizTR61: Antalya, Burdur, ısparta TR62: Adana, MersinTR63: Hatay, Kahramanmaraş, Osmaniye

7. TR7: Orta AnadoluTR71: Aksaray, Kırıkkale, Kırşehir, Niğde, NevşehirTR72: Kayseri, Sivas, Yozgat

8. TR8: Batı KaradenizTR81: Bartın, Karabük, ZonguldakTR82: Çankırı, Kastamonu, SinopTR83: Amasya, Çorum, Samsun, Tokat

9. TR9: Doğu KaradenizTR90: Artvin, Giresun, Gümüşhane, Ordu, Rize, Trabzon

10.TRA: Kuzeydoğu Anadolu TRA1: Bayburt, Erzincan, ErzurumTRA2: Ağrı, Ardahan, ığdır, Kars

11.TRB: Ortadoğu AnadoluTRB1: Bingöl, Elazığ, Malatya, TunceliTRB2: Bitlis, Hakkari, Muş, Van

12.TRC: Güneydoğu AnadoluTRC1: Adıyaman, Gaziantep, KilisTRC2: Diyarbakır, ŞanlıurfaTRC3: Batman, Mardin, Şırnak,Siirt

NUT NUT 1 : 121 : 12 REGIONREGIONNUT- 2 : 26 SUBREGION NUT- 2 : 26 SUBREGION NUT-3 : 81 PROVINCENUT-3 : 81 PROVINCE

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NUT- 2 : 26 SUB-REGIONNUT- 2 : 26 SUB-REGION

Governor, who is the head of provincial administration, is the representative of the government and the representative of each ministry. Governor is appointed by the recommendation of Ministry of Interior, by Cabinet Decision and by approval of President

A head of Executive branch of Kocaeli Province is the governor.He is in the charge of State Department ,The Police Headquarters, Military ,Directorate of National Education, Agencies, Boards, Commissions and CouncilsThe governor is also in charge of carrying out the state’s laws.

Governor:

In the case of a Province emergency, such as blizzard , flood, earthquake, it is the governor’s task to direct all of Kocaeli’s state agencies.

Each year, it is the Governor’s task to plan, prepare and implement Kocaeli province operating budget. This operating budget is the Governor’s request for the money the governor feels that it is necessary to run the state’s departments, commissions, agencies, and services for the coming year.

This budget is given by state which governs provinces from Ankara capital city of Turkey

The constitution also stipulates that the central administration oversee elected local councils in order to ensure the effective provision of local services and to safeguard the public interest.

The minister of interior is empowered to remove from office local administrators who are being investigated or prosecuted for offenses related to their duties.

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Vice Governor

Vice Governor

Deputy Governor

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State Bodies and institutionsUniversities Municipality

State Bodies and institutionsUniversities Municipality

Editorial Office Directorate Data Processing Centre Directorate of Planning and Coordinating Protocol, National Holiday’s Celebratory Ceremony Affairs EU projects coordination Centre Directorate of Police Department of ProvincePolice Discipline Committee Presidency of Province Gendarmerie Headquarters of ProvincePublic Relations Bureau of ProvinceGeneral Directorate of Highways Directorate of Emergency and Disaster Affairs Directorate for Local AuthoritiesDirectorate of Press and Public Relations

There are eight Deputy Governors in Kocaeli Province . State departments, agencies, council’s responsibilities are shared among them Under responsibility of Governor.

Presentation of the organization

Kocaeli EU Projects Coordination Center was founded in 2004 under responsibility of

Governorship of Kocaeli in order to accelerate Turkey’s accession and enable Kocaeli fully to get

benefit from EU education programs.The organization consists of 10 staff working and there are special staff working for the EU Projects of which the number

is eight.

We have four goals1-Provide independent, experienced with opportunities for full time project-based work through a no hassle, personal and pr0fessional process.

2-Provide beneficiaries with the broadest selection of appropriate resources for their specific projects, and use the best of these resources to complete the projects in an efficient, personalized, and cost effective manner

3-The overall objectives of Project coordination centre are to enhance the quality and reinforce the European dimension of education, in particular by encouraging transnational cooperation between institution, contributing to the improved Professional development of staff directly involved in education sector , and promoting the learning of languages and intercultural awareness .

4- Our aim is to promote the European dimension ad improve the quality of education by encouraging cooperation between the participating countries.

-Consultancy for EU projects and programmesInformation search,-Monitoring of projects at the location,-Matching of project and programmeT-o present the programmes such as LLP, youth and seventh research framework programme(FP7) through seminars, meeting and conferences, -To help the public and private institutions finding project partners,-Providing technical support for the projects in every issue and step,-Providing the coordination between the EU units within the public institutions, municipalities and universities,-To take part in various EU programmes and projects and prepare new and authentic projects.

Who we are;

“We offer a comprehensive support in EU projects from the idea to the successful conversion. We see ourselves as consultants, partners and aids from the first to the last second of project. By accomplishing the projects successfully we want to market the city of kocaeli on a European level.”

Universities, National Directorate of Education of Kocaeli province, Metropolitan Municipality,

NGO’s and all the other institutions hold in Kocaeli are under our main scope beside that we

are in contact with every kind of institutions which are directly involved in education. Our

centre provides consultancy services and information within the frame of Life Long

Learning Programs of EU, seventh research framework program (FP7), central finance &

contracts unit.

