World Values Survey General Assembly at Bahçeşehir University

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The 2008 World General Assembly of the World Values Survey, known as the most comprehensive project in the world in the field of social sciences, is meeting at Bahçeşehir University on 18-20 September. Türkiye joined the World Values Surveys, which began in 1981, in 1990. The Türkiye leg of the World Values Survey is conducted by Bahçeşehir University faculty member Prof. Dr. Yılmaz Esmer.

To date, information has been collected through interviews with 356,815 people from all over the world, and more than 90 countries have participated in the survey at least once. The main aim of the World Values Survey is to monitor political, social and cultural change around the world.

The opening of the World Values Survey General Assembly will take place on 18 September at 17:00 with a cocktail reception at the Bahçeşehir University Fazıl Say Stage. The opening speech of the General Assembly will be delivered by Ms. Maria Leissner, Sweden's Ambassador for Democracy.

We will be delighted to see all those interested at the opening and cocktail reception, which Bahçeşehir University is honored to host.