Nevsehir Governorship is the decision-maker for all policies in the city including   education policies and their  implementation in the province.The city is located at a distance of 290 km (180 mi) from the capital Ankara, and is within the historical region of Cappadocia where more than 3 million tourist from all over the world visit every year.Surrounded by the hills, fairy chimneys and the majestic ruins of ancient civilizations, Nevşehir  offers a unique opportunity to live in one of the most fascinating regions in the world. The city  frequently offers nature walks and organises several social and cultural activities. Morever, it offers scenic bike-rides, hot-balloon tours and the starry skies.
In the process of our country’s accession to the E.U., according to Governor’s Office directive dated 03.03.2005 and numbered 217; the establishment of EU Projects and Foreign Affairs Center, to run on the basis of cooperation, communication and coordination was approved and it was put into effect throughout Nevsehir
 
It made out the following three points:
-To establish the necessary infrastructure,
-To prepare the City’s citizens for the E.U. citizenship,
-To make sure the citizens understand the process and implementations demanded by the E.U. which are binding for all E.U. member states.

The governance concept to be implemented through the accession process is seen as a social transformation project. It requires for the involvement of local authorities, NGOs, public organizations and institutions.

The main objectives of EU Projects and Foreign Affairs Center of NEvsehir Governorship;

-To be in constant communication and information exchange with the E.U. organs and to investigate the ways and methods to gain maximum benefits from the positive developments during the candidacy period.
-To give directions to the present and commencing work agenda concerning the E.U. by identifying priorities for Nevsehir
-To set up a Documentation Center covering the E.U. organizational and operational matters in order to provide information which would be beneficial to public organizations, NGOs, Universities, media, private sector and citizens.
-To make and implement different kind of projects.
-To take part in various EU programs
- In order to do concurrent similar work as the Department of Foreign Relations and EU Coordination which is the main unit of the Ministry of the Interior – Foreign Relations and the EU Coordination Centre in our city will be set up.

Telšių švietimo centras (Telsiai Education Centre) is the only accredited training institution in the area, providing high-quality educational services as well as psychological and special pedagogical assistance enabling the Telsiai community development and lifelong learning also providing assistance the teachers to solve parent's and children's problems.
Mission of the institution:
1. Meeting the teachers and other members of the community training and educational needs of lifelong learning;
2. Developing and implementing the adult contemporary competencies development programs and the learning enviroments as well as the learning organization culture;
3. Promoting the need for continuous learning;
4. Providing the educational institutions and community members with the timely and effective psychological and special pedagogical assistance to enable them to develop, to overcome challenges, to eliminate barriers discouraging the development and integration into society.
Role in the project:
Contribution creating a learner-friendly environment, communicating with project partners via phone, e-mail, carrying out and participating in workshops/events, taking part in the exchange of experiences, contributing to the producing the project documentation, educational curriculum and toolbox.
The institution is responsible for integrating the project into local and regional work, taking part in evaluation, dissemination, providing information to the national teaching community and producing learners' diaries.
People from vulnerable social groups, e.g. older learners, unemployed, people with few or no formal qualifications and individuals living in rural areas will be actively involved in the local activities of the project.
 

The Parents' Association is composed of a group of parents, who are voluntarily organised in bodies that try to look after the interests of students and families of the Comandante Conceição e Silva school. This task is only possible if all are "hand in hand" with the entire educational community of the school, students, families, teachers and the surrounding community.
The mission of the Parent’s Association is to increase communication and participation of parents and guardians in the school, therefore they started the initiative to distribute a newsletter to parents, teachers and students, in which are presented the activities done so far as well as activities they intend to implement.
The Parents Association is an independent body, which although not directly influence the pedagogical aspects of the educational process of the students of Comandante Conceição e Silva School has the autonomy to identify needs and propose strategies to improve educational conditions, establish partnerships to address situations that compromise the performance education of the students, and to promote initiatives that enhance the enjoyment of being in school and the taste for learning.
Within this context of partnerships, the Association of Parents and School Director, are implementing the "To Give Project" (collecting food, groceries, which will be distributed by needing families of students attending the school) and started to work on the process to put a cover on one of the school's playing fields.
Another initiative is the participation on this Grundtvig Learning Partnership which will allow not only for improvements in methods used for learning a second language and the educational conditions for students, but also allowing the parents to learn, to be in the student role.

Permanent Event Calendar

Whether you are a kindergarten, a school or an adult training center, or whether you just start your one man company or you are a big enterprise:

celebrate your achievements, open days and trial courses the right day!

The Media will be grateful for your contribution.

And people will listen more carefully to what you have to share.

In brief: contact the media in time and get your products ready.

Before or during the Christmas or summer holidays it's a good time for publishing such information.