Other information

Previous experience The centre supported more than 180 projects in Kocaeli Province. Organized 3 Study Visits Organized the 1st Grundtvig In-Service Training Course in Turkey

Other information Previous experience is a partner of an LDV DOI project; FAIRstart

Budget : 297.165 Partners : Denmark (coord.) and 7 other

partners www.fairstart.netis a partner of Comenius Multilateral Network project SEEPBudget: 600.487Partners: Italy (coord.) and 15 other partnerswww.seepnetwork.eu

The main staff working for the projects and their duties

Duty Name-Surname

1-EU Coordinator of Province : Enver DÜZ

2- Project Expert : Sinan sarı

3- Project Expert : Serap özdemir

4- Project Expert : Burcu KAYA

4- Project Expert : Özlem AŞCI

5- Chief: Rahime DUYGULU

6- Date processing staff : Zeynep

Between the years 2005 – 2009, the number of the people who applied for information on EU Projects and have been provided guidance and aid in improving and implementing the project processes and given seminars and trainings is 12300 by EU Projects Coordination Centre.The number of people benefitted the services of our centre are as follows:The year 2005 - 400 personsThe year 2006 - 1700 personsThe year 2007 - 2300 personsThe year 2008 - 3500 personsThe year 2009 – 4300 persons-----------------------------Total : 12300 persons

In the context of DISSEMINATION OF EU;

THE RESULTS REACHED BY THE DISSEMINATION

THE NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES

(STAFF)

THE NUMBER OF BENEFICIARIES

(PUPILS)

LEONARDO DA VINCI (VET) 332 167

COMENIUS SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS 400 200

COMENIUS CONTACT SEMINARS 30

COMENIUS PREPARATORY VISITS 32

GRUNDTVIG CONTACT SEMINARS 27

IN SERVICE TRAINING 45

YOUTH 80

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1 Deputy Governor 2 Rector 5 Vice Rector 1 Dean 2 Vice Dean 29 Academicians 45 Directors, 20 Experts

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• PRINCIPLES REGULATING THE EDUCATION SYSTEM

The Turkish education system is organized on the basis of;

- Constitution of the Turkish Republic

- Laws Regulating Education and Instruction - Government Programs- Development Plans- National Education Councils

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Based on these factors, education principles have been

defined as follows; • - Education shall be national,

- Education shall be Republican,- Education shall be secular,- Education shall have a scientific foundation, - Education shall incorporate generality and equality,- Education shall be fuctional and modern

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EDUCATION LEVELNUMBER

OF SCHOOLS

TOTAL BOYS GIRLSNUMBER

OF TEACHERS

PRE-PRIMERY EDU. 18.539 550.146 286.349 263.797 20.910

PRIMARY SCHOOLS 34.990 10.673.935 5.615.591 5.058.344 389.859

SECONDARY SCHOOLS 7.435 3.258.254 1.855.741 1.402.513 185.317

GENERAL 3.406 2.075.617 1.123.459 952.158 102.581

VOCATIONAL 4.029 1.182.637 732.282 450.355 82.736

TOTAL OF FORMAL EDU. 60.964 14.482.335 7.757.681 6.724.654 596.086

NON-FORMAL EDU. 9.630 3.886.638 2.216.081 1.670.557 69.530

GENERAL TOTAL 70.594 18.368.973 9.973.762 8.395.211 665.616

NUMBER OF STUDENTS

FIGURES BY EDUCATION LEVEL IN THE SCHOLASTIC YEAR BETWEEN 2007-2008

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KOCAELİ PROVINCE 2011 ACADEMIC YEAR

NUMBER OF NUMBER OF SCHOOLSSCHOOLS

NUMBER OF NUMBER OF TEACHERSTEACHERS

NUMBER OF STUDENTSNUMBER OF STUDENTS

PRIMARY PRIMARY 366366 8.7238.723 206.330206.330

SECONDARY SECONDARY

( GENERAL )( GENERAL ) 8383 2.3342.334 44.14644.146

SECONDARYSECONDARY

( VOCATIONAL EDUCATION )( VOCATIONAL EDUCATION ) 6060 2.3542.354 47.54447.544

TOTALTOTAL 509509 13.41113.411 298.020298.020

Pre-school EducationPre-school Education Number of Number of classesclasses

Number of Number of TeachersTeachers

Number of Number of studentsstudents

615615 1.0671.067 22.85022.850

People partecipating in the project and contact

information

- Mr. Mustafa GÜNİ- Deputy GovernoreMail: kocaeliab@hotmail.comTel. +90 262 3234966

- Mr. Enver DÜZ, Director- EU Coordinator of Kocaeli Province

eMail: enverduz@hotmail.comTel. +90 530 6901463

-eMail: eukocaeli@hotmail.comTel. +90 262 3234966

Webpage: www.kocaeliab.gov.tr

www.kocaeliisep.gov.tr Enver DÜZ

EU Coordinator of Kocaeli Province(Provincial Director of social Studies and

Projects )

T.R. GOVERNORSHIP OF KOCAELİ

EU PROJECTS COORDINATION CENTRE

Thank you very much for your attention.