Vocational High Schools Together Against Covid-19

The “Vocational High Schools Together Against Covid-19” Project, funded by Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), is carried out by the Climate Research Association in partnership with the Disaster Awareness Association (ABD).

The overall aim of the project is to reveal the effect of changing climate and increasing air temperatures as a result of human activities on the emergence and spread of new diseases, to raise awareness by eliminating the lack of information about the connection between these two situations through technical and industrial vocational high schools, and to take precautions against the spread of possible pandemics in the future. is to contribute.

With the project activities to be carried out within this framework, it is aimed to do mapping about the equipment condition and production capacity against Covid-19 of approximately 4.300 vocational high schools throughout Turkey, to do networking with Provincial Directorates of National Education, particularly the Ministry of National Education to advertise the project, and to conduct surveys, and education, to establish communication channels between local government and vocational high schools in the selected pilot region (Afyonkarahisar), To increase the awareness of vocational high school students about the link between climate change and contagious diseases, such as Covid-19, by digital platforms (web, social media) to be created

As a result of the activities and project outputs that will last for 12 months, the expected gains in the long term are summarized below:

For more detailed information about the project, you can visit http://meslekdestek.org/