There is a lot of free material at iTongue to supports your start-up and your PR activities.

You are allowed using them when indicating the source (the web link)

You are not allowed to charge any fees when using free iTongue material!

And here a preview for your start as a Leisure Language Learning provider:

This calendar values in particular world observances with future concerns rather than remembrance days.

January 

20th        World Day of Social Justice: announce free download offers or a free download day for the benefit of people in need of language learning support (refugees, migrants) and address companies to support this campaign with their money and name as a donor

February

21st         International Mother Language Day (UNESCO) and as well as Tourist Guide World Day: announce “iTongue: plug & speak. Learn languages as easy as you learned your mother tongue and become a tourist that conquers the world!”

March

1st          World Compliment Day:
1) Reward you pupils with compliments; if it is not for their achievements, then look for other things to express your appreciation (attitude, skills, appearance etc.)
2) Give each pupil a list with all their names and ask them to write a compliment behind each name (if you then take the time to collect for each pupil all the compliments he/she received from the group, and you then give their own collection to each of them, see what happens…!)

3) Allow the media to reward you with compliments for your achievements and products.

6th          European Day of Speech and Language Therapy: where people have difficulties with their own language, why not supporting them with the latest and most successful means for foreign languages! Get in touch with speech therapists. Ask what the most current problems are. Create repetitive rhythm and rime patterns around such syllables and add some music. The brain needs repetition and reward hormones in order to learn correctly. In traditional teaching the need for repetition is rather not experienced as a reward. Rhythm, rime and music emit reward hormones! By help of these means Tongue seduces people to repeat.  

April

2nd          Children Book International Day: announce your CD or DVD and picture book for early language learning or alphabetization.

7th          World Health Day (WHO): announce “Stop giving children a headache for their school marks: Support their health! Respect their brain! Go biking while music places school subjects in a rewarding way in your head! Humans are the learning species with a brain made for learning by pleasure!”

22nd     Earth Day: let’s embrace the earth and talk to each other! The earth’s future depends on respectful cooperation. And respectful cooperation depends on personal understanding. And understanding depends on language: talk! Talk to others! Talk in their language!

(See also comments on 24th September, International World Information Day for Developmental Issues) 

May 

15th       International Day of Families: inform people: “Instead of endangering your family peace by school mark threads, go for fun with your children: watch entertaining videos while crucial school topics and foreign languages settle together in your brain. Go for a bike ride or sunbathing while music seduces your brain to learn. See also 1st June international children’s day.

21st         International Day for Cultural Development: Cultural development depends on welfare. Welfare in Europe increasingly depends on the creation and invention of new market sectors, new products and new jobs for the postindustrial learning and leisure society. Here it is, the Leisure Language Learning tool: iTongue links writers, translators, teachers, consultants, electronic technicians, designers, speakers, actors and musicians to create language without borders. A new generation of paralinguistic digital tools for foreign language learning joined with art-items, game-methods and key competence training: Scientific knowledge about the learning process synthesized with electronic means of mobile learning programs.

Organize intercultural events, introductory workshops, presentations etc. together with media and other local players.

(See also comments on 24th September, International World Information Day for Developmental Issues)

25th        Solidarity week with all those who are fighting for freedom, independence and Human Rights (UNO co memorandum day): publish free downloads and youtube clips of iTongue decoded songs and poems as a means for mutual understanding, communication and language learning all in one.   

June

1st           International Children’s Day: see suggestions at 2nd April children’s Book day and 15th May family day. You may organize an event (children language learning workshops for different age groups such as physiolinguistics and iTongue language decoded films) if possible together with other institutions or a company.

3rd         European Bicycle Day:  publish something in the media like “Ride your bike becoming clever: what about putting your vocabulary book away, plugging music to your head, biking away in the sun and the wind and knowing your vocabulary tonight anyway? Here is your try:…. (download free iTongue LLLs )”. You may also organize a local public “biking-without-borders” tour: people book in advance in order to receive free iTongue Leisure-Language-Learning Apps as well as the map and description of the tour. At the end of the tour you provide microphones and organize an exchange about the experience made with learning language skills while biking, and you invite the media.

20th       World Refugee Day (UN) : See 20th January World Day of Social Justice; and 25th May UNO co memorandum Solidarity week with all those who are fighting for freedom, independence and Human Rights

21st         Fête de la Musique, a music festival which began in France 1982 and is now held around the world. Ethnical differences may separate nations. Music unites. Different musical characteristics are appealing. Music makes at ease with everything, especially with learning. Do an iTongue presentation: Musical Language Learning. (See also 1st October World Music Day)

And here your tourist holiday offers:

July

11th         World Citizens Day (UN): no world citizens without language competence!

