Cooperation Activities Research Articles

Strategi Pembangunan Masyarakat Desa Kebonagagung Pasca Gempa Bumi

This study aims to identify the community development strategy of Kebonagung Village after the earthquake. The research location is in Kebonagung Village, Wonodadi District, Blitar Regency. This research uses descriptive qualitative method. Sources of data used are primary and secondary data. Data collection techniques through observation, in-depth interviews, and documentation. The results showed that the condition of the people of Kebonagung Village after the earthquake was that some people had a sense of trauma and enthusiasm, lacked basic needs, and experienced losses. The community development strategy of Kebonagung Village after the earthquake was the community’s spirit, making good use of government assistance, praying and making efforts, and carrying out the rebowekasan tradition as a repellent against reinforcements. Obstacles to its implementation were found that some people have fear, mutual cooperation activities are not running well, economic losses, and some people do not carry out traditions. Meanwhile, the role of the Blitar Regency government in community development is to provide encouragement, socialization, assistance, and the establishment of disaster posts. In this case, it shows that the development strategy carried out by the people of Kebonagung Village is used a way to deal with the post-earthquake accompanied by assistance by the government so that life can return to normal and increase the capacity of the community in development based on disaster risk reduction.

100 years of Volkshochschule in Germany – 50 years of DVV International: Signposts for local and global comparative perspectives on adult learning and education

In 2019, German folk high schools – Volkshochschulen (vhs) – celebrated the centenary of their inclusion in the Constitution of the Weimar Republic in 1919, an era when they founded local centres in many parts of the country. Ever since, they have played an important part in the adult learning and education (ALE) sub-sector of the German education system, meanwhile reaching a participation level of almost 9 million learners per year. Under the umbrella of its national association Deutscher Volkshochschul-Verband (DVV), founded in 1953, the vhs offers courses in a variety of subjects and different forms through roughly 900 adult learning centres and almost 3,000 local branches. In 1969, DVV expanded its operations with the establishment of its own institute for international cooperation. DVV International, whose 50th anniversary coincided with the vhs centenary, has institutionalised the diversity and ever-growing scale of cross-border and global cooperation activities of the national association. Marking both anniversaries generated a kind of collective cultural memory which located the vhs in the institutional foundations of a democratic society, and paved the way to advance policy dialogue. At the same time, these anniversaries also fed into a marketing strategy to mobilise higher levels of support and participation. DVV International used the example of the evolution of the vhs system to demonstrate the importance of interventions for better policy, legislation and financing at local, national, regional and global levels. Activities throughout the anniversary year included high-level events, conferences and workshops, publications and studies. Based on these activities and outputs, the authors consider and compare commonalities and differences of ALE milestones in other countries and regions of the world, and their potential for learning from the past for the future.

The spatial relationship between the mobility and scientific cooperation of Chinese scientists

AbstractThis paper constructs a mobility network of Chinese scientists and a cooperation network of scientific research based on data on mobility and research cooperation in China at the urban scale. Through several methods, including spatial analysis, network analysis, and regression analysis, the nodes and bilateral relations in the two networks are found to be highly coupled. Beijing–Tianjin–Hebei, the Yangtze River Delta, and the Pearl River Delta are hot spots for the mobility and scientific research cooperation networks of Chinese scientists. Only a few cities in the two networks play important roles, and most of the cities serve as a foil. The spatial mobility and scientific research cooperation activities of Chinese scientists are concentrated in the eastern region, the Chinese scientists’ mobility and scientific research cooperation networks are rhombus structure, the two networks both are compact and hierarchical network with Beijing as the single dominant city, and the power‐law distribution in the bilateral relationship of two networks shows a “pyramid structure”. Finally, we discuss the possible reasons for the spatial co‐location relationship between the mobility and scientific cooperation of scientists.

How to guarantee food supply during pandemics? Rethinking local food systems from peri-urban strategic agents’ behaviour: The case study of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region

The Covid-19 pandemic has acted as a warning for the world’s current food system, especially in urban contexts with global food dependence. This article aims to analyse the food system behaviour of the Barcelona Metropolitan Region (in the northeast of Spain) during the first stage of the pandemic by deepening the behaviour of different peri-urban agricultural areas in which local food supply is promoted. Semi-structured interviews to 11 entities and institutions located in the peri-urban area of the BMR based on its productive and management profile have been carried out from March to May 2020. The results obtained highlight the socio-economic, environmental, and health perspective of food supply during the pandemic. Main results show 1) shortcomings in the operation and logistics of the metropolitan food system; 2) the complicity between the local producer and the urban consumer through new sales and distribution initiatives, 3) the role of peri-urban agricultural areas for ensuring food supply and land preservation, and 4) the need to initiate cooperation and mutual aid activities between the different agents involved in the food system. Furthermore, agents underlined the need for rethinking the agroeconomic model to strengthening the producer-consumer nexus and promoting local food policy based on food sustainability, sovereignty, and governance.

