Thursday, May 08, 2014

On 3 April 2014, in the margins of the annual spring meeting of Schools’ Directors, the Council of Europe and Mr Osman Kavala, Director of Anadolu Kültür in Istanbul, signed a Partnership Agreement officially establishing a European School of Politics in Turkey and thereby becoming the 20th member of the Council of Europe Schools of Political Studies Network.
The School aims to offer high–quality training to new generations of political leaders in Turkey with a view to fostering dialogue amongst young politicians on major public policies, strengthening leadership skills, encouraging exchange of know–how and stimulating co– operation. The School intends to work closely with Bogazici University of Istanbul and will organise its first seminar in May of this year.
The first school of political studies was founded in Moscow in 1992. The Schools’ Network now covers the whole of Eastern and South-Eastern Europe, the countries of the Visegrád Group, the Caucasus and the Southern Mediterranean region.