NEW YOUTH NEW HOMELAND Erasmus Project

Project Title

NEW YOUTH NEW HOMELAND

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: Migrants’ issues; Access for disadvantaged; Youth (Participation, Youth Work, Youth Policy)

Project Summary

One of the most current and crucial problems of Turkey and Europe is the integration of young refugees who have been forced to flee his or her country because of persecution, war, or violence. Turkey hosts the largest number of refugees in the world and its response to refugees has been generous and positive.

According to UNHCR figures Refugees and asylum-seekers in Turkey including almost 3.6 million Syrian nationals and close to 330,000 registered refugees and asylum-seekers of other nationalities. Over 98% of Syrian refugees live across Turkey in 81 provinces. It is indicated in UNHCR’s situation report that the total number of refugees in Turkey hits almost 4 Million, close to 1.4 million of them are under 15 years old, and over 800,000 are aged between 15 and 24. Almost 1 Million refugees are Youth and facing many challenges in this new environment.

The integration process of young refugees needs to be supported with life skills such as strategic thinking, goal setting, problem-solving, leadership, entrepreneurship, and effective communication and networking. The new generation of young refugees entering Turkey must be competent at being part of a team and consequently knowing an effective team culture and taking initiative in an efficient relationship.

The main objective of this project is to create voluntary based, collective organizations where the young refugees have the opportunity to take in part in learning, training, teaching activities, creating an e-learning platform, e-guidebook, and research that will serve as a tool to ease their integration process into the new community.

These collective organizations at each partner not only stay in close contact to support each other but also spread the word about this project to other organizations in their countries. This Project’s curriculum tackles some of the most important surviving skills.
This project aims to target young refugees to involve them in a program focusing on building leadership, entrepreneurship, and career development skill trainings. Our learning, teaching, and training activities will create leaders and entrepreneurs of young refugees by promoting them with leadership and career skills. 30 young refugees will develop new skills that ease their integration process and help them to become a valuable asset in the job market. They become an example for other young refugees and inspire them to show their full potential. Two Training Activities targeting different skills in accordance with the themes of them will be organized. Namely: the first training will focus on leadership skills, while the second one will be on entrepreneurship skills and career development skills.

In general, the call for application will be made public at each partner and young refugees will be invited to participate. The selected young refugees will be asked to commit to this project. Throughout the project cycle, young refugees will gain increased awareness about leadership, entrepreneurship, and career development skills, and develop those skills further to reconcile their personal aspirations with the demands of society.

Before we started to write the proposal, the partners were consulted as to their needs and priorities. These priorities were researched and need analysis was conducted to find out which problem was really pressing. After that, we worked on the schedule and framework of the training activities in accordance with the expertise of the partners involved.

The project also aims to yield 3 intellectual outputs: Academic Research, e-Guidebook for Young Refugees and an E-Learning Platform. The creation of an E-Learning Platform for the young refugees will ensure continuous support and communication among them and will be a venue for future the young refugees to benefit from. We believe that this project would generate more competent young refugees who could be more effective and efficient in their future professional lives in a world, which gets more interdependent every day.

In order to reach a wide range of objectives, building the right partner structure is key to reach desired results without compromising quality. Therefore, we bring together partners from different backgrounds. Our partner structure involves Non-governmental organizations in Turkey and the EU, university, and software-media company.

Our planned Multiplier events will served as result of our project as well. With multiplier events we plan to disseminate our results with academia, private sector, governmental institutions, grassroot non-governmental organizations and other relevant parties. Introduction about each intellectual output, the purpose of their use, and areas where they can be utilized will be shared with the audience that will be composed of scholars, university representatives, students, NGO representatives and other stakeholders.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 142180 Eur

Project Coordinator

Genclik Arastirmalari Dernegi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• AdventureCreative Reklam ve İletişim hizmetleri Ticaret LTD ŞTI
• SOCIAL YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CIVIL NONPROFIT SOCIETY
• Rawdanur Dernegi
• MUGLA SITKI KOCMAN UNIVERSITY
• Birlesmis Siviller Dernegi
• Metamo Education Center