26/01/2015
Istanbul Policy Center (IPC) at Sabancı University in partnership with the European Academy Berlin (EAB) would like to announce the dialogue project Likeminds – German-Turkish Junior Expert Initiative, a project supported by the Robert Bosch Foundation. Following four exceptional years of exciting topics and discussions, the Likeminds – German-Turkish Expert Initiative is going into its fourth year of operations under the title “Energy: Fuel for Economies, States and Societies.”
We would like to invite you to apply for our program and/or to spread the news among your professional and/or private networks and refer interested individuals to our program. We have attached the announcement with a short description of the program for this purpose.
“Likeminds” is a bilateral exchange and dialogue program between Germany and Turkey. It aims to connect young professionals and invites them to participate in issue-focused discussions, connecting them professionally as well as personally.
“Likeminds” hopes to serve as an exchange program and a platform geared towards future leaders in Turkey and Germany respectively and aims at creating a dialogue for better understanding and future cooperation beyond the span of the program.
“Likeminds” consists of three components: a preparatory workshop, held simultaneously in Turkey and Germany, followed by two tours d’horizon in which the participants visit both countries. At the workshop, participants will choose different aspects of the year’s focus topic to be elaborated during the program year. At the tours d’horizon, they get the opportunity to discuss their chosen issues with German and Turkish leading experts from politics, economy, academia, and media. We would like to particularly invite those individuals to apply, who have not necessarily had a focus on Germany previously.
Under this years’ topic “Energy: Fuel for Economies, States and Societies,” we hope to discuss and discover the mobilization of likeminded people, in which people get together and make something happen – a way in which social movements function everywhere in the world. Whether it is social questions, ecological challenges, human rights or anti‐discrimination topics – Germans, just like people in Turkey, regularly pick up on these topics, making their concerns visible to public attention and campaigning for social change.
We would like to invite you to apply for our new program and/or circulate our announcements to individuals that you find suitable for the program. Please click here for the application form. The deadline for applications is 1 February 2015.
For questions, please get in touch with Melike Ayşe Kocacık, Program Assistant at 90 2164839000/3144 or makocacik@sabanciuniv.edu