Turkish Greek Civic Dialogue Project

“Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue” is a demonstration project organized by AEGEE (Association des Etats Generaux des Etudiants de L’Europe – European Students’ Forum) and AEGEE-Ankara and financed by the European Commission. The overall project aims at fostering dialogue and relations between Turkish and Greek youth initiatives and university students, as well as carrying out institution building and networking to encourage the target group to designate further partnership projects between the youngsters of the two nation. We strongly believe that our project bears pivotal importance by focusing on youth by indicating a concrete contribution to the networking and development of dialogue between Greek and Turkish youth.

Related Topics:
AEGEE - European Commission - Turkish - Greek

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The project has launched in the year 2001 and includes various activities organized in partnership with Greek and Turkish non-governmental organizations. All the relevant activities under the scope of the project are being realized within the framework of civic integration concept. The project comprises a series of instisution-building, networking and training activities. The official opening of the project was realized thanks to the Rebuilding Communication event took place between 20-23 March 2003 in Sakarya and organized in partnership with AEGEE-Sakarya. The core event of the overall project, the Youth and Culture Festival-KayaFest- organized between 28 July-3 August 2003 in Fethiye-Kayak as followed by the academically-oriented symposium on Population Exchange organized in partnership with Foundation of Lausanne Emigrants between 7-8 November 2003 in Istanbul. The project will be completed after the organization of Project Final Conference scheduled to take place in Ankara, Middle East Technical University (METU) between 2-3-4 April 2004. All the outcomes obtained in the course of the project, together with session proceedings, recordings and visual materials will be included in the web site of the project and the Result Book, which will be distributed to relevant NGOs, associations, institutions, universities in Turkey, Greece and Europe. The Result Book will also harbour articles regarding Turkish-Greek dialogue from relevant academics and journalists. The basic objective of the project will be materialized through an online database of Turkish and Greek NGOs and youth initiatives including their presentation, fields of activity, past and future projects as well as contact addresses.

Related Topics:
2001 - Istanbul - Ankara

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The overall project is run by a Project Coordination team composed of 6 university students and AEGEE members in Ankara and Athens in coordination with ad hoc committees.

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