Türkiye

As mentioned JCI Adana focuses on international and local goals, these projects vary. Most of our projects are encouraged to last for one year. But certain priorities receive extended (more than 1 year; most seen for 5-6 years). Internationally supported projects/Activities: Better Partnerships As an international non-governmental organization (NGO) with active participation in the UN system, JCI’s international partners include big names in global development, capacity building and international cooperation. Our partnerships are based in mutual goals and a synergy with the JCI Mission and Values, creating the maximum impact to support the local work our members do every day. Partner: United Nations Focus: UN Millennium Development Goals (UN MDGs) JCI has officially partnered with the UN since 1954. Through the years, these relationships have expanded to include various branches in the UN system as the two organizations collaborate to magnify their collective impact. In 2003, JCI committed to advancing the UN Millennium Development Goals, a set of time-bound targets for poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women. JCI members organize thousands of projects every year committed to advancing the goals and using the UN MDGs as a framework. Partner: United Nations Global Compact Focus: Corporate Sustainability The United Nations Global Compact is a call to companies everywhere to voluntarily align their operations and strategies with ten universally-accepted principles in the areas of human rights, labour, environment and anti-corruption, and to take action in support of UN goals. Launched in 2000, it is the world’s largest corporate sustainability initiative, with over 10,000 signatories in 145 countries, and Local Networks in over 100 countries. JCI partners with the UN Global Compact to educate small- and medium-sized enterprises on how to be responsible and profitable in a competitive global market. Partner: International Chamber of Commerce-World Chambers Federation (ICC-WCF) Focus: Global Economic Progress The ICC is the voice of world business championing the global economy as a force for economic growth. Through our partnership with the ICC-WCF, JCI Local Organizations collaborate with local chambers of commerce to collaborate on projects to advance global economic progress and encourage entrepreneurship. Partner: UN Foundation Focus: Combating Malaria with JCI Nothing But Nets Malaria is the leading killer of children in Africa, but this deadly disease can be prevented with the use of insecticide-treated bed nets. Through JCI Nothing But Nets, a campaign in partnership with the UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets initiative, JCI members raise funds for the purchase and distribution of insecticide-treated nets and educate communities on their proper use. Partner: UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) Focus: Youth Capacity Building Since 1996, JCI has contributed to achieving UNESCO's goal of promoting cooperation among its 193 Member States and 6 Associate Members in the fields of education, science, culture and communication. JCI Local and National Organizations collaborate with UNESCO in many ways, including participating in the NGO International Conference and theme-specific collective and regional consultations. Such projects are established and diffused also locally within Turkey and Adana area.

- ITEF - Istanbul Tanpinar Literature Festival
www.itef.com.tr
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istanbul_Tanp%C4%B1nar_Literature_Festival
 

Abraham path initiative. Is trying to inspire the opening of a cultural route following to the fout steps of prophet Abraham

woman human rights

Common project with COC-Netherland and Lambdaistanbul (Turkey).

These movements gain a sustainable quality together with local development plans and practices. Our organization is of vital importance for the region due to the need for development of the region where it was established. Developing joint projects with all people, especially local decision makers, implementing them in the region and adding positive value to the region have been determined as the main objective.

As a voluntary and participatory organisation, we conduct projects such as

Memorialisation projects for/with young people;

Trainings and meetings in the area of dealing with past;

Intercommunity historical dialogue projects

We do organise some international festivals by targeting peace building process within the whole southern caucasia, our neighbourhood.

Crafting Peace (http://www.facebook.com/pages/Crafting-Peace/543007839047222) aims at enhancing the economic development, the regional cooperation and reconciliation between the divided communities of Gyumri, Armenia and Kars, Turkey by involving the stone masons – one of the most high reputated artisan groups within their respected communities, into the revitalization and reconciliation process.
Youth Exchange projects:
Borderland 54000 is a youth exchange project which that took place from 1 to 10 september 2012
in Nancy during 18th Aye Aye Film Festival. The festival's area will become a meeting point for young people coming from 5 countries' border areas : Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Germany and
France. 25 people will take part in the project. They could be beginner or experienced journalists working on new media. They will meet to share their experience and build mutual and common projects.
Borderland 02763 will take place in Zittau, Germany on 3-14 July 2013 to give young people from EU and its border regions the possibility to explore the german-polish-czech border area with all its aspects: bridges and missing links, urban and rural development, young and old people, social and cultural projects.

KATADROM ARTS AND CULTURE PROJECT OF EXCHANGE
The Katadrom Arts and Culture Project of Exchange aims to stimulate cultural appreciation and integration among the international and Turkish students through the support of artistic and cultural creativity in all its expression and to encourage dialogue among communities.
The project offers a platform where exchange students from Turkey and all around the world can express themselves and share their artistic, cultural and social works and ideas, not only with an audience, but also with each other. It gives a chance to students to share and advertise their individual projects and support creation by providing them material, educational support and space to exhibit their works.
It gives the chance to participants from different backgrounds to familiarize themselves with the culture they temporarily live in, to transfer their own experiences, to contribute to the process of intercultural communication and dialogue through the activities of the project, to promote tolerance for different cultures once they are back in their own country, and to take a stance against discrimination.
By building bridges between youth from all over the word, Katadrom Arts and Culture Project of Exchange supports a better understanding of each other’s culture and of Turkish cultural heritage.
The Project is offering a wide range of network building studies, workshops, competitions and seminars led by professionals, from Turkey and abroad, who are engaged in the pursuit of artistic expression, in addressing social issues or cultural topics to develop an appreciation for different cultures. During the workshops, student participants will collaborate together to produce artistic works or social projects, which focus on bridging the divide between communities and raise the contemporary problems from their own society which affects them in their day to day life.