APECS Turkey was founded in 2013 by Dr. Burcu Ozsoy (Director of ITU PolReC) In
2015 Turkish Students’ Polar Research Team (PolSTeam) was founded to have o
rganic body with APECS Turkey. Since that time APECS Turkey is a growing fa
mily with undergraduate and graduate students plus public’s involvement.
APECS Turkey has a big E&O program, executed by PolSTeam members. D uring one-year period, APECS Turkey members usually visit about 30-60 prima ry, middle and high schools, make age orientated presentations about climat e change and polar regions. Also APECS Turkey members organize public event and surveys.
To reach more children, we did teach 150 science teache rs all around the Turkey and around half of those teachers founded polar cl ubs in their schools. (60 clubs * 10-20 students/per year) During their clu b times (1 hour each week for 20 weeks) they follow a curriculum designed a nd fully filled with sources by APECS Turkey members.
Another project , named “Educators Supporting Collaboration on Polar Regions Project (ESCoP )”, is supported by ITU PolReC to involve teachers to Arctic and Antarctic expeditions to improve their knowledge on polar regions and polar science. A national open call will be opened on August for the educators.
Addi tionally, APECS Turkey members are working with Ministry of Education to ad d more climate and polar issues to national curriculums for all grade stude nts.
Some of the main problems of APECS NCs are funding, structure an d reaching children. As of APECS Turkey, we would like to share our experie nces on the topics
by hosting you in Istanbul on 3rd and 4th of Oc tober.
If you would like to attend the workshop, please fill the form.
ITU PolReC would like to support all participants for acco mmodation, lunches, dinners and coffee breaks. Also we are happy to inform you that ITU PolReC accepted to support 3 participants’ travel limited with 1000 USD each. All early career scientist, educators and polar E&O pro grams members are welcome to apply for travel grant by filling the form .
NCs or other organizations who would like to make presentations sho uld send an e-mail to This email address is being protected fr om spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.