Contribution of educational activities conducted by local administrations to the economy: Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality; for example KO-MEK

Widespread educational activities presents one with lifelong learning opportunities. Mass education is one of the most important occasions for people who not benefitting from formal education for any reason whatsoever or those who were unable to perfect their formal education during the life.Education is known to be the heaviest factor to have cultural, social and economical progress quicken.Improvement of countries is related to societies' development,which has a lot to do with individuals' education. This concept named human capital gains meaning thanks to investments for individuals.As days passed,works carried out by local governments in Turkey about widespread educational activities rises. Those of Kocaeli metropolitan municipality has been going on since 2004.In terms of art,social and profession,the activities of Kocaeli metropolitan municipality has been unabatedly increasing in twelve districts,providing trainees with employabilities.The reason why Kocaeli metropolitan municipality has been maintaining the activities for eight years,operations of professional and art education courses, causes letting those sustain their activities, employabilities, profiles of the courses,contributions to individuals, establisments and economical diversity will be explicatedKey Words: Widespread educational, local governments