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	Academy President Prof. Yucel Kanpolat called attention to the problems of children in Kyoto Prof. Dr. Yücel Kanpolat participated as a speaker in the sixth annual meeting of the Science and Technology in Society (STS) Forum, held between 4-6 October 2009. The STS Forum is held traditionally every year in Kyoto (Japan), in October. Prof. Kanpolat gave his speech on the first day of the Forum, in the session on “Science and Engineering Education”.
	The Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) Convened the Young Outstanding Scientists at Zonguldak Karaelmas University The Young Scientists Award Programme (GEBIP) of TÜBA was launched in 2001. Every year TÜBA organizes a meeting open to the public, with the participation of the past and present awardees of this Programme which is a kind of Young Academy. This meeting is held every year at a different university in Turkey.
	ALLEA Standing Committee on Science and Ethics Convened in İstanbul ALLEA (All European Academies) Standing Committee on Science and Ethics which convened in İstanbul on 23-24 May 2008, was hosted by the Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA).
	TUBA Held an International Science Ethics Symposium The Science Ethics Committee of the Turkish Academy of Sciences held an International Symposium on Science and Ethics on 14-15 December 2007 in Istanbul. The Symposium comprised five sessions entitled "Science and Ethics", "Global Warming and Environmental Ethics", "Bioethics", "Research Ethics and Legal Problems" and "Responsibilities of Academies on Issues of Ethics"…
	Turkey's Open Courseware Consortium Gained Life TÜBA initiated efforts for the signing of a protocol between 24 universities, the Higher Education Council and TÜBA for the online sharing of university course material in Turkish. This Project was started by the MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology) in the year 2000 and it was rapidly adopted not only in the US, but many other countries like China, Japan, France, the Netherlands, Vietnam, Thailand, India and Spanish speaking countries...
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