CARPE DIEM – Slovakia
ProAtlântico – Associação Juvenil – Portugal
Canakkale Koza Youth Association was founded in March 2010 and grown up as an active, energetic, nonprofit youth organization that provides intercultural learning opportunities to help the youngsters in developing their knowledge and at the same time offering a wide diversity of experiences.
Çanakkale, a city and region of education, culture and history, is located in the northwestern part of the Turkey. Çanakkale has lands in both Asia and Europe just like Istanbul, which is a well-known city in the world. This specialty is an extra reason for its beauty. Our main priority is the participation of youngsters to local, national and global problems and to teach how to react to those problems and work to solve them.
Even its name has a youth tag; KOZA is a volunteer-based organization (aged 7-77) and trying to be in various fields, not only youth. Such as: giving free swimming/scuba diving courses for disabled people, preparing campaigns for pollution and climate change, organizing language clubs, preparing workshops for children in Roma Communities and so on. We can’t say, what are our main working topics. Because with the participation of every new volunteer; we are growing and becoming more diversified. We are preparing different trainings, workshops and seminars; to help volunteers develop their personal and professional skills, to work as a team and to evaluate their ideas to a project. That’s why every new volunteer means a new topic/area for us to work on.
Except our local and national projects and activities, we are also experienced on several programs such as Leonardo, Grundtvig, Youth in Action and Erasmus +. We have been supporting intercultural awareness and international mobility. Apart from EVS in the last years, we have organized and participated in more than 50 youth exchanges, Youth Initiatives, Youth Democracy projects, and training projects. We are working actively in the field of EVS, so we are proud to say that we have sent more than 200 volunteers in the frame of the program and successfully hosted volunteers from different European countries.