SDG-Oriented Supply Chains: Business Practices for Procurement and Distribution

This paper aims at analyzing sustainable practices that can be implemented within supply chains, linking them to Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to show the performance achieved by SDG-oriented supply chains. Sustainable practices were collected from the repository “Business Process Framework for Sustainability” owned by the Department of Industrial Engineering of the University of Salerno (Italy). By using literature research and descriptive statistics, there emerges a positive relationship between sustainable development and SC performance enhancement. From the study of the practices that can be implemented for cooperation activities with upstream and downstream supply chain partners, it emerges that companies have many opportunities of both supporting the 2030 Agenda and enhancing their market and organizational performance. The research demonstrates that both procurement and distribution processes could be reengineered by implementing sustainable approaches considering all three dimensions of sustainability. Differences emerge in terms of number of opportunities, depending on motivations for implementing them, industry and supply chain processes, performance achieved, and SDGs pursued.

Conservation of carbon resources and values on public lands: A case study from the National Wildlife Refuge System.

Public lands in the United States are those land areas managed by federal, state, and county governments for public purposes such as preservation and recreation. Protecting carbon resources and increasing carbon sequestration capacity are compatible with public land management objectives for healthy and resilient habitats, i.e., managing habitats for the benefit of wildlife and ecosystem services can simultaneously capture and store carbon. To evaluate the effect of public land management on carbon storage and review carbon management as part of the land management objectives, we used existing data of carbon stock and net ecosystem carbon balance in a study of the National Wildlife Refuge System (NWRS), a public land management program of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service). Total carbon storage of the 364 refuges studied was 16.6 PgC, with a mean value 42,981 gCm-2. We used mixed modeling with Bonferroni adjustment techniques to analyze the effect of time since refuge designation on carbon storage. In general, older refuges store more carbon per unit area than younger refuges. In addition to the age factor, carbon resources are variable by regions and habitat types protected in the refuges. Mean carbon stock and the rate of sequestration are higher within refuges than outside refuges, but the statistical comparison of 364 refuges analyzed in this study was not significant. We also used the social cost of carbon to analyze the annual benefits of sequestrating carbon in these publicly managed lands in the United States, which is over $976 million per year in avoided CO2 emissions via specific conservation management actions. We examine case studies of management, particularly with respect to Service cooperation activities with The Conservation Fund (TCF) Go Zero® Program, Trust for Public Land (TPL) and individuals. Additional opportunities exist in improving techniques to maximize carbon resources in refuges, while continuing to meet the core purpose and need of the NWRS.

The Art of Digital Curation

Artists have long engaged with digital and networked technologies in critical and creative ways to explore both new art forms and novel ways of disseminating artworks. Net-based artworks are often created with the intent to circulate outside traditional institutional spaces, and many are shared via artist-run platforms that involve curatorial practices distinct from those of museums or commercial galleries. This article focuses on a particular artist-run platform called Paper-Thin, characterizing the activities involved in managing the platform as digital curation in a polysemous sense – as both the curation of digital artworks and the stewardship of digital information in a complex technological ecosystem. While scholars and cultural heritage professionals have developed innovative preservation strategies for digital and new media artworks housed in institutional collections, the ongoing care of artworks shared through networked alternative spaces is largely carried out co-operatively by the artists and curators of these platforms. Drawing on Howard Becker’s sociological theory of art worlds as networks of co-operative actors, this article describes the patterns of co-operative work involved in creating, exhibiting, and then caring for Net-based art. The article outlines the importance, for cultural heritage professionals, of understanding the digital-curation practices of artists, as these artist-run networked platforms demonstrate emergent approaches to the stewardship of digital culture that move beyond a custodial paradigm.

