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JOINT RESEARCH WORKSHOP Joint Research Workshop of SInAN project was organized at TEPSA premises in Brussels on 24th and 25th October, 2008 with the participation of partner organizations CES-METU, JMC-Cologne and associates as well as researchers from ERA. In the opening session, project coordinator Prof. Dr. Atila Eralp and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels delivered their speeches and welcomed the participants. They both emphasized the importance of differences between the European and Turkish perspectives regarding Turkey-EU relations and of working together to develop common points of orientation. After the welcome remarks, they gave the floor to the guest speaker, Mr. Graham Avery - the Secretary General of the Trans European Policy Studies Association; senior adviser at the European Policy Centre; senior member of St. Anthony’s College, Oxford University; and honorary director-general of the European Commission. Mr. Avery emphasized the importance of studying Turkey and Turkish accession to the EU in a global context and the reasons behind the enlargement in a comparative perspective. Sessions of the JRW concentrated on curriculum development and the research agendas of the work packages I, II and III. A special session on Myths and Elites took place in the second day of the workshop where emphasis was put on various aspects of the mass and elite level opinion surveys on Turkey and EU, providing input on the myths and elite survey dimension of the project. In this session, the speakers, Prof. Pierangelo Isernia and Prof. Luca Verzichelli from the University of Siena, and Prof. Dr. Ali Çarkoğlu from Sabancı University presented outcomes from Transatlantic Trends Survey, European Elite Survey, Intune Surveys and other studies providing linkages to Turkey and its relations to the EUPresentation of Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wessels Presentation of Prof. Dr. Ali Çarkoğlu Presentation of Prof. Dr. Pierangelo Isernia |
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