Keynotes & Special Addresses

Deal Colleagues,

Almost every message of mine is related to the 11th Convention, isn't it? It is apparently clear what keeps me busy for months... Next to sorrows, we witness happy events also. This is the essence of life. Last time I had commemorated Dearest Mrs. Silva and now I might mention about the engagement ceremony of my daughter. We should be grateful to god for sending us not only bad ones.

I would like to mention about the developments concerning the 11th International Convention. This summer passes by very hot in Istanbul. In spite of this difficulty we have a wonderful team focusing on every detail of the event. My colleagues who are seen in the photo are challenging to the unbearable hot days of July and trying to do the best for our honorary guests who will come from more than ten countries. The fun and animation part of the organization is under the control of our young friend Tayfun Bırakoğlu & his wonderful team belonging to the Club LectureHouse of Yeditepe University. Other two friends are the most hardworking teachers of Kalbemer; Nilüfer and Mehmet. I would like to thank to all my team members who work hard to make this event meaningful for ther participants. It is a real Turkish İmece! :)
During the convention there will be three main types of activity:

1. Circles and competitions,
2. Four different Workshops and

3. Our keynote speakers.

Except the first one, all the presenters are clear now. They are as follows.

* Our most honorary special guests are:

- Mr. Jagdish Gandhi (President, WCTQEE and founder Manager, CMS, Lucknow, India),

- Prof.Dr. John Jay Bonstingl (President, Bonstingl Leadership & International Center for Schools of Quality; Honorary President & Founder of Turkish Center for Schools of Quality )

- Prof.Dr. Syed W. Ali (Advisor, John Hopkins University, USA)

- Dr. Vineeta Kamran (Executive Director, WCTQEE; Founder Principal CMS & Degree College, Lucknow, India)

- Mr. P.C. Bihari (Executive Director, WCTQEE & CMS, Lucknow, India)

- Ms. Leslie Janoe (Janoe Associations, USA)

- Prof.Dr. Mary Stuart, Vice Rector (Kingston University)
- Mr. Paresh Kathrani (International Human Rights Law at Kingston Law School)

- Mr. Chris Ford (Kingston College, UK)

- Ms. Hilary Hunt (Council for Education in World Citizenship, UK)

- Mr. Andreas Plozenke Director General (Quality Consultant, Germany)

- Mr. Abdul Wahid Mir (Director General, Pakistan)

- Prof.Dr. Dinesh Chapagain (DG, WCTQEE, Nepal)

- Mr. İbrahim Demirer (EARGED, Ministry of National Education, Turkey)

- Prof.Dr. Nilüfer Eğrican (Yeditepe University, Vice Rector, Turkey)

- Prof. Dr. Ayşe Akyel (Yeditepe University, Director, Institute of Educational Sciences & Head of Foreign languages Department of Educational Faculty, Turkey)

- Prof.Dr. Ali Baykal (Boğaziçi University, Dean,Turkey)

- Prof. Dr. Özden Ekmekçi (Ex-Director, YADİM, Çukurova University)

- Prof.Dr. Kemal Kocabaş (President, YKKED & Dokuz Eylül University)

- Prof.Dr. Oğuz Makal (Honorary President, YKKED & Beykent University)

- Prof.Dr. Ümit Davaslıgil (Head, Gifted Children dept., Fac. of Education, Istanbul University) - - Prof. Dr. Selçuk Erez (President, The Foundation of Birth Control and Family Health, Istanbul)
I would like to remind you of the registration forms once more. You have very limited time to get the chance of catching this great event in Istanbul. Please visit; www.hayalkoksal.com/en/convention and fill in the Form. The deadline to be a listening participant is 20th August.
With love and peace...

Hayal KÖKSAL

Convener

Our Great Loss: "Nelum De Silva"

Dear All,
I have learned with a great sorrow that our lovely, always-smiling and motivating, dearest sister Nelum passed away yesterday morning.

She was an angel sent to hug all the humanity. She had such a big heart for all of us!
We, as the Turkish family of her, share the pain of this great loss with her lovely family and all her close friends. Our prayers will be for De Silva family. I am sure she had taken her place in Heaven. I hope God provide strength and courage to her family to overcome this great loss.
As the Convenor of the 11th ICSQCC, I propose giving a new “Award” within the ICSQCC to her name.
Best regards,

Dr.Hayal KÖKSAL

Convenor, 11th ICSQCC

Good Wishes from Colleagues

Dear All,
As the 11th Convention gets nearer, motivating mails like the above one makes us happy and proudful. THANK YOU!
For the latest news, please visit our Convention web page:
http://www.hayalkoksal.com/en/convention
Sincerely yours,
Hayal KÖKSAL

Recent News from KalbeMer

My dear colleagues,

Today I will share some recent news with you. As you know we have an ICT based İmece Circles Project, named : ICT Seagulls. We have just completed its 5th year. 37 project teams belonging to university, high school, primary school and NGO categories completed their project processes and placed their steps on their web addresses. Those web addresses first of all evaluated by us_Kalbe mer_ then by the peers and then by the judges. 10 different criteria were used for it. Now we know that 13 teams got "2nd Best Award"s and 24 of the "1st Best Awards". The awards of those teams will be given during the Award Ceremony of the 11th ICSQCC. They will also have had the chance of participating in different Streams of the above mentioned event. If you would like to learn more about them, please visit: http://www.bilisimcimartilar.com/ address. The page is in Turkish but do not step back! Please enter: "Değerlendirme (Assessment & Results)" from the Main menu and then enter all categories one by one. For all the project web pages have also had English powerpoint presentations to inform you about their projects.

Our registration process still goes on for the 11th ICSQCC. The final date for sending abstract and registration form is 20th July. You must send the final info regarding bed and journey and full papers by the 8th August. Online registration is possible through; http://www.hayalkoksal.com/en/convention. The photos show you some happy moments from the last Convention meeting at Yeditepe University_ the venue with my dearest team.

Within the Convention; we will have keynote talks, Streams and also 3 workshops. They will be realized by;

1- Prof.Dr. Syed W. Ali (Space Sciences Technology)

2- Hilary Hunt (Peace and Democracy education)

3- Chris Ford (Leadership).

I hope we will be together soon. Up to now, we have had registrations from 13 countries. We have been looking forward to other countries as well. For, this is a very special gathering for the future and peace of the world. :)

By the way, as being the convenor of the 15th Annual Meeting of Human Dignity and Humiliation Studies inm 2010, I want you to focus on the following link as well. I must congratulate those Dosts who have just completed a very successful peace event in norway. Loves from Istanbul to Evelin and her wonderful team...

http://humiliationstudies.org/publications/newsletter11.php#messagesnetwork

Loves and hugs from Istanbul.

Hayal KÖKSAL (Ph.D.)