"Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue" is a demonstration
project and an integral part of the Civil Society Development Program (CSDP)
that was designated by the European Commission Representation to Turkey to be
implemented in Turkey. Under this specific topic, AEGEE wants to organise the
Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project, which aims at fostering relationships
between non-governmental organisations (NGOs) in Turkey and Greece, reinforcing
them by providing the opportunity to develop and organise partnership projects.
We strongly believe that it is of pivotal importance to contribute to the civic
dialogue between the two nations. To his end, we as AEGEE-Ankara developed an
umbrella project to be organised thanks to the funds amounting to 150,000 ?
raised by the European Commission.This project will mainly address to
non-governmental youth organisations (NGYOs) and NGOs of the two nation, Turkish
and Greek university students and the newly established Turkish and Greek AEGEE
locals in particular, together with all the European students in AEGEE network.
This project will also be targeted for today's experts, academicians,
journalists, media, local and governmental authorities by ensuring their full
participation to the events organised by presenting them the dialogue between
Turkish-Greek youth.Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project covers a two-year
period including various activities and events to take place in Turkey, as a
country benefiting from the MEDA Program, and to be organised in partnership
with miscellaneous Greek and Turkish NGOs. All the events, researches under this
umbrella project will be realised under the framework of civic integration
concept, the basic objective of the project. Bringing youth and NGOs together
with local citizens, government officials and media will contribute to civic
integration and will yield positive results in terms of providing the Turkish
and Greek youth learn more about the civil society and civic involvement which
will in turn improve communication and cooperation between Turkish and Greek
NGOs and university students. The Project includes a series of contact
building, networking and training activities as a preparatory period to be
followed by workshops on relations between governments and NGOs as a launching
event in the year 2003. The core event for the year 2003 will be a Youth
Festival including concerts, open-air movie sessions, exhibitions and several
workshops of artistic and cultural nature. In the Festival there will be an
info-fair where representatives from different Greek and Turkish NGOs will come
together and find opportunity to learn about each other's projects. There will
be panel sessions on compulsory population, which will be organised in
partnership with immigrant associations. Events under this umbrella project
will be included in a Result Book and a web page. Besides the
Result Book of the project, a comprehensive survey on the Civil Society in
Greece and Turkey will be conducted; the statistical results thereof will be
published together with the essays and articles from journalists and covered in
the Result Book. The Result Book will be distributed to various institutions,
universities, NGOS in Turkey and Greece together with European Union
institutions. An on-line NGO database providing us with information on various
Turkish and Greek NGOs and their projects will also be prepared. All the
above-mentioned results to be obtained throughout the project will be disclosed
with a final conference at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in
participation with local and national media, academicians, university students,
experts and governmental and local authorities, representatives from the
European Commission and from relevant Embassies.
Objective
AEGEE locals in Turkey and Greece realised the fact that the youth, as
tomorrow's decision-maker, needs to develop means and tools to work with each
other effectively. Therefore, our project "Turkish Greek Civic Dialogue" will
serve as an umbrella for the AEGEE network, various NGOs and university students
in Greece and Turkey, which will facilitate partnership projects in the region
as well as to contribute in fostering cooperation among different youth NGOs in
both countries through the establishment of a mutual understanding between Greek
and Turkish youth. By organising this project, we aim at reinforcing Turkish and
Greek NGOs, providing them with the opportunity to cooperate thanks to
partnership projects, giving them the idea and motivation to further their
cooperation and sustain their projects in the future by bringing them together
in various events. Within this context AEGEE network and locals in Greece and
Turkey will be the core stimulating actors of the newly established AEGEE locals
and NGYOs, NGOs and local citizens in various regions in Turkey and Greece.
Thanks to the events under this project, we have the purpose to contribute
contact-building activities between Turkish and Greek NGOs by establishing an
on-line NGO database that will provide information on the background, projects
and contact addresses of NGOs in Turkey and Greece.Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue
Project basically aims at reinforcing communication between NGOs in Turkey and
Greece, through bringing them together in various platforms. We have the desire
to ensure full participation of university students, student clubs, local
authorities, government officials, academicians, local and international media
to the whole project which will give them an opportunity to communicate and pave
the way for future partnerships. We believe this will also help government
officials and local authorities to realise the cooperation between NGOs in the
both nations.