A fiscalização sanitária de medicamentos na sociedade de risco

Abstract Drug health surveillance protects the health of the population by preventing substandard, falsified, or unregistered drugs from being consumed and causing harm. This essay discusses drug health surveillance in a context of continuous exposure of individuals to risks that directly interfere with the health-disease process. Based on reflections about health risk and risk society, associated with Canguilhem’s philosophy of life and Schwartz’s ergology, it argues for the need to understand human activity and work to act on risk. Possible challenges for health inspection action include: (1) conceptual review; (2) regulatory updating; (3) development of regulatory mechanisms and tools; and (4) expansion of technical and training capacity. To face them, the involvement and participation of the various actors in cooperation and collaboration spaces, as well as the construction of a permanent forum of discussion or technical/sectorial meetings, is considered promising. Studies that highlight the concrete work of supervision teams and that analyze human activity in the relationship between the prescribed and the real can help to understand the experience of dealing with risk, the adequacy of standards, training needs, among others.

The conventionality control and the Fontevecchia case: Is the margin of appreciation the panacea?

In the paper I comment on some of Claudina Orunesu’s claims in her article “Conventionality control and international judicial supremacy”. Orunesu offers a critical analysis of how the Inter-American Court of Human Rights justifies and develops its conventionality control principle. She draws on the Argentine Supreme Court judgment in the Fontevecchia case to support her claim that the I/A Court should combine the requirement of an internal conventionality control with the European doctrine of the national margin of appreciation. Taking on board the Fontevecchia holding, I engage in a critical review of her proposal by arguing that a reasonable margin of appreciation doctrine would lead to questioning the reasoning of the Argentine Supreme Court in this case. Instead of assuming an adversarial rationale that put the focus on democratic concerns, I suggest approaching the Inter-American institutional framework in cooperative and systemic terms. Once we follow a cooperative logic, deference to national authorities is generally justified when domestic institutions are better situated than an international court for decision-making on human rights. However, the strength of the better situated argument is conditioned on the state’s reliability as a cooperative actor in the Inter-American system. And this reliability is in turn conditioned on the state’s demonstrating its capacity to meet its cooperative duties within the framework of the Convention. In the paper I focus on three such cooperative responsibilities: the duty of impartiality, the duty to adopt a culture of justification, and the duty to embrace a conventional perspective.

Cultural relations of the Russian Federation and the Republic of Austria at the beginning of the 21st century

The present study is devoted to the analysis of the Russian-Austrian cultural relations in the beginning of the 21st century. In the article an attempt to identify and assess current trends and forms of cultural dialogue between Russia and Austria, the factors which influence bilateral cooperation, as well as to assess the prospects of cultural relations has been made on the basis of extensive source materials and research literature. Modern cultural relations between the two countries reflect the general trends and peculiarities of modern bilateral interaction, are characterized by diversity and depth. Bilateral cultural exchange involves not only capitals, major cities, but also the regions. Cultural cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Austria today is based on a solid legal framework, which is replenished with new documents on both the current programs of cultural exchange and strategic issues. A relevant trend of the modern cultural cooperation is institutionalization. This feature is reflected in the modern dialogue between Russia and Austria. Cultural centers, public and state organizations are successful actors of bilateral cooperation, they bring together a wide audience of participants and contribute to the development of cultural contacts on an ongoing basis. Particular attention in the article is paid to a new format of bilateral cultural cooperation between Russia and Austria — the cross-years of cultures, which have become traditional large-scale events of bilateral exchange. This format contributes to the regionalization of interaction and has an impact on economic, political dialogue and investment policy. The conclusions of the study allow identifying the potential of bilateral cooperation between the Russian Federation and the Republic of Austria and forecasting the possible prospects of the cultural dialogue. The chronological framework of this article is the beginning of the 21st to 2020.

Кредитная политика на Южном Урале в начале ХХ века

Relevance. The experience of state regulation of Russia's credit policy is of great practical importance for the modern economic and political development of the country. Currently, current forms of management are being devel-oped, which include credit cooperation. The purpose – analysis of the government's credit policy in the Southern Urals at the beginning of the XX century. Objectives: to determine the forms and main activities of credit cooperation; to study the regional aspects of credit policy in rural areas, to show the features of its implementation in the Southern Urals. Metodology. The research methodology is based on the principles of historicism and objectivity. The methodo-logical basis of the research is a systematic approach. The chronological method and the method of comparative historical analysis are used. Results. At the beginning of the XX century, credit institutions – savings and loan partnerships, most of which functioned in rural areas, became widespread in the Southern Urals. In addition to the main purpose – lending to the small peasant, they were engaged in the sale of bread and other types of agricultural products. Restraining factors for the development of small-scale credit in rural areas were a low level of commodity-money relations on the one hand; legal and class isolation on the other, since there were restrictions on the disposal of peasant property, both allotment land and movable property. Conclusion. Credit policy was one of the results of the development of commodity relations, contributed to providing the most favorable conditions for the development of agriculture in general, had an important impact on the socio-economic development of the South Ural region in the early twentieth century.

