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Turkey
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Human rights
- International/Cultural relations
- Research
- Youth and education
From the very beginning of its establishment, GENCEV aims:
• To help the development of cultural, social and artistic backgrounds of the young people.
• To increase the tolerance and friendship among the young people without race, religion, language and gender discrimination.
• To help young people for getting into the social life as conscious and productive individuals.
• To inform the young people about the cultural, social and natural richness of our country.
• To establish Youth Culture Houses and to organize workshops on cultural, artistic and scientific subjects.
Youth San-Art Days: “Strengthening Civil Society in the Pre-Accession Process NGO Grant Facility – “Civil Society Dialogue: Culture in Action” with the budget line 22.02.04.02-TR 0501.02. The aim of the project was to bring together the young people from Turkey and other European countries in order to enable them to explore different aspects of European culture by using cultural and artistic activities as tools. International Youth Exchanges: Since 2004 GENCEV actively follows and participates in the developments in youth work under “YOUTH” program and starting from 2007 under “Youth in Action” Program. GENCEV has been organizing and participating several youth projects supported by Council of Europe and European Commission through their programs.
Vocational Training: Within one of the aims of GENCEV, to improve the occupational training of youth and within the A type projects in Leonardo da Vinci Programme; a Trainig Trip application has been made. Diyarbakır Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası, Kayseri Ticaret Odası, Samsun Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası, Trabzon Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası, Gaziantep Ticaret Odası, Mersin Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası, Bursa Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası ve Adana Ticaret ve Sanayi Odası participated to the Training Trip in Frankfurt.
National and International Youth Camps: Our association organises exchange programs for the purpose of improving the cultural understanding in cooperation with youth foundations of different countries and organises national and international youth camps in different areas of our country
Seminars / Conferences: Our association provides the member’s participation to training seminars and conferences in different fields and organises Leader Training Seminars in Turkey and provides youth to participate in social life. The young people, who takes place in Leader Training Seminars participates to our projects and activities as leaders
National Youth Council Initiative: Our association takes place actively in the actions of National Youth Council Initiative, which has firstly started to work on 6 February 2003 for the purpose of supporting our youth for participation representation on the national and international level. GENCEV is the member of following committee, which has been established to realize the actions of National Youth Council Initiative on national and international level. Our association was one of the partners of the project, which has been prepared by 6 associations in National Youth Council Initiative and applied to European Union Civil Society Development Programme with the name “A network in Youth Field: Turkey National Youth Council” and the contract number: 2003/TQ06/99/010. This project, chosen by European Commission was implemented upwards July 2004 during 10 months.