Büyükdere Mh. Prof. Dr. Nabi Avcı Bulvarı, ESOGÜ Meşelik Yerleşkesi No:4/1 İç Kapı: 111
26040 Eskişehir /
Turkey
- Youth and education
Youth Academy Sport Club Association is a non-profit non-governmental organisation working for generalizing daily sports and strategic entrepreneurship policies, innovation and youth employment habit among youngsters aged between 15-40. For this aim our association uses the desire of differentiation of youngsters and sports and projects as the tool. The main sport branches that our association has been applying are dragon boat, horse riding and climbing.
Correspondingly, our association works in the field of advocacy for youth rights in different fields. Through these two main areas, we keep close contact with other association working for close aims in local, regional and international level. Our structure is being manage and ran by volunteers. Our core volunteer team runs this communication process according to their interest areas. In addition, Turkish Red Crescent Eskişehir City Branch is also a powerful partner for our association. Most of our managing volunteers worked for TRC Eskişehir Youth Department before. This close relation improves the quality of our activities. Youth Academy Sport Club Association mainly applies project based advocacy work. Also, we apply sport events for our volunteers.
Through different European Union funds, we have been implementing Erasmus+, European Solidarity Corps (ESC) volunteering, and European Delegation funds. We believe that youth work and capacity building for them is an important asset of shaping our future. Projects, networks, multi-cultural interactions are also the way to increase dialogue between different cultures. This small steps may turn into bigger collaborations. Therefore, we have been implementing ESC projects continuously. Currently, we are also implementing another networking project (Hippotherapy Turkey) funded by EU Delegation to Turkey under "Support to Civil Society Networks in Turkey". We are creating a network between organizations, and professionals for establishing a hippotherapy network in Turkey. In addition, we are doing advocacy for a hippotherapy legislation accepted by Ministry of Health in Turkey.
System and Generation, and the Association of Civil Society and Development Institute (ACSDI) are experienced organization in Turkey. The experience and potential they have is obviously the reason that they were found qualified to be a part of Turkish Network. In addition to their valuable works, Youth Academy Sports Club Association can bring another perspective with its young, ambitious team. Both of the organizations do not work in sports related areas. Considering the realities of our new world, problems caused by malnutrition, obesity, regarding the habits of the modern world, the numbers of people who suffer from various diseases. Due to eating habits, and cultures, malnutrition based obesity, and related diseases can be seen often in Mediterranean cultures. Youth Academy might fill in that expertise of the network in Turkey as well as different funding mechanisms.
As Youth Academy Sports Club Association, we understand the value, and power of the networking. This is also why we decided that a network for hippotherapy in Turkey is needed for implementation of professional hippotherapy activities, and sustainability. Therefore, on the topics that we have been working such as youth empowerment, culture, policy advocacy, disabled people. We believe that being a part of ALF will be contribute to widen our vision, increase the impact of our works.