By the practical implementation of the project, we aim at reinforcing the
organisational structures of NGOs in Turkey and Greece. Our purpose is to
provide NGOs that will take place in the project with internal training courses
covering project management, public relations (PR), fundraising (FR), budgeting,
reporting, past projects about Turkish-Greek related issues and information on
the European Commission funds and grants.
We have realised that there is not enough documentation and research on civil
society understanding both in Turkey and Greece. We have the objective to
prepare some kind of information package on Turkish-Greek relations,
Turkish-Greek related projects by Turkish and Greek NGOs. Greek NGOs carry out
their activities in more diverse fields and are more experienced and organised
when compared to the ones in Turkey. We intent to form a thematic committee that
will conduct researches on the understanding of civil society concept in Turkey
and Greece, prepare a survey documentation on their findings, prepare and
conduct a survey on the concept of civil society in Greece and Turkey and
extract statistical analysis of it. So as to make use of all the statistical
results and database, we intend to establish a Turkish-Greek documentation
centre or a library.
Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project is targeted mainly for the NGYOs and
university students in Turkey and Greece. As we have mentioned, AEGEE, an
experienced network will be the core stimulating agent in the project. There are
a lot of newly established AEGEE locals in the region having poor levels of
organisational capacity. Another thing is that AEGEE locals in the region do not
have sufficient networking and contacts with the other NGOs and NGYOs acting in
various fields in the region. Both in Greece and Turkey organisation of NGYOs is
not well structured. In Greece, there is a National Youth Council to which most
of the NGYOs in Greece are affiliated but when it comes to Turkey there is not
any institution or body, which serves as a networking umbrella among NGYOs
and/or miscellaneous youth societies. Moreover, university students and student
clubs represent the mainstream youth as well as future decision-makers. Their
involvement in civil society and in the activities organised by NGOs is of
pivotal importance. Thus thanks to our project we aim at accessing university
students, motivating them in a way to take part in civic initiatives, to take
part in activities promoting mutual understanding between Greece and Turkey, to
introduce them to various activities, organisations and university students in
Turkey and Greece. We strongly believe that bringing them together will
contribute in removing prejudices, to better present the history and culture of
the both nations to each other and to bring new perspective to Turkish-Greek
related issues.
Local citizens of the two country representing the core and grass root civil
society are also targeted for this project. Their interest and participation in
youth, NGOs, university students and activities thereof, will definitely
contribute to civic integration in two aspects. Youth will have the opportunity
to learn history, culture and traditions from the very local citizens, will be
hosted in local citizens houses one the one hand; local citizens will have the
opportunity to interact, share experiences, observe the vision of youth and
their importance in a society. To this end, we are planning to reach this grass
root population through our contacts, by promoting the project in all the
universities in Turkey and Greece thanks to AEGEE network and our contact
immigrant associations.
Academicians and experts from Greek and Turkish universities and various
institutions and unions are also targeted for this project. We strongly believe
that we will need thematic and academic insights for the events to be organised
under this specific project. To this end, academicians will provide us with
valuable contributions in terms of delivering lectures, assisting and
orienteering researchers in survey applications. They will also play important
role in dissemination of the effects of this project to universities and
university students. Local and governmental authorities will be invited to take
part to the events as well. With Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project we aim at
indicating the cooperation and partnership of youth and NGOs of the two nation
to relevant governmental authorities. We have the desire to be able reflect the
atmosphere of mutual understanding and integration between Turkish and Greek
community and youth to the politically oriented problems and issues as well.
Involvement and participation of local, national and a certain level of
international media and press will also be ensured with respect to disseminate
and promote the results of the project. For short, target group for this project
will include more than 3000 university student members of Turkish and Greek
AEGEE locals, approximately 5000 members of different NGOs carrying out
activities in various fields in Turkey and Greece, more than 10,000 university
students both in Greece and Turkey, 17.000 members of AEGEE network, the core
citizens and immigrants of the both community which have considerable place in
the whole population.
