The 5th Istanbul Gathering held on February 14-16th 2020, started with the “Tips for a Successful Job Interview” module of Leadership in Engineering Certificate Programme with the trainer İpek Aral.
Female engineering students coming from all over Turkey, the project mentors, coaches, and other precious guests came together on the second day of the event. The Gathering opened with the speeches of Ebru Özdemir, The Chairperson of Limak Foundation; Sukhrob Khojimatov, UNDP Deputy Resident Representative and Gülser Ustaoğlu, General Director on the Status of Women at the Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Services. Like every year, the 5th Istanbul Gathering also hosted many inspirational role model speeches and training programs as well. Dr. Menzer Pehlivan, Co-chairperson of the Technical Group of Jacobs Earthquake Engineering; Murat Kolbaşı, Chairperson of Arzum; Melek Pulatkonak, Founder of TurkishWin & BinYaprak; Giovanni Guidetti, Head Coach of VakıfBank and Turkey Women’s National Volleyball Team; Belçim Bilgin, actress, Aret Vartanyan, author and Leyla Varan, senior psychologist, met with the audience with their speeches.
On the last day of the Gathering, Dr. Gökçe Bayrakçeken; Gender Equality Specialist of UNDP Turkey; made a panel about “Gender Equality Awareness Raising”. After the panel, the music band GRIPIN and the students of Engineer Girls of Turkey Project composed together with the project song!