Increasing the staff use efficiency in consumer cooperatives: current trends in conditions of digitization of agriculture

The purpose of the study is to identify current trends in increasing the efficiency of using the personnel of consumer cooperation organizations. This, along with other sectors of the economy, performs the functions of the third stage of the economic reproduction process (exchange), and the third sphere of the agro-industrial complex sectors that complete the production process in the sphere of commodity circulation. The personnel of economic entities carry out procurement, transportation, processing, storage and marketing of products to end consumers. In the context of existing demographic problems, the decline of the rural population, the challenge is to increase the efficiency of using the part of the economically active population employed in the diversified activities of consumer cooperation. A long-term study of the functioning of cooperatives made it possible to accomplish the purpose of this study. This concerns the development of ways to increase the efficiency of using the personnel of cooperative organizations – preliminary measures. Such measures include training and retraining of specialists, advanced training of workers in cooperative higher and secondary vocational educational institutions, and subsequent ones as a result of the creation of integrated complexes, using modern equipment, new technologies and digitalization advances, providing for the efficient use of personnel. As a new trend, the training of specialists who work with cooperative members is proposed. The economic participation of members will have a positive impact on the performance of their cooperative and increase the efficiency of the use of personnel of consumer cooperation organizations.

ИЗУЧЕНИЕ ПРАКТИКИ ПРИМЕНЕНИЯ ИНСТИТУТА УПОЛНОМОЧЕННОГО ЭКОНОМИЧЕСКОГО ОПЕРАТОРА

The article considers the degree of expansion of the involvement of customs authorities in the world economy. Attention is focused on the task of a more competent system for simplifying customs regulation, as well as speeding up the movement of goods across the customs border. To date, the development of the institution of an authorized economic operator is the basis for the development of foreign economic activity of large industrial enterprises, regional prosperity and world trade cooperation. This trend is accompanied by the introduction of an optimization mechanism in the organization of relations between participants in foreign economic activity, customs authorities and all process stakeholders. The article also focuses on the disclosure of the main provisions of the Customs Code of the EAEU, the practice of applying and adapting the main theses in relation to the laws of the Russian Federation. The essence of the framework standards in the development of a unified approach to consolidate the status of an economic operator certified by different customs administrations is revealed. Special attention is paid to the introduction of a system of special customs simplifications that allow enterprises participating in foreign economic activity to maintain financial, organizational and production stability. The described problems of assigning AEO status are due to the limited time of re-registration under the new procedure. For an authorized economic operator, the requirements for the internal accounting system, sites, and transport are established. Special customs preferences are considered on the basis of a certificate of one of three types. Certificates of the first type provide advantages when processing customs transit procedures, certificates of the second type – when carrying out customs procedures on the territory of an enterprise with the status of an economic operator, and certificates of the third type – provide for a special order for the priority of pre-declaration release of goods and customs procedures. In addition to the advantages, the article also discusses the problems that have arisen as a result of the introduction of a new approach. The conclusion of international agreements will provide a safer flow of supplies with the participation of an authorized economic operator and will minimize the risk of violation of the law, since all participants will be able to guarantee the indisputability of such transactions. This will help both reduce the time of customs operations and the frequency of control measures, and will push for trade relations with other countries.

Between global collaboration and national competition: Unraveling the many faces of Arctic science diplomacy

Abstract It has been argued that science diplomacy (SD) helps avoid or mitigate conflicts among stakeholders in the Arctic. Yet underlying some of these well-intended and sometimes successful initiatives is a one-sided understanding of SD. The most recent literature takes a more differentiated approach towards the means and ends of SD. It shows that international scientific interaction is shaped by the twofold logic of competition and collaboration. Instruments of SD can be meant to serve national interests, collective regional goals or global agendas. The present paper disentangles these confounding discourses of collaboration and competition based on a conceptually enhanced SD framework. It analyses Arctic strategies and two cases of Arctic SD, the Agreement on Enhancing International Arctic Scientific Cooperation and research activities on Svalbard, to reveal the mechanisms of collaboration and competition in the sphere of international science in relation to security, environment and economy. By pointing out where and how science is currently being used in the Arctic, this article provides (a) a systematic overview of the state of SD in the region and (b) a tool for policy-makers and scientists to assess what impact different facets of SD have in Arctic politics.