30th         International Day of Friendship (UN): no international friendships without language competence!

August

12th         International Youth Day (UN):  no international youth contacts without language competence!

September

5th           International Headache Day : see also7th  April, World Health Day (WHO) “Stop giving children a headache”

8th           World Alphabetization Day (UN):  see free English alphabetization set at iTongue. Download, inform via the media, organize free workshops.

15th       International Day for Educational Freedom and Democracy: see also 21st May International Day for Cultural Development, language education as a vital base for freedom and democracy in global times. (See also 24th September, International World Information Day for Developmental Issues)

19th        International Talk-Like-a-Pirate-Day: introduce to your pupils casual expressions and sentences used for communication with close friends.

26th       European Day of Languages: this is THE iTongue Day!
               Use it for any of the above or below suggested promotional activities that fit with your institution.

27th       World Tourism Day, (UN and UNWTO): see also 21st  February, Tourist Guide World Day: “iTongue: plug & speak. Learn languages as easy as you learned your mother tongue and conquers the world!”

October

1st         World Music Day (UNESCO): Since scientists discovered that music is the most efficient way to provide us with reward hormones and that our entire existence, immune system, digestion, reproduction, cell regeneration, mental well being, performance and learning all depend on reward hormones, music now has become the currency of a new postindustrial age! We do sport with music, we walk with music, we relax with music, and we have dinner with music. Music is an energy provider! Music has become a new gold mine! And we certainly shouldn’t miss music when working or learning! Music seduces your ear to learn by itself, no swotting anymore: that’s iTongue!  See also 21st June Fête de la Musique.

5th          World Teachers' Day (UNESCO) aims to mobilize support for teachers and to ensure that the needs of future generations will be met by teachers. Therefore: contact schools!

17th        International day for the eradication of poverty (UN): see below 24th October Developmental Issues

24th      World Information Day for Developmental Issues (UN): Automation has reached a level where factories “grow” uncountable products, almost like plants used to grow by themselves from the ground. Work has disappeared! In order to recreate work, where work has disappeared thanks to automation, obsolenscence now programs shorter and shorter lives for all products: the manic production of rubbish! This is in fact what really threatens the planet. That is why we are already consuming within decades the resources of eons for production and transport of rubbish that piles as a new kind of sedimentary rocks competing with the coal rafts and the Jurassic Strata of the earth’s crust. Either we now earn our living by obsolescence (the rapid destruction of our automatically “grown” products). Or we relax on our balcony with an equipment that is working for a life time (like the first light bulb that is still working!) and we realize that paradise on earth has come true: we can now dedicate ourselves fully to the development of skills, art and knowledge, which are the immaterial market sectors of the leisure and learning society in the electronic age: iTongue!

 (See also 21st May International Day for Cultural Development).

27th         Audio Visual Heritage Day (UNESCO): tell the public that you are adding a new all-in-one item to the audio-visual future heritage that provides, pleasure, leisure, learning and achieving.

30th         World Saving Day : ask you local bank for funding and in return you provide them with a nice musical clip that talks about saving a lot of money by learning languages fast and without effort. And decode for this clip your language convincingly with for example English.

November

10th        World Science Day for Peace and Development (See also 21st May International Day for Cultural Development, 24th September, International World Information Day for Developmental Issues)

12th         Grandparents day (started in the US): Invite grannies and grandpas with their grandchildren to your cream-tea-party and give them a good treat with all the entertaining alphabetization and language material you have

16th           International Day for Tolerance

17th          International Student’s Day                    

20th          Universal Children’s Day    

20th          Africa Industrialization Day

December

8th          International Children's Day of Broadcasting (Unicef)  Promote electronic tools for schoolchildren. But don’t forget to emphasize on the fact that for under 5 year olds, electronic means have the opposite effect, find information here.  link with www.iTongue.eu/about/not-under-age-5/

10th        Human Rights Day    

18th        International Migrants Day (UN)

20th        International Human Solidarity Day (UN)

International events without specific date:

European Culture Days:  The aim is to highlight that culture is the foundation for the “European house”. There is much more at steak than people used to think in terms of Europe and in terms of language communication! Europe stands for the possibly most important achievement of humanity: the Human Rights! It also stands for environmental protection and peace worldwide! Foreign language competence is an indispensable base for a functioning Europe! Organize events in cooperation with other local institutions and companies, offer free trial workshops, free downloads, ask for an information stool at other local events. (in Karlsruhe, Germany End of April – beginning of May)

EU-Project days in schools: one a year schools are invited to raise awareness for European Issues by organizing the respective events, activities and initiatives. Offer to them a workshop on decoded language learning. Without language competences no Europe!

For more information about the above dates, just google them.

More world observances you can find here                  

More Days for environmental issues you can find here