Detailed description of activities
A. PREPARATORY VISITS
Starting from October 2002, several trips to Greece and different regions of
Turkey will be conducted by the Project Team with a view to meet youth
organisations, present the project to them and ensure active participation of
other NGOs in the project. In Greece universities, university student clubs,
academicians from relevant departments, AEGEE locals, unions of NGOs including
Hellenic National Youth Council, Turkish Embassy to Greece, local authorities
and governmental bodies interested in the project, several media institutions
and correspondents will be visited to make the promotion of the project, to
ensure their participation, take their remarks and opinions, to distribute
survey questions and to multiply contact-building activities.
B- REBUILDING COMMUNICATION
Place of the event: Sakarya University, Sakarya, TURKEY
Time of the event: Month D
Participant number: 70 participants from Turkey and Greece
except for speakers
Organising Institution: AEGEE-Ankara, AEGEE-Sakarya in partnership with
various
Youth organisations
Improving communication between individuals and society is one of the
difficulties that democratic societies face. Enlargement and effectiveness of
civil society, which will be a part of democratic platform concerning the
relation and communication of individual with society and government, is of
pivotal importance for achieving full democracy. Another important fact is that
civil society will be able to be established thanks to democratic NGOs. We
believe that transparency and participatory democracy can also be ensured by
improving the relations and communication between NGOs and governments on
national and international platforms.
Results of researches indicate that both country citizens have wrong aspects in
terms of mutual understanding arising from political relations and lack of
communication between Turkey and Greece. To this end, his project aims to be a
starting point to eliminate lack of communication between NGOs within themselves
and governments, lead them share their opinions and further their communication.
We intent to organise activities under the framework of civic integration aiming
at fostering communication between NGOs and governments. Civic integration has a
vital position in terms of contact-building and networking. Departing from this
point of view, we want to create an environment where integration of civil
society with governments and media is accomplished, civic communication is
rebuilt.
Main activities of Rebuilding Communication, will be workshops dealing with
various aspects of communication among NGOs, and with the relations and
communication between governments, media and NGOs, panel discussions on national
television channels, social activities such as cocktail to take place at the
Esentepe Campus of Sakarya University. A total of 70 participants are going to
participate in the event from Turkey and Greece. University Students, NGOs'
members and government representatives will also be invited besides the
speakers.
Workshops will cover and stimulate discussions on various aspects of
communication that affect civic integration. Six workshops have been designated
by AEGEE-Sakarya and AEGEE-Ankara members in consultation with academicians from
relevant departments and interested NGOs. We are planning to enrich our event
with one or more workshop topics which will be determined later after building
contacts with interested Greek NGOs and upon consultation with the thematic
committee to be established for the whole project and academicians.
The designated six workshops will be on:
¨ Communication between NGOs and Governments
- This workshop will stimulate discussion on relations of and communication
between NGOS and governments. Approach of governments to NGOs and policies on
will dealt with one the one hand and expectations of NGOs from governments,
impact of government policies on NGOs will be discussed on the other hand. From
time to time, NGOs become face to face with barriers arising from government
policies and regulations especially when they are to organise large-scale events
and carry out activities. We all know how effective the political decisions can
be in the both country. This workshop will be realised in participation with
government officials and relevant local and national authorities both from
Turkey and Greece. With this workshop we aim at providing governments to revise
their approach towards NGOs and their activities.
¨ Break Through Borders:
This workshop aims at discussing the common goals of NGOs in removing lack of
communication between the two nations and trying to find reasonable solutions to
lack of communication.
¨ Media and Civil Society:
In this workshop we are planning to stimulate discussions and examine the
effects of media on the two countries' policies and on civil society; as well as
media's way of demonstrating facts related to policies to the public. Media is
a strong means of communication, it is even stronger when it comes to
Turkish-Greek relations. We strongly believe that media serves as a
communication bridge between governments and civil society in both countries.
