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Gazi University (www.gazi.edu.tr) is one of the few universities whose history dates back to 1920s. Right after the declaration of the Turkish Republic, Ataturk and his friends decided to establish an institute. This resulted in the establishment of the ‘Teacher Training Institute’ in 1926. In 1929 the institute was given the name ‘Gazi Teacher Training Institute’ and continued to educate students under this name for many years. In the Academic year 1949-1950 the institution was given the name ‘Gazi Institute of Education’.
Gazi University is very decisive and ambitious in fulfilling the requirements of the Bologna Process to which Turkey became a party in 2001. The university started bilateral cooperation on student and academic staff mobility immediately after receiving Erasmus University Charter in 2004. The university also exhibits a great interest on EU Life Long Learning Programme had the first place among Turkish universities as regards to projects supported by LdV Programme. In 2005, European Universities Association (EUA) membership of Gazi University became active.
Role:
GAZI will lead WP-2 Design of the “AGORA” e-Learning Environment together with CLARUS [EL]. It will actively take part in the valorisation of the project activities and results too. The other tasks of GAZI are; as for the specific tasks within this project, GAZI will to provide the national contact database, provide the country report and evaluation, provide the coordination for external and internal evaluation of the project results, and prepare the in-service training guide for target groups with the common perspective of the modular program and national exceptions. Furthermore, GAZI will bear; build a collaborative platform between Turkey and other partners. GAZI will help improvement of the university-industry- SME’s relationship in Turkey. On the other hand, the project will benefit from the strong background and scientific variety potential of the university.
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