КОРОТКИЙ АНАЛІЗ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ З ЦИВІЛЬНО-ВІЙСЬКОВОГО СПІВРОБІТНИЦТВА НА СУЧАСНОМУ ЕТАПІ ЗБРОЙНОЇ АГРЕСІЇ ПРОТИ УКРАЇНИ

A brief analysis of the main areas of civil-military cooperation in the Armed Forces and the National Guard of Ukraine was conducted. The main factor affecting civil-military cooperation activities at the current stage of repelling armed aggression by the Russian Federation is determined. The main directions on the organization of civil-military cooperation were determined, on which efforts had to be focused. Brief conclusions on the assessment of the results of civil-military cooperation of the Armed Forces and the National Guard of Ukraine are given. Prospective directions for concentrating the efforts of specialists in civil-military activities of the National Guard of Ukraine, taking into account the specifics of the assigned tasks, are proposed for consideration. Problems of building and improving the system of civil-military cooperation in the security and defense forces of Ukraine are periodically highlighted in various scientific sources, which indicate the relevance of this direction of military activity. At the same time, the procedure for involving units of the civil-military cooperation of National Guard of Ukraine and the tactics of their actions directly during the implementation of tasks for the settlement of armed conflicts are not determined by the governing documents. The development of the theory of the use of civil-military cooperation units and their spesialists directly depends on taking into account modern realities on the battlefield. Therefore it is necessary to conduct a periodic analysis of the activity of the civil-military cooperation units and its effectiveness and impact on the civilian environment.

Romanian-Hungarian Cross Border Cooperation and the Impact on Transnational Institution Building and EU Fund Absorption

The border region is the collision point of cultures, religions, languages, administrations, legislations and economic influences. All these factors have substantial contribution to the development of the phenomenon called cross-border cooperation. The issue of cross-border cooperation in general goes beyond geographical, economic and legal approaches. If we intend to treat the phenomenon from a specific point of view, we will find ambiguities and uncertainties regarding the role and functioning of some institutions in the process of cross-border cooperation and partnerships. In the process of EU-integration the Hungarian-Romanian state border is becoming even more permeable. The growing permeability of the European borders contributes to the unification of the economic potentials of the neighbouring areas supplying benefits on regional and local level. The efficiency of cross-border cooperation depends on the coordination of all actors involved in this process, but also on the cooperation implemented at all levels, doubled by the existence of an adequate legal framework. The study aims to realize an inventory of the cooperation activities with had an impact on transnational institution building amongst the local governance apparatus in Bihor County in the process of cross-border cooperation in the development period 2014-2020.

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The main factor that will influence the creation of a system of civil-military cooperation at the tactical and operational levels has been identified. The results of the analysis of the main factor that will directly affect the commander?s intent to create a system of civil-military cooperation during special operations and combat actions are considered. The analysis of the guiding documents showed that the procedure for involving civil-military cooperation units of the National Guard of Ukraine and the tactics of their actions during the performance of combat missions as assigned during the settlement of armed conflicts are not defined. In the normal security situation conditions (normal operational situation, in the absence of collision with the enemy and in normal conditions, including criminogenic situation) civil-military cooperation units will be able to conduct their activities almost without restrictions, using a set of technologies to influence the civilian environment. Civil-military cooperation activities in situations of medium complexity (I Option), and in difficult situations (II Option) will be organized in the other way. Both options can be considered as basic scenarios for the involvement of civil-military cooperation forces during during special operations and combat actions. The variants of the procedure for involving the forces and means of civil-military cooperation of the National Guard of Ukraine in combat formations in the course of special operations and combat actions developed and improved during the research are considered. Typical schemes and descriptions of the order of actions of forces and means of civil-military cooperation of the National Guard of Ukraine in combat formations during special operations and combat actions during the armed conflicts settlement are proposed for consideration.