For all these reasons we have chosen to organise 'Media and Civil Society '
workshop. We will also ensure the participation of representatives from the
European Centre For Common Ground (ECCG), an NGO which has organised a
Turkey-Greece Civic Dialogue with activities dealing with the effect of media on
Turkish-Greek relations. The results ECCG obtained during the project they
organised will be disclosed and discussed in the workshop as well.
¨ Youth's Role in Turkish-Greek Friendship:
This workshop aims to stimulate discussions on how youth can influence
Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue, how they can be active and improve friendship and
mutual understanding, and how they can take their part in decision-making
process in this respect. Bearing in mind that, it is today's youth who will be
tomorrow's decision-makers. That entails having enough information, extensive
research and communication. That in turn requires their participation to such
kind of organisations and start to improve their approach on related matters.
Representatives from NGOs that previously worked on projects relating to
Turkish-Greek relations will be invited, participation of academicians and
conflict resolutionists will be ensured with a view to obtain concrete
recommendations to enhance youth's and civil society's role in Turkish-Greek
civic integration.
¨ Effects of Education on Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue
In this workshop impacts of education with respect to communication will be
analysed. This workshop will be realised in participation with NGYOs,
university student, academicians and representatives from Turkish and Greek
History Foundations, Turkish and Greek Education Foundations. At the end of the
workshop, participants will prepare proposals concerning educational regulations
which will improve civic dialogue.
¨ Public Achievement
This workshop has the specific aim to introduce and propose using Public
Achievement initiative in communication between Turkish and Greek civil society.
Basic principles and related projects of Public Achievement initiative will be
presented and discussions will be stimulated on how to make use of this
initiative in terms of improving communication between Turkish and Greek NGOs
and activating them to organise partnership projects. We will have facilitators/
moderators from academicians from universities in the United States of America
and Greece to deliver the Public Achievement initiative to Turkish and Greek
NGOs. University students, NGOs and academicians from the two country will take
part as participants.
Young people today have few opportunities to really be involved in shaping
the world around them. In the public achievement projects, people of all age
groups work together with others, meet challenges and solve problems in a
collective manner. Learning from each other is the basis of citizenship and
democracy. Public Achievement is an international youth initiative focused on
the most basic concepts of citizenship, democracy and public work. Public
Achievement draws on the talents and desires of ordinary people to build a
better world and to create a different kind of politics. There are no
pre-qualifications; all people, irrespective of their of age, nationality, sex,
religion, income, education are citizens.
Representatives of public achievement work with kindergartens, teenagers and
adults around the world. When things are important to you it's easy to get
excited, become passionate and work hard.
The most important lessons of democracy come from doing public work; from
solving problems and finding ways to cooperate with people who are different and
can disagree. When we do, we all learn from each other. This is the kind of
politics that everyone can do, not just politicians. Public Achievement provides
the framework. We establish sites with the cooperation of schools and youth
programs, recruit and train site coordinators and coaches, and work to draw
young people to the program.
Public Achievement is about discovery. About young people working as citizens to
discover how democracy empowers ordinary people to do extraordinary things.
Our aim is to make public achievement program in a practical way between two
country citizens during the workshop.
Participants to all the above mentioned projects will be chosen from the
applications received from university students, various NGOs and NGYOs in Turkey
and Greece giving the priority to newly established ones. Academicians from
relevant departments, representatives from relevant foundations and institutions
in Greece and Turkey as well as governmental and local authorities will be
invited to take part.
We will pay special attention as for the selection of workshop
moderators/facilitators. We will promote the project in universities, contact
with academicians from relevant departments, present the project to pertinent
foundations and institutions in Turkey and Greece. We will also invite people
who are experienced in and have good contacts with Turkish-Greek NGOs such as
our partner Foundation of Lausanne Treaty Emigrants. A special committee from
AEGEE-Ankara and AEGEE-Sakarya members in consultation with the thematic
committee of the project will determine the moderators. We have very good
contacts with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Education, Ministry
of Culture, Ministry of Tourism and Greece Embassy to Turkey. As for Greece, we
will receive assistance from AEGEE locals in Greece and use their contacts in
the government. Our partner FLTE will also use its own contacts with mayors and
governors from different regions of Greece.
