British Council is supporting the 18th International Short Film Festival with 10 short films this year. About 200 short films from 25 countries, in fiction, animation, experimental, documentary, screened in various international film festivals will be shown in the French, Italian, German Cultural Centres and at the Istanbul Modern Art Museum’s cinema hall between 23-29 March.

Audiences in Turkey, the UK and Greece will be linked up over video conference for a discussion of the scientific issues raisedby wind energy.

The conference is part of Cafe Scientifique, a stimulating forum for the discussion of thought-provoking scientific issues through video conferencing.

We are trying to promote active citizenship among a group of Hacettepe University students through a model called Public Achievement.  Public Achievement is a model that recognises the creative capacity of individuals of all ages to actively participate in the civic life of their communities and in the building of a more just, peaceful, democratic and pluralist society. This is done by supporting small groups of young people - and adult volunteer `coaches` who work with them - in addressing issues that are important and around which they design, carry out and evaluate their own projects. In the process, they learn skills of active citizenship and democracy.

In this weekend`s activity we will bring two coaches from Northern Ireland to share their experiences with their counterparts here in Turkey. We assume the coaches from both countries will learn from each others` experiences and devise new aproaches to be used in their public achievement work. We also assume there will be cooperative work in the future.

Within the frame of the Cultural Management Programme, European Cultural Association will be hosting in cooperation with British Council  Philip Spedding, from Arts & Business UK, one of the biggest establishments of Europe on building relations between the arts and business worlds.

Presentation of certificates to Teacher Development Course and Trainer Trainers Course participants.

British Council supported speakers at ELT conference.

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3 Films 3 Months 3 Minutes British Council Digital Video Film Competition winners are:

We will be visiting Edirne, identified as the pilot city for a project called "Inclusion of Disadvantaged Children in Education", to analyse the problems the primary schools there face when dealing with disadvantaged pupils.

The General Director and the Deputy General Director of Primary Education, the local project consultant, experts from the ministry, local representatives of the relevant governmental organisations, local NGOs, families and students will be attending a half-day workshop following visits to the primary schools in Edirne. We will also have the UK consultants Mr. Adrian Marsh and Ms. Judy Bohan, who have extensive experience in Haringey Borough, London UK, within the field of education of disadvantaged children.

In line with the results of this visit, the project consultants will adopt the "Professional Development Package" which has been successfuly implemented in the UK in terms of the inclusion of disadvantaged children in education.

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