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“Turkey’s Engineer Girls” project has started this year to engage in high schools to provide pre-university support to girls who want to become engineers. As a first step of this new programme, training seminars were organised for school administrators and counsellors. The first seminar was held on 20-22 March in Kemer, Antalya, with participation of more than 100 school principals and counsellors working in high schools.
During the training, innovative methods were introduced to school principals and counsellors which would help them guide girls who wanted to become engineers.
The training was delivered in two phases, one for school administrators and another for school counsellors focusing on many topics such as gender equality, vocational orientation of persons, being a woman engineer etc.
“When we had difficulty in recruiting women engineers to Limak, we found out in a further study of statistics that this was a widespread problem in our country and even in the world; and decided to be a part of the solution”
-Ms. Sevil Server Koç, Corporate Relations Director of Limak Foundation.
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