The overall event will launch with a ceremony where two government
representative, one from Greece one from Turkey will deliver the opening
speeches. After the finalization of all workshops there will be an evaluation
session where results obtained in the workshops will be presented. After the end
of the workshop sessions, workshop participants and academicians as well as
interested government representatives will attend panel discussions to be
broadcasted live on a national broadcasting company in Turkey and will discuss
the results of the workshop results and the civic integration-basic theme of the
Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project- together with Turkish citizens and
participating members from Greek organisations.
D.BALKAN FESTIVAL
Place of the event: Fethiye, TURKEY
Time of the event: August 2003
Participant number: 80 workshop participants, more than 5000 festival
participants
Organising Institution: AEGEE-Ankara in collaboration with several Turkish
and Greek NGOs and Turkish and Greek university student clubs
The highlight of the year 2003 will be a Youth Festival organised by AEGEE-Ankara
and several partner associations from Turkey and Greece and it will take place
in the beautiful south coast city Fethiye, several workshops and jam sessions
will be held in Kayaköy, an ancient Greek village in Fethiye. The festival will
include concerts, open-air movie sessions, exhibitions and workshops. We are
going to enrich the festival by ensuring the participation of university student
clubs of two countries, including sport activities and team-building games,
workshops on psychology, dance theatre, visual arts and jazz, and including
multimedia shows. By means of this festival, AEGEE wants to demonstrate the
richness of the arts and culture of the two cultures to each other, stimulating
a mutual respect and understanding. The Youth Festival will host especially
young musicians, players and dancers from Greece and Turkey.
The Festival will launch with an info fair where representatives of Greek and
Turkish NGOs will present their associations and projects to others, this will
help their integration and will pave the way for prospective partnership
projects.
Concerts will be by amateur student bands as well as professional Turkish and
Greek artists performing arts belonging to common culture. Jazz will be the core
of the festival with concerts and workshops by professional jazz artists and
associations from Turkey and Greece. In the open-air movie sessions
Turkish-Greek joint movies will be presented.
Thematic aspect of the festival will base on the workshops that will be of
artistic and cultural nature. These workshops will enable the participants to
use their own creativity and improve their artistic skills. The participants of
the Youth Festival will be divided into four workshops groups according to their
preferences in their applications and will present their project to a wide
audience.
Workshops will be on:
Dance Theatre: In this workshop participants will have the chance to improve and
enjoy their dancing skills thanks to the training by professional dancers. They
are expected to work for the play and make rehearsals that will be selected by
the dancers during the workshop and they will perform the play on the closing
day of the festival. Dance clubs of Turkish and Greek universities will also be
invited as participant and trainer.
Visual Arts and Documentary :
The visual arts and documentary workshop participants will work on a specific
project during the festival. Participants will prepare a documentary of the
festival by using special effects, in order to deliver certain messages to the
public. The documentary will be supported with some multimedia effects and will
be presented to everybody on the closing day of the festival. In this workshop
participants will learn how to use and create effects with hand-camera as well
as creation of multimedia shows.
Jazz:
This workshop to be given by professional jazz musicians will aim at enriching
the music and jazz knowledge of the participants as well as motivating them to
create jazz composition and/ or perform existing Turkish and Greek jazz work of
arts. This workshop will be conducted by lectures on history and concepts of
jazz music as well as jam sessions to be performed by Greek and Turkish jazz
musicians.
Psychology:
This workshop will include Greek psychology academicians and psychology students
as well as Turkish academicians and psychology students and the related NGOs.
There will be researches on the relations of Turkish and Greek citizens after
the two saddening earthquakes the two nations experienced subsequently. We will
look insight how this factor affected both nations in psychological manner and
how it contributed to warming of relations.
D. POPULATION EXCHANGE:
Place of the event: Istanbul
Time of the event: month 3, Conference in Istanbul
Participant number: 30
Organising Institution: AEGEE-Ankara, Foundation of Lausanne Treaty
Emigrants (FLTE)
As a consequence of the 1920-22 war between Turkey and Greece, two governments
of the term signed an agreement on January 30, 1923 in Lausanne, Switzerland
concerning a compulsory exchange of population. As a part of the Lausanne
Treaty, this agreement stipulated that Muslim population in Greece shall migrate
to Turkey and Orthodox population in Turkey shall migrate to Greece. Although
there were exceptions in terms of geographical distribution, (Muslims in Western
Thrace and Orthodox population in Istanbul were exempt).
