Vocational High Schools Together Against Covid-19

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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:

  • Providing accurate data/information to stakeholders about the location of vocational high schools and their protective equipment and hygiene products production conditions
  • Specifying prospective investment needs
  • Increasing recognition of the project before public institutions
  • Facilitating the project application
  • Making local governments involved actively in utilizing the products produced by vocational high schools.
  • To ensure local governments provide people in need with protective equipment and hygiene products sustainably.
  • Informing vocational high schools about the local problems that they could solve.
  • Increasing awareness of climate change among vocational high school students.
  • Making vocational high school students focus on providing solutions to the problems caused by climate change in their future professional lives.
  • Enhancing the project recognition.

 

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

  • Date/Location:

    June 2021 / May 2022
    Afyonkarahisar, Turkey

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