We're The Maritime Vocational Secondary School is one of the 22 Marine Education of Secondary Schools in Turkey. Our school is in Gelibolu ( Gallipoli ) – Çanakkale - Turkey. It is situated along the coast of the Dardanelles, near the historical village of Gelibolu (Gallipoli).We are located in the Europen part of Turkey. There are 3 departments at our school. These are Ship Engine, Ship Building and Ship Deck. There are 248 students totaly and  13 are girls. They are aged 13 – 17.  There are 22 teachers, 10 Vocational / Technical teachers and 12 culturel subject teachers. We have 2 buildings close to the pine trees with a beatiful bosphorus view. One is culturel subjects and headoffice building and the other one is workshop building in order to practise our students in.Our school is for four years. After graduation, students may attend to a two-year high school in their departments.

We have two school projects related to the Center Of European Unions Education and Youth Programmes and both were accepted by our National Agency. One is a Comenius School project called " The influence of cultural environment on the development of a young person –  a citizen of a native country and the EU’ and this three-year project was prepared by the organization of a school in Poland and with nine different countries including our school from Turkey. The second project is called "Safety Training For Future Sailors". This three-week Leonardo Da Vinci vocational project is targeting to take a course in Germany consisting of 21 students and 3 teachers from our shool. Our LDV project was approved by Tukish national Agency thus 21 students and 3 teachears from our school will go to Germany / Gelshenkirshen to carry out this project between 16 November and 06 December 2008. Our Comenius project will be enrolled in Greece in November 2008. We're wide open to take part in any projects of any countries all around the world which will make us move further, cause we believe that the big earth will be narrowed as we share more and more. Our students and stuff are very excited to continue both these two projects.

Gelibolu is  a town and a district of Çanakkale Province, Turkey, located on the Gallipoli peninsula in the European part of Turkey. Gelibolu is well-known for sardine canning. The Battle of Gallipoli took place at Gallipoli from April 1915 to December 1915 during the First World War. A joint Imperial British and French operation was mounted to capture the Ottoman capital of Istanbul and provide a secure sea route for military and agricultural trade with the Russians. The attempt failed, with heavy casualties on both sides.
Battle of Gallipoli.

In Turkey, the campaign is known as the Çanakkale Savaşları, after the province of Çanakkale. In the United Kingdom, it is called the Dardanelles Campaign or Gallipoli. In France it is called Les Dardanelles. In Australia, New Zealand and Newfoundland it is known as the Gallipoli Campaign or simply as Gallipoli.

OUR COMENIUS SCHOOL PROJECT

"The influence of cultural environment on the development of a young person –  a citizen of a native country and the EU"

At first I want to thank to Miss. Malgorzata- an english teacher in Poland. Because she worked hard and arranged a great project which will enlighten the participants, their schools and their countries. Of course all other participants have worked a lot to take role in this multi collective project. So we are quite exciting to meet them in the first meeting in Greece.

Every nation is a community of people connected by  family and culture.The family has a great input in creating an identity of a young person, his/her system of values and it motivates them to participate in cultural events. One of the motives of uniting the European countries is crossing the national boundaries not forgetting national identities.
It is possible thanks to meeting people from other countries and knowing their culture.
The project ‘ The influence of cultural environment on the development of a young person – a citizen of a native country and the EU “ includes the following subjects:
1.Family environment: the youth get to know the structure of a family, system of values, traditions, celebrations, ways of spending free time in partnership countries. The project aims at grammar school students, who will have their own families soon. The acquired experience and information gained from the comparison of different models of families they can use in their own life.
2. The local environment: young people will get information about local institutions supporting the development of young people and they will get to know their offers concerning the development of interests and talents in partnership countries.
Students participating in the project will have a chance to know the influence of local culture and European culture on the development of young people.

As Maritime School, we worked a lot to carry out this Comenius school project, we set up a group consists of four teachers and eight students in order to start to the preparation of an introduction of our school and Gelibolu. Our first meeting with the partners will be held in Greece in November. Our school is starting education on 8th of September. We have provided the needed wherewithals and we are ready. The first meeting is clear now. All the participants met in Kato Achaia Patras, Greece between
09 / 16 November under the great efforts of Panagiotis. That was great to meet with teachers and students from nine different countries. Our second appoinment station was Turkey by Lewent.
25 teachers and 35 students were here in Gelibolu / Turkey to carry out our project. Our 3rd station was Portugal and of course Portugal meeting was wonderful by the preparations of Cesar. And we will be in Italy in September.

FIRST MEETING IN GREECE

SECOND MEETING IN TURKEY

THIRD MEETING IN PORTUGAL

FOURTH MEETING IN ITALY

FIFTH MEETING IN CZECH REPUBLIC