GENÇ GİRİŞİM EĞİTİM GENÇLIK VE SPOR KULÜBÜ DERNEĞİ

GENC GIRISIM EGITIM GENCLIK VE SPORTS CLUB “Young Initiative Education, Youth, And Sports Club Association” was registered in March 2015. The organization's activities are focused on six aspects relevant to youth development: * sports * education * intercultural integration * social entrepreneurship * develop of IT technologies and IT learning methods * agriculture-permaculture As part of its sports activities, the organization runs sections for athletics, martial arts, gymnastics, basketball, volleyball, football, triathlon, and swimming. The club runs sections that include all young people interested in various forms of sport, including people with disabilities, from mental retardation, learning difficulties, from diverse social and ethnic backgrounds, in difficult financial situations. The organization's activities are aimed at raising the chances of young people by developing the necessary voluntary features and enabling them to acquire a high level of soft key skills in social and professional life. In addition, through sports activities, physical activity is promoted among young people and the habits necessary to lead a healthy lifestyle are instilled in them. YISC also helps adults who have given up active working to be fully involved in the sports activities. As part of activities related to the informal education of young people, the organization's tasks include supporting young people in developing key skills in the labor market and providing support in forming the professional path of young people's development. In addition, the organization conducts classes in the use of digital technologies as part of informal education classes. The organization's goal is to regularly improve the quality of youth work by initiating cooperation between NGOs responsible for non-formal education and educational institutions at regional, national, and international levels. The organization creates space for the exchange of experiences and good practices in the field of non-formal learning techniques, the result of joint work of didactic environments, employees, and youth leaders associated with the organization and with its domestic and foreign partners, is to improve existing youth work programs and implement new solutions aimed at to improve the quality of youth work. The organization also conducts training, conferences and seminars (in stationary form and on-line) on the subject of youth work. As part of activities related to the aspect of intercultural integration, the organization conducts numerous international exchanges and programs for youth mobility, financed, among others from the funds of the Erasmus + program. As part of international cooperation, the organization cooperates with NGOs from Spain, Italy, Poland, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Macedonia, Tunisia, Algeria, Russia, Greece, and Ukraine. The topics of organized exchanges are oriented around the issues of learning about different cultures and religions, promoting respect and tolerance, supporting socially marginalized youth, immigrants, and refugees. YISC is a Host Entrepreneurs for carrying out a cooperation project in Ankara with the Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs Programme is financed by the European Commission. Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs helps provide aspiring European entrepreneurs with the skills necessary to start and/or successfully run a small business in Europe. Those participants were able to start-up, learn new skills, create new products and services and expand to new markets The part of the organization is IT trainers, who are active in the field of preparing new methods and tools for using new technologies in formal and non - formal education methods. The organization is a leader of the local network, which connects teachers, schools, universities, NGOs, and private companies active in the field of new technologies, the main goal of the network is the exchange of good experience how to use new technologies in education and develop of new education methods. The organization is accredited by EVS (European Voluntary Service) and ESC (European Solidarity Corps). Finally, it has direct and practical experience in the analysis, evaluation, or impact assessment of cultural policies at local, regional, national, and/or European levels; it can compare and consolidate the existing