Anna Lindh Foundation

Istanbul Young Steps Association

National Network

Türkiye

Address

Sultantepe Genclik Merkezi Selvilik Caddesi No:7 Uskudar Istanbul/ Turkey

Country

Turkey

City

Istanbul

Street address 2

Sultantepe Genclik Merkezi Selvilik Caddesi No:7 Uskudar

Mobile Phone

00905362970356

Telephone

00902164952311

E-Mail

iletisim@igad.org.tr

Year of Establishment

2003

Contact Person1

Genar Ersoy

Contact Person 2

Emir Ay

Organisation Type

Non-Governmental Organization

Fields of Activity

International/Cultural relations

General Information

We are working with volunteers. we have 56 young volunteers. We organized YiA projects on Euromed field. Our first fund resources are fundation programmes. We organized training course with Euromed parthnership on last year. We were parthnership of 3 Euromed youth projects and we have a lot of parthnership on Euromed area. We joined ToT.Em and Tool Fair 7 which are Salto Euromed Resource Centre's acitivities.

Mission and Objectives

Istanbul Young Steps Association has been established by youth workers and active youngesters in order to have an active role in youth work at national level. We as an association, started to work on YIA and will improve our works. IGAD is a member of Turkish Youth Federation and main objectives are: * to enable youngsters to be an active part of the society * to provide necessary skills and knowledge to young people to improve themselves as active citizens in the society * to enable them to be aware of multicultural dimension and intercultural learning * to mobilize youngsters in order to be more familiar of different dimensions and approaches * to raise the awareness of multicultural dialogue, mutual understanding and youth power in peace making process * to promote anti-racism and enable young people to work actively on the subject

Main Projects / Activities

YiA projects, youth awareness, activities about interculturel learning.

Why do you want to join the ALF Network?

We were organized Euromed youth projects and joined as a partner. We joined a lot of activities organzied by Salto Euromed. We joined ALF Turkey meeting 2 years ago as a observer.