Osmanağa mah. Şemsitap sk Tırnakçı İş Hanı, D:no:5 d:17
34714 Kadıköy/İstanbul
Turkey
- Youth and education
European Integration Group (EIG) was established in Istanbul, Turkey by a few young and dynamic people, who have experience in the sphere of social projects realization on the local and international levels. The group believes that the key to welfare, stability, democracy and tolerance is the successful integration of all the social and ethnic groups into society. Even though the group is itself young, it has simply united experienced professionals working in the sphere of integration in order to help the minorities in Istanbul. Therefore, the experience within the organisation is high.
Besides helping refugees in Istanbul our group promotes active youth participation in elections. In many countries, particularly in Eastern Europe and newly-established democracies, people have expressed deep concern not only about the overall low level of participation but especially among specific groups like youth, women and the indigenous population. Increasing reluctance among youth to participate in politics and exercise the right to vote is particularly alarming and amounts, according to some, to a weakening of democracy. Therefore, it is imperative to find out the reasons for low youth turnout in order to reverse this trend and re-engage the young in the political and democratic process.
Besides these topics, the European integration Group has a sports background and inclusion through sports activities. EiG has been locally spreading Capoeira dance for social inclusion together with capoeira organizations in Istanbul.
The main aims are:
* education, science and culture project development;
* charity;
* solving of various social problems persisting within the local community;
* development of youth projects, interests and social activities;
* raising social welfare and improving living conditions of the poor and socially disadvantaged groups of people;
* minimizing youth unemployment;
* promote “every single vote matter” campaign;
* educating the youth about entrepreneurship and various opportunities within the EU;
* help minorities (in particular, refugees) in Istanbul to (1) get used to using all the public facilities in the city; (2) understand how the healthcare and other emergency services work; (3) learn the language so that communication barrier would be gone.
The activities of our organization are based on the approaches of non-formal education, experiential and intercultural learning, social inclusion and active participation. The activities include but are not limited to: networking and cooperation; educational projects of different types (e.g. training courses, seminars etc); awareness-raising and policy development; capacity building of youth organisations and organisations/institutions working with young people and youth workers; coaching of initiatives, organisational and individual coaching; personal and professional development; mobility. “European Integration Group” collaborates with other European NGOs and international organizations and helping others host activities in a number of countries, promote cultural diversity and contribute to the positive social changes in the European continent. Voting is the only form of participation in which each citizen has an equal say (one person, one vote). By voting, youth have the same ability as others to exercise political influence or pressure. EIG takes the first step in that direction by documenting the scope and pervasiveness of the problem internationally, exploring its causes, and identifying possible solutions in the form of innovative ideas and concrete programmes to raise youth interest and participation. We are managing and cooperating projects under the Erasmus+ Programme.
a) We work especially for the mobility of youth workers and young people.
b) We give opportunities to young people in higher education to take on an internship in another European country.
c) We provide opportunities for vocational students and staff to undertake traineeships abroad.
d) We also work closely with adults in terms of their digitalization and closing gap between the generations.
Digital competences are necessary for all aspects of life, whether they are social or personal, relate to labour or leisure, in any sector, public or private. Improved citizenship is the primary aim of developing digital competences. It is our conviction that the education and training on digital competencies need a more consistent approach and a cohesive European system of delivery. That is why we are supporting Adults to gain digital skills for a valuable future.
We focus to support Adults that have an insufficient level of digital skills. That means that they’re having less chances to find work, to use online services, to have a better quality of life, to be included in today’s society. We empower our member organisations representing non-formal education providers to support millions of Adults to succeed in the digital transformation by providing them with training and advice. We believe that every adult should be able to exploit the benefits and opportunities created by digital transformation.
Our well-experienced trainers organize training for every target groups about non-formal education, European integration, active citizenship, volunteer opportunities, democracy etc. Furthermore, the volunteers of the group organisation have participated in different Erasmus+ projects abroad (in Romania, Greece, Spain, Italy, etc.) that we're aiming to increase people tolerance towards different minority groups.
By inviting other network organisations to our future project and by sharing our knowledge from work with youth on different topics.
To expand our partner network and work on some new applications.