British Council, the European Union Delegation to Turkey and the Turkish Economic and Social Studies Foundation jointly organised the 8th Bosphorus Conference on 21 – 22 October 2011 in Istanbul. The conference provided an off-the-record and friendly platform both for the European Union and Turkey representatives who came together to discuss recent issues and political developments. [Read More]
“Dünyayı değiştirebileceğini düşünecek kadar deli olanlar, aslında bunu başarabilenlerdir.” Bugünlerde okumaya başladığım Steve Jobs’un biografisi, Apple’ın reklam kampanyasından alınan bu cümleyle başlıyor. Türkiyedeki yarışmayı kazanmamla başlayıp, beni 19 ülkeden 25 çılgın girişimciyle bir araya getiren YCE etkinliği her yönüyle inanılmaz bir tecrübeydi. Final turunun son akşam yemeğinde, tüm katılımcılar dolu dolu bir haftanın mutluluğunu yansıtıyordu. [Read More]
On 19 October 2011, there was an atmosphere of a family get-together at the UN premises in Ankara where the British Council Turkey Office signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the UN System in Turkey in areas of common interest, i.e. youth, social inclusion, civil society development, public administration reform, knowledge management, and environment, climate [Read More]
“Gene regulatory networks” and “chemogenomics database” may not mean much to many, but these concepts lie at the heart of groundbreaking research on the invention of anti-cancer drugs. They also were some of the topics that stirred heated discussion among academics, researchers and some enthusiastic students in a workshop held by British Council Turkey recently. [Read More]
Did you know that everyone who registers to take the IELTS test with the British Council receives a FREE on-line prep course? This course is free only to British Council IELTS test takers. This course is prepared by the people who know the test best so I was surprised to learn that while candidates are [Read More]
As the two-day Bioinformatics for Anti-cancer Drug Discovery Workshop kicks off today, Chair Associate Professor Rengül Çetin Atalay answers our questions Renowned academics from Turkey and the UK are gathering today for a two-day workshop in Ankara’s Bilkent University. The subject is bioinformatics, a cross-disciplinary field bringing together information technologies, biology and medicine. The Bioinformatics [Read More]
On September 24th we celebrated the European Day of languages in Istanbul. Working with our European colleagues we put together a fun day in the Sismanoglio Megaro (Greek cultural centre) in Istanbul with dancing, games and quizzes. Most of the praise for organisation must go to the Sismanoglio Megaro who offered its beautiful 19th century [Read More]
