FEC is executing external contact and international cooperation programs also in the framework of local administrative bodies, based on its objective of" contributing towards the internationalization of provinces". The FEC plans various study programs on global subtects for local administrative officials and executes the programs in foreign countries in cooperation with the government agencies. A particular mention should be made of the study program that the FEC has been organizing in Singapore since 1990. Till the fiscal 1998, more than 800 people have participated in it.