British Council Uzbekistan in partnership with Kelajak Ovozi (KO) have celebrated 70 Days to Go to London Olypmpics 2012 on May 19 in the newly opened Eco Park in the centre of Tashkent city. This event was one of the series of partnership events around London Olympics 2012 and brought together around 70 talented representatives of Uzbekistan youth organisation, the absolute world judo champion from Uzbekistan, Abdulla Tangriev, the chief trainer of the Uzbek national judo team, Mumin Ergashev and Uzbek popular media channels, Forum TV and NTT.

Eco Park as the venue was chosen to represent the London Olympics 2012 being the “greenest” ever Olympic Games as well as give a chance to the participants to challenge their physical fitness together with knowledge about Olympics and English skills.

One of the KO activists, Jasur Ostonov,  said about the event on the facebook “…I would like to thank "Kelajak Ovozi" YIC and British Council Uzbekistan for organizing such a magnificent event.”

The first in this series of events was held in partnership with KO and British Embassy in October to celebrate 250 days to go and the next sporting event is planned for coming July during the annual KO Summer Camp to celebrate 15 days to go to London Olympics 2012.

All the activities around London Olympics 2012 aim at raising awareness of the London Olympics 2012, Uzbekistan presence at the Olympics 2012 and highlighting the importance of the healthy lifestyle.

In April 2012 22 academic leaders from Uzbekistan including university prorectors, deans, heads of departments and seniour lecturers attended intensive knowledge sharing and training programme at London Metropolitan University in the UK. The visit is part of innovative TEMPUS project named ''The Enhancement of Quality Assurance Systems Through Professional Development of Academic Leaders'' that brings together the concortium of 3 European universities from the UK, Greece, Lethuania, 5 uzbek universities - University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Samarqand Foreign Languages Institute, Samarqand Institute of Commerce , Bukhara State University and Karshi State University, the Ministry of Higher and Secondary Specialised Education of Uzbekistan and the British Council Uzbekistan.

The project builds on the previous work in the area of quality assurance in higher education and provides development opportunities for academic staff invloved in curriculum reform through exchange of knowledge and ideas and, by doing this, will contribute to innovation in teaching and learning nationwide.

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On April 23-27, British Council together with the project teams of its key partnering institutions have committed to doing variety of green acts ranging from individual and family walks instead of using transport to/from work/study places to planting trees and cycling.

This activity involved around 95 people across the facebook social network, these were the activists of Kelajak Lingvo, Culture Week groups, PSG, ETTE, Teacher and Students, Youth Employment Centre, All about books and Neo Consulting groups as well as people from Italy, Pakistan and USA, and ninety per cent of the British Council Uzbekistan staff. It is interesting to underline that majority of the active participants were people aged 25+ . Another interesting discovery was that BC Uzbekistan staff likes walking a lot.

Small “green” presents celebrated the Green Week and highlighted British Council Uzbekistan everyday green work. For more information on BC Green Policy, please contact Emine Sheykhametova