
Jesus Ortega
The University of Leeds is acclaimed world-wide for the quality of its teaching and research, and continues to be ranked within the top 100 universities in the QS world rankings. Leeds is one of the largest universities in the UK with an annual income of €649m and over 33,000 students (over 6870 from overseas) and approximately 7,540 staff of 99 different nationalities, attached to 560 different undergraduate and 300 postgraduate degree programmes. In 2010/11 its annual research income exceeded €157 m of which 7.9% was derived from EU awards. The University of Leeds is currently successfully co-ordinating 82 FP7 projects and is a partner in a further 116 FP7 projects. A further 30 FP7 grants are under negotiation; 10 of which are co-ordinated by Leeds. It has hosted/is currently hosting 43 Marie Curie Individual Fellowships and Integration Grants and is currently co-ordinating 8 FP7 Marie Curie Initial Training networks and is a partner in a further 13. Leeds total income from FP7 is in excess of €84m with a further €16.5m under negotiation. Under FP6 Leeds was involved in over 200 funded projects that were awarded research income of over €60m. The University of Leeds therefore has a very successful track record of managing both individual fellowships and large international projects and of hosting visiting researchers of all career stages for both training and knowledge transfer purposes.

Mrs Gunseli Ozkan
Private/SME. Ankara.
Activities/sectors:Learning Management System development, management and implementation , intelligent learning, Advanced management of web application. Web information mining, filtering and retrieval, content and knowledge repositories. Networking. Statistical Analysis, Data processing.
Conducting Needs Assessment (Problem Analysis), Types of E-learning Design and Training (M or U learning), Integrated E-learning Applications, Multimedia for learning, Knowledge Management and Learning with Instructional Design Models, Instructional Technologies in Education, business and Industry, Distance Education, Planning Instructional Project Management for managing Instructional design Projects.
Development Lifelong learning Strategies, Human Performance Technology Development, Teacher Development, Evaluation in Instructional Design.
Instructional Design Applications in Business and Industry, Professional Development, Measurement and Evaluation Applications in Education, Developing e-learning materials for Schools and Industry, Re-organizational design and training for companies and organizations. Development of Training Programs for business, Industry and Schools.
Solving Instructional and non-instructional problems for organizations. Interactive Multimedia Design for Instruction, Computer-Based Instruction (CBI), Instructional Software Design and Development, Internet-WEB Based Instruction, Visual Literacy, Visual learning design, Types of Literacy, Message Design, Information and communication Technologies (ICT), Instructional Material Design and Development, Using Interactive Whiteboards (IWBs), Teaching Complex Technical Skills, Computer-Based tools for Instructional Design, Rapid Instructional Design, Development of Learning-Teaching Strategies,
Applying Teaching-Learning Theories and New IDT Approaches.
Web Application Development (C/C++ Programming Language, PHP Programming Language, Python Programming Language, Ruby Programming Language, Serverside Javascript),Relational Database Management Systems (MySQL, Sqlite3),NoSQL Database Systems (MongoDB), Application User Interface Design (Photoshop, Gimp, XHTML, HTML5, Javascript, CSS3) ,Linux .

Mr Akın ÖZKARDAŞ
ISTANBUL METROPOLITAN MUNICIPALITY
Department of EU and Istanbul International Finance Center
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) holds a very important place in local administration organization of Istanbul. Its area of responsibility encompasses the entire provincial territory, which spans a total area of 5,343 km2. IMM has 25 municipal enterprises, 2 subsidiary public utility corporations (Transport Authority and Water & Sanitation Authority) and 43,500 employees in total. It is responsible for wide variety of areas including environment, natural-gas supply, energy, infrastructure, planning and development, IT, transportation, community services and vocational education, health-wellness, food & catering, culture, tourism etc.
IMM is the member of Union of Turkish Municipalities (TBB), Union of Municipalities of Marmara Region (MBB), United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG), World Academy for Local Governance and Democracy (WALD), World Association of Major Metropolises (METROPOLIS), Network of Major European Cities (EUROCITIES), Organization of World Heritage Cities (OWHC), European Cities against Drugs (ECAD), WHO Healthy Cities Network etc.
The responsibilities of IMM are divided into various categories, and European Union is one of the most essential ones. IMM carries out its EU activities through its EU Relations Department which was established 2005.

Istanbul Büyükşehir Belediyesi
officer
Mr Ender Oztas
Likya Teknoloji is a Software Development and IT Consultancy company based in Istanbul, Turkey. Likya Teknoloji specialized in IT workload automation and data mining. IT Automation services include solutions and consultancy for automating IT tasks and processes in various IT environments. Likya Teknoloji develops and sells an IT Job Scheduling and Workload Automation software called Tlos. Data Mining services include handlinga and processing of big data in complex business environments, business intelligence and business analytics, reporting, and design and development of data warehouses and ETL systems. R&D activities include enterprise level software design and development utilizing Java, XML, Web 2.0 and database technologies.