Youth and Rural Development Model Erasmus Project

Project Title

Youth and Rural Development Model

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2020

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: International cooperation, international relations, development cooperation; Rural development and urbanisation; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

As KOP Youth Association, we will realize the project in partnership with KOP Regional Development Administration, Caribbean Education and Culture Foundation and SCAMBIEUROPEI Foundation. We will carry out all of the activities to be carried out within the scope of the project with a participatory understanding with our coordination team, which includes representatives from all our partners.

As KOP Youth Association, we will establish a 2-storey association with a working area of ​​200 square meters while conducting our current project activities. We will ensure that our association volunteers and project coordination team take on roles and take part in the process of carrying out the activities while the work is being carried out. By creating a separate working area for our project, we will ensure that the team coordinates the project and distributes the tasks within the scope of the project.

As KOP Youth Association, we implemented a national project called Youth and Rural Development in 2019 together with our partner KOP Regional Development Administration and GAP Youth Association. Within the scope of the project, we prepared a final declaration by revealing the expectations and needs of the youth to be included in the agricultural and rural development process. After the positive outcomes of our project and its contribution to the policies of our country, we decided to develop a model for youth to be a part of rural life and to implement this model together with our partner KOP Regional Development Administration.

our most fundamental problem is youth and employment in Turkey. In 2019, youth unemployment in our country increased to 27.4%. This is the highest figure in our history. ensure that part of the lives of youth at the countryside In particular we provide the orientation of agricultural production will allow evaluation of both our assessment of the huge youth potential in our country and fertile soil will reduce our external dependence on food this way in Turkey, and we will be part of a process ourselves, we have enough.

Our universities are in our 81 provinces in Turkey and can read every young college wanting. But the main problem is that young people see university as the gateway to finding a job and they are not entrepreneurs. We need to put forward an approach that encourages the entrepreneurship of the youth and that the youth can take the initiative and participate in the production process. Unfortunately, when we don’t do this, after graduating from the university where thousands of dreams go, the youth leaves their diplomas in exchange for their dreams and then becomes unhappy that they cannot realize their dreams in life.

In project scope; youth will have the opportunity to see the good practices of young people in the Netherlands. Young people in the Netherlands came to Turkey will contribute to our country, we want to put forward applications. the sharing of best practices between countries and the approach of the Netherlands who are successful on developing a model for inclusion in the production process of the rural youth with the reflection of a different country issues we both projects in a stepwise manner well both in Turkey to extend towards the international implementation of our project process that we started from the local and model a process for the liberalization and implementation in our country will be initiated.

KOP KOP as the Youth Association and the Administration will be responsible for the coordination of activities within Turkey. The demonstration of the model, in particular Turkey and KOP can be extended after being applied to the region and supported the process will be carried out by us.

coming from the Netherlands under the project to Turkey and has done work in the field of rural development or located in the rural development process, get to see the best practices of young people in our country who want and institutions and their visit to see the work related to agricultural production in Turkey, site visits, university visits together we planned. Participants’ accommodation, meals, meetings will be held and we will provide Adjusting the hall to participate in the planned program in Turkey met with the association as KOP Administration.

Our partner Caribbean Education and Culture Foundation and Caribbean Youth and Sports Foundation He will be responsible for our study visit to the city of Martin and the process of seeing good practices there. Our partner will carry out the process of accommodation, reception, setting up meeting halls, determining rural development models to be visited, and setting up appointments with good practices and institutions to be visited.

As the KOP Youth Association, we will provide the model to be implemented as a model with the call of the KOP Administration Presidency after the project.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 50235 Eur

Project Coordinator

Kop Genclik Dernegi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• KOP Regional Development Administration
• SCAMBIEUROPEI