Dear Sirs_

							Dear Sirs,

Konya Provincial National Education Directorate is a governmental organisation in
charge with the planning and coordination of all kinds of educational and training
activities from pre-school to secondary and adult education in Konya Province.

Our organization is responsible for all education and training including adult
education and training activities in central Konya and 31 districts of Konya. Details
of educational institutions are as follows;


                    DETAILS OF OUR EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

             School Types               Number Number of Number of
                                        of Schools Teachers Students
             Pre-School Educations      281           324     5 363
             Primary Schools            902         11 328   297 495
             General High Schools       99           1 960    42 801
             Vocational High Schools    111          2 050    19 224
             Apprentice Education       12            197     10 539
             Centres
             Public Education Centres   31            74         21 642
             TOTAL                      1250        18.050      420.250



       Our Directorate includes Personnel, Appointment, Examination Investigation
      and Evaluation, Culture, Education-Training and Student Affairs, Program
   Development, In-Service Training, EU Project Department, Computer and Test
Services, Pre-Primary Education, Special Education and Guidance, Physical Training
 Sports in School, Services for Teacher and Social Affairs, Scholarships and Lodging,
        Private Education Institutions, Health Affairs, Non-Formal Education,
     Apprenticeship and Vocational Technical Education, Research Planning and
Statistics, Budget Investment and Facilities, Education Materials and Tools, Archive
    and Administration Department, Civil Defence Services and Media and Public
Relations. The institution is responsible for teachers out of staff, students, primary
                                   and high schools.




Our vision; is to be a qualified, prominent institution that has reached the level to
compete equivalent institutions in Turkey and in modern countries with ensuring
authentic contribution to the development of Turkish National Education System by
providing effective usage of knowledge, skill, value and technology required for
Knowledge Era. Our mission; is to ensure to boost efficiency and productivity of
associated institutions and of employees and pleasure of worker and service fields;
to develop education-teaching process by following modern innovations and
advances, by carrying out researches; to improve and to implement laws and other
regulations through the general goals and fundamental principles of National
Education System in Konya Province. We hold a variety of in-service training
courses for our staff to enhance education quality of our city and to ensure to be
trained the students by the teachers that are innovators and follow modern
education-teaching methods very closely. We solve problems encountered in
education-teaching together with Municipality of Konya, Provincial Social Services
Directorate, Provincial Health Directorate and other local institutions We as
educators believe that it is our crucial duty to provide education to be intercultural
and fight against racism and xenophobia, to promote the prosperity and interest of
children with special education need sand improve family support they receive.


The European idea and intercultural learning are important elements of our
education and training life. Therefore we wish to establish contact to different
partners under the framework of the different EU projects.

By means of these projects, we would like to know each other and learn to work
together to achieve particular aims; enhance the European dimension of education
in our society promoting joint co-operation activities with organisations from
different European countries; to give pupils and teachers an opportunity to work
together; provide active participation of our students in international activities; to
help pupils and teachers to acquire and improve skills not only in the topic subject
area on which the project is focussed, but also in terms of teamwork, social
relations, planning and undertaking project activities ,give pupils and teachers the
opportunity to practice foreign languages and increase their motivation towards
language learning; broaden the horizons of students, parents, trainers and teachers
and extend their cultural competences.

If you have any Project ideas/proposals in these frames we would like to take part.
We are also open for other Project propsals and would like to take part as a
partner.


We await for your reply.

Best Regards

Mevlut AYDOGMUS
Projects Coordinator

Konya Provincial Directorate of National Education
Konya, Turkey
http://konya.meb.gov.tr/abweb/index.htm