By the ending of the summer course, between the dates 29th of June and 10th of July, a new record in BEST has been broken. The serie, starting with 2007 summer course, continued with Autumn07, Winter07, Spring08, and with 2008 summer course, BEST Istanbul was recorded in history as the LBG which organized most courses in a row.

Subject of the course, which organized as an engineering competition, was textile and fashion. Students from all over the Europe had a chance to show their talent and style. Participants, which also visited Efes Beer Factory and Ormo Textile Factory, enjoyed their weekend with swimming and having a boat trip.

BEST Istanbul is increasing both quality and quantity of events and becoming activer day by day in BEST.

Be ready to meet the science of BIOENERGY!! The one which is an abundant, domestically available source of clean energy,which helps the world to survive...

Let's learn how bioenergy technologies use renewable biomass resources to produce an array of energy related products including electricity, liquid, solid, and gaseous fuels, heat, chemicals, and other materials. Let's learn it in Istanbul, the official border between Asia and Europe. You will witness both a 3000 years history, Bosporus villages and a skyscrapered business district in the same city!

Do you wonder how come the pizza that has just delivered to your door has its jalapeno from Mexico and its sauce from Italy? What kind of a flow this is?

So get ready to learn more about logistics in the city of Istanbul, the official border between Asia and Europe and the city where the heartbeat of logistics is maximum as well.

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fifth edition...!

The goal of the Trainshop beRICHER5 is to help BEST members to improve skills needed for fundraising.
This will be done through training sessions on fundraising matters, sharing sessions, knowledge transfer sessions, exercises, ...

- beRICHER V

BEST Istanbul has sucsessfully completed the Summer Course (Petroleum, from one source to life) which was between 1st and 14th of the July '07. 23 Students from 15 European countries - 23 different universities had the chance to know Turkey, Turkish culture, and rich Turkish food.

During this two weeks, participants have attended the lectures performed by teachers from ITU in the mornings, and have seen the museums and historical - traditional places of Istanbul in the afternoons. In this two weeks, Participants have seen the Turkish life style, nightlife and friendship in here, and also we all had 23 friends who always welcomes us in their place all over the Europe.

The second part of our last cultural exchange, the Istanbul visit; has completed between the 18th and 25th of the March 07 with 20 participants from BEST Gothenburg and BEST Porto. As a CE programme requarement, the participants had visits to historical beautiful places of Istanbul like Sultanahmet Mosque, Yerebatan Sarnıcı, Mısır Çarşısı, Kapalı Çarşı, Ayasofya, Topkapı Palace, Dolmabahçe Palace, Miniatürk and Koç museums. Besides the historical and touristic places, the participants had chance to visit a turkish bath, smoked waterpipe, and watched a bellydancer as a presentation of traditional Turkish living.

In the discussion sessions, the students shared their ideas and thoughts about the education system in the Europe, and how to improve it as it is done at the first part of the cultural exchange. The outgoings of the organisation as staying, eating, logistics, social activities..etc. are paid by BEST Istanbul as a host. This was also our first organisation which we used European Union (Youth) funds, and also we serve our special thanks to municipality of Istanbul (IBB) because of their support and the delicious food in the municipality restaurants. BEST Istanbul is proud of presenting the BEST Turkish hospitality to the participants.