УДОСКОНАЛЕННЯ МЕТОДИКИ ОЦІНЮВАННЯ ВПЛИВУ ДІЯЛЬНОСТІ ПІДРОЗДІЛІВ ЦИВІЛЬНО-ВІЙСЬКОВОГО СПІВРОБІТНИЦТВА НА ВИКОНАННЯ ЗАВДАНЬ ЗА ПРИЗНАЧЕННЯМ ФОРМУВАНЬ НАЦІОНАЛЬНОЇ ГВАРДІЇ УКРАЇНИ ПІД ЧАС ВРЕГУЛЮВАННЯ ЗБРОЙНОГО КОНФЛІКТУ

Three basic components , which directly affect the achievement of goals and the effective performance of the tasks of the civil-military cooperation are considered. A brief analysis of the existing practices of evaluating the activities of civil-military cooperation structural units and the evaluation methodology used by civil-military cooperation specialists of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was carried out. The existing indicators of the effectiveness of the results of civil-military cooperation activities were analyzed. Presented an improved list of criteria for the effectiveness of civil-military cooperation activities, taking into account the specifics of the tasks assigned to the National Guard of Ukraine and a list of possible indicators of positive dynamics (positive changes in the situation) as a result of the operation of the system of civil-military cooperation of the military formation of the National Guard of Ukraine while the performance of assigned tasks, during the settlement of the armed conflict. An improved methodology for assessing the impact of the activities of civil-military cooperation units on the performance of assigned tasks by the formations of the National Guard of Ukraine during the settlement of the armed conflict is proposed.

Facebook jako narzędzie wspierające osiąganie celów z zakresu employer brandingu na rynku IT

Facebook as a Tool Supporting the Achievement of Employer Branding Goals on the IT Market Due to the demand of IT specialists, it is necessary to apply appropriate employer branding activities. To achieve set goals, social media such as Facebook, are used and specific values for stakeholders and strong employer brand are created as well as specialists are encouraged to join or stay in a given organization. What’s more, offered products and services are promoted and the organization presents its own and employees’ development, as well as cooperation process and activities in the field of CSR. Information on events and the celebration of special occasions are also disseminated, and organization presents i.a. workplace culture and recruitment processes, educate recipients and introduce entertainment elements. Due to the above, qualitative research was conducted in the form of an analysis of the content of posts published on Facebook in the period from January 1st to December 31st, 2020, as well as other publications on the discussed phenomenon. The research sample consisted of 4 organizations that took the highest places in the Great Place to Work ranking in the Best Workplaces in Poland 2020 category with over 500 employees, i.e. Cisco Poland, Sii Polska, Hilti (Poland) Sp. z o.o., and Akamai Technologies Poland. The subject of the study was the use of social media in employer branding, and its purpose was to compare the indicated implementation among organizations operating on the IT market. The research problem was the identification of employer branding activities with the use of Facebook among organizations operating on the IT market.

A Classroom-Based Training Program Involving Preschool Children for Developing Prerequisite Learning Skills and Social Skills: Ready to Learn

Social skills training is a good way of intervention for preventing social skills deficiencies and emotional-behavioral problems and academic deficiencies that may arise from these deficiencies. Different activities, different methods-strategies and different approaches from theory to practice can be included in intervention programs for social skills. In this study, it is aimed to introduce a classroom program called “Ready to Learn” developed by Brigman, Lane, and Lane (1994), the scientific effect of which has been proven, and to adapt it to Turkish, thus put forth in an available story-based social skill training program for Turkish children. This program was developed for the children aged four to seven in order to promote the learning skills and social skills that are needed for school success. The program called “Ready to Learn” includes social cooperation activities to contain the use of “big books” that are read aloud, storytelling by teachers and children, activities of drawing, dramatic play, puppet, and song, activities on listening and attention, practices for understanding directions through story structures, as well as discussion and interaction. The program, which consists of a series of stories, includes five teacher strategies: (1) modelling-coaching-cueing, (2) student story-telling, (3) student story re-telling, (4) peer reporting, and (5) encouragement council activities. Within the scope of the study, a social skill training program was gained to the literature for Turkish children in preschool period by carrying out phases from the procedures for the provision of Ready to Learn program to the steps required by the adaptation processes. In this context, the study is envisaged to be a guide for social skills training applications and program development studies for preschool children and to provide an intellectual basis for the practices in daily life, meanwhile to be a key resource for improving the problems experienced in preschool period.