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Youth Eurasia was created in 2013 by the ‘EU Projects Student Club’ members of Marmara University in Istanbul. The vision of the Youth Eurasia is creating awareness, raising consciousness and provide self development among the young people and society through national and international social activities. MAIN ACTIVITIES: Erasmus+ Training Courses, Erasmus+ Youth Exchanges, Informal Events and Social Responsibility Projects.

NATIONAL ACTIVITIES Concerts: Organizing concerts in child protecton agencies, elderly homes in volunteering based. Help campaign for Syrian Refugees: Raising awareness and disagning help campaign for Syrian refugees among the university students in Istanbul Planting activities: Encouraging young people to participate in TEMA’s annual planting activities. Informal Events: Introducing EU opportunuties such as EVS, Erasmus Mundus, TC etc and encouraing young people to take action

ERASMUS+ EXPERIENCES ‘’NATURE OF EVS’’ Erasmus+ Training Course Partnership Olomouc, Czech Republic, 24th to 31st of July 2015 Youth Eurasia has arranged workshops and outdoor activities during the Training. It proposed learning experience based on nature, self development and spirituality to all people who are involved with EVS

‘FAIL FORWARD’’ Erasmus+ Training Course Partnership Dublin, Ireland 25 October - 1 November 2015 ‘FAIL FORWARD LAB’ is an Erasmus+ TC that implemented on the quote of 'Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better‘ phase. The main aim was experience and explore what it means to embrace 'failing forward' as an essential part of self-directed learning as a learner. Youth Eurasia has arranged and managed a ‘Flash Mob’ activity during the Training as well as group activities and workshops.

‘RITCHY’’ Erasmus+ Youth Exchange Partnership Vilnius, Lithuania 30th July – 8th August 2016 The idea of ‘RITCHY’ was breaking of stereotypes and prejudicies from the actualities of these days in many aspect of life such as religion, identity, technology and migration. Youth Eurasia was responsible about the topic of ‘Islamaphobia’ and made presentations as well as group activities. Team has introduced ‘Mevlana’ who is a wise islamic philosopher, and influenced his wisdom about world peace.

‘Online Tools in Youth Work’’ Training Course Partnership Kopaonik, Serbia 20th to 26th of January 2017 The main idea for this project is to promote existing and apply new tools for improving the quality of youth work and non-formal learning. Empower the youth organisations to more efficiently and extensively use online tools in their activities. www.youth-work.me implemented during the Training Course and Youth Eurasia has presented the some of online tools. There are plenty of useful online tools in website.

”FACILITAID!” Erasmus+ Training Course Partnership Lillyhammer, Norway 20 – 28 February 2017 An international training course for youth workers on how to design, facilitate and evaluate meaningful educational activities for young people. Practical informations such as ‘cooking agenda’, ‘running workshops’, ‘effective NFE methods’ etc had been practised during the TC. Youth Eurasia arranged expiremental workshops, intercultural night, blogpost and a movie about the project.

”Stories We Tell” Erasmus+ Training Course Partnership February 27 - March 12 2017 - Bernay en Ponthieu, France ‘Stories We Tell’ invited artists and youth workers from various corners of Europe to meet and exchange on writing and illustration about local legends & myths as an educational tool. Youth Eurasia introduced ‘Nasreddin Hoca’ short stories as well as many legends and local tales. Youth Eurasia also realized a workshop about ‘Turkish Coffe fortune telling’ culture as a tool of Storytelling.

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”Art of Recycling” Erasmus+ Youth Exchange as Host Organisation Izmit, Turkey 19 – 28 January 2018 Art of Recycling is a youth exchange gathering 33 young people from 5 countries (Turkey, Italy, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Croatia), which will take place in Izmit (Turkey) in January 2018. The project is focused on creative recycling in combination with media and promotion. The aim of the project is to encourage young people to actively contribute to environmental protection by recycling and re-using old material in a fun and creative way. What is more, the participants will gain the skills to create video and photo tutorials and to promote them on the internet so that the creative recycling techniques will be shared with wider audience.