OUR TURKISH PARTNER; SALIHLI

Salihli Bilim ve Sanat Merkezi (Salihli Science and Art Centre) is located in Salihli, which is resided in the province of Manisa, in the Aegean Region, Turkey. Salihli is 90km away from İzmir, Turkey’s third biggest city, and 110km away from the airport. The county of Salihli, which is overtaken by the effect of the Mediterranean climate, is a town of agriculture, commerce and industry with its 165.000 people in population. The ancient city Sardis, which is famous for the world’s first official bank Artemisia, Anatolian’s biggest king tombs, one of the most important churches of Christianity and the place where the first official gold coin had been found in the world, is located in Salihli. Thermal Spring of Kurşunlu and the mud bath in Salihli serve for the health tourism. Besides, Bozdağ Ski Resort is another wealth of the county for winter tourism.

Our institution, which is situated in a modern city with significant cultural wealthiness, is subjected to the General Directorate of Special Education Guidance and Counselling Services of Turkish Ministry of Education. In our institution, we provide supplementary  education for the gifted and highly talented children. Scientific, social, artistic and linguistic projects and studies are carried out by our students and their consultants. Projects are prepared for national and international competitions and olympiads. Worldwide successes have been achieved so far in different branches from these competitions.

Our institution serves education and counselling for 214 students with its 20 tutors. The education at our centre is detached from the students’ formal education in the form of individual and group activity programme. Five different education programmes are applied step by step to the students at our centre. These schedules respectively are Orientation, Supplementary Education, Period for Differentiating the Individual Abilities, Period for Enhancing the Special Talents and Period of Projects. Our students are aged between 10 and 18.