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EXPERIENTIAL TRAINING CENTER ASSOCIATION
National Network
Türkiye
Address
Omer Avni Mah. Inebolu Sok. No:11 D:6 Beyoglu-Istanbul/TURKEY 34427 ISTANBUL/ TurkeyCountry
TurkeyCity
ISTANBULStreet address 2
Omer Avni Mah. Inebolu Sok. No:11 D:6 Beyoglu-Istanbul/TURKEYMobile Phone
0090555 3054910Telephone
0090212 2491911Telephone (other)
0090555 9949300E-Mail (2)
mustafa@demturkey.comE-Mail (3)
volkan@demturkey.comE-Mail (4)
zeynep@demturkey.comWebsite
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2009Contact Person1
Mehmet Volkan MUDERRISOGLUJob Title 1
ChairmanContact Person 2
Mustafa ERDOGANJob Title 2
General CoordinatorOrganisation Type
Non-Governmental OrganizationFields of Activity
Democracy and community developmentGeneral Information
We are working on non-formal education and experiential learning field. As a non-profit NGO, our organization's structure is based on volunteer works. We are a team which includes experienced trainers and civil society workers. In our core team, we are approximately 10 people. We are also one of the founders of DeM International, which is an union has 6 member NGOs from 5 countries over Europe. We have different resources like EU grants, national grants and Embassy supports for our financial sustainability. We work project based and on thematic subjects in education field related with democracy, active citizenship and human rights. So, we have local, national and international seminars, exchanges, long-term strategic partnership projects and capacity building activities as training courses, DeM International meetings. In our projects, we have 5 main partner organizations as Aktyvistai (Lithuania), Iasis (Greece), İkos (Turkey), Povod (Slovenia), RNK (Estonia).Mission and Objectives
As Experiential Training Center Association, we believe in alternative education. We work in non-formal education and experiential learning fields. With the methods that we use, we are aiming to help people discovering their potentials and rising awareness on themselves and their environments in the field of social development, democracy and human rights. So, with this background, our mission is to increase the recognition and dissemination of non-formal education and experiential learning fields on local, national and international level.Main Projects / Activities
Our main activities are delivering trainings and designing learning modules, tools and learning games based on our analyses about our working fields and target groups. Also we are designing and preparing projects in our team and organize the projects that we carry out. The most important projects that we carried out are; Science At Theatre that held by Italy; Referees Training, Camp Pass It on and 12 Giant Men Summer Basketball camps which held by Turkish Basketball Federation (personal development and team building trainings), Erasmus for Everybody (held by EuroStarTV).How can you contribute to the Network in your country?
We can contribute to the network in these four aspects: training, methodology, network and multiplying. We have 10 years experience in non-formal education field and we can support to the network with trainings and our methodologies based on experiential learning. Also we can disseminate the network power that we took from ALF on the national level. Because we support institutes with colsultancy partnerships.Why do you want to join the ALF Network?
We are working on education and social involvement field and we are powerful in the field that we work. On the other hand, we feel responsible for human rights field in Turkey and we would like to work more on this field, so we believe we can widen our connections via ALF network.