AEGEE-İstanbul

AEGEE / European Students’ Forum is one of Europe’s biggest interdisciplinary student organizations, operating with a network of 170 interconnected cities, open to students and young people from all faculties and disciplines. Founded in 1985 in Paris, today AEGEE has grown to a Network of 13000 friends, who realize thematic projects and intercultural exchanges together, and turn young people into active citizens by working on a socially, economically, and politically integrated Europe together. AEGEE strives for a democratic, diverse and borderless Europe, which is socially, economically, and politically integrated, and values the participation of young people in its construction and development. Istanbul Avrupa Genclik Forumu Dernegi, known as AEGEE-Istanbul, was officially founded in 1994 in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2004, AEGEE-Istanbul played a key role with other AEGEE branches of Turkey in bringing the Erasmus Programme to Turkey by Socrates Programme. Since the beginning, AEGEE-Istanbul has been a part of different activities on youth development and youth participation, thematic events such as Summer University with at least 25 participants, conferences, intercultural exchanges to empower democracy, participation, and civic education. As a non-governmental and non-profit organization.