First and third articles of this agreement are particularly important for the
lives of about two million people from both sides:
Article 1: As from the May 1, 1923, there shall take place a compulsory exchange
of Turkish nationals of Greek Orthodox religion established in Turkish
territory, and of Greek nationals of the Muslim religion established in Greek
territory. These persons shall not return to live in Turkey or Greece
respectively without the authorisation of the Turkish Government or of the Greek
Government respectively.
Article 3: Those Greeks and Muslims who have already, and since the 18th October
1912, left the territories the Greek and Turkish inhabitants of which are to be
respectively exchanged, shall be considered as included in the exchange provided
for in Article 1.
The above mentioned mass population movement caused unprecedented consequences
in terms of formation of modern Turkey and Greece Today one out of three of
Greek population and one out of ten Turkish population is immigrant. That is to
say it is estimated that about twenty percent of the present-day Turkish
population and more than a quarter of the present-day Greek population have been
affected from this tragic event which took place in the beginning of the 20th
century.
It is now almost eight decades since the population exchange, and not much
effort has been exerted to remove the bitter memories of war during that time.
To this end, as descendants of the people who have been settled to Turkey, and
as an NGO which has been working on exchange of population, that have
established good contacts with the Minor Asia NGOs and other immigrant
associations in Greece, that have organised immigrant meetings and gatherings in
various cities both in Turkey and Greece, we want to create an environment of
"Peace of Culture" through bringing this core population together and fostering
their civic integration and communication with the youth, NGOs and citizens in
Turkey and Greece.
Our objectives are:
- Assisting the youth of both nations to discover their similarities,
- Fostering cooperation and solidarity among NGOs of both nations
- Creating a peaceful environment in the South-Eastern Europe which will be
constitute model for Europe and the world,
- Creating a culture of peace on the both sides of Aegean Sea, which will in
turn contribute in eliminating prejudices between the two nation.
We aim to make people know each other, discover that their similarities are much
more than their differences, we believe that solution of the current problems is
not impossible for the people who know each other well. We know from our
experiences that descendants of the people who were subject to the
population-exchange are usually the most affectionate in both societies. Hence,
we believe that it is a good idea to focus our attention to these parts of both
societies. As descendants of the people who have been settled to Turkey, our aim
is to create an environment where peace prevails in this part of Europe.
Due to the nature of our objectives, our target is the entire population of the
two nations.
We will use our relationships in the press both for announcing the panels as
well as broadcasting them partly or fully in radios and TVs.
The target group for essay contest is the university students in both countries.
We will request the AEGEE organisations of both countries to distribute the
winning essays in the universities. We believe that it will be functional for
them to refresh their contacts with the students.
In the course of the project, we plan to organise a series of panels with the
participation of journalists, academicians and such effective persons from
Turkey, Greece and other nations who have studied the 1923 compulsory population
exchange and who are willing to contribute to the objectives of the project.
4 panel sessions concerning "Compulsory Population Exchange" will be held in
Istanbul with the participants from Turkey and Greece who have studied the event
and its consequences. Associations of immigrants and AEGEE members in Turkey and
Greece will also be invited to participate and contribute to the panels. Four
panel sessions will be organised in this event with the following topics and
participants:
Compulsory migration in 1923: History and Social Studies
Compulsory migration in 1923 : Literature
Compulsory migration in 1923: Cultural monuments and artefacts
Compulsory migration in 1923: NGOs on both sides of the sea
Expected results
"Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project" is targeted mainly for Turkish and Greek
AEGEE locals, the whole AEGEE network, Turkish and Greek NGYOs. It will also
address to university students, academicians, various NGOs, government
officials, local authorities, journalists, different institutions and civil
society in broader terms.
There were exchange programs and co-organised events between Turkish and Greek
locals in the past. However, there has always been the desire to organise events
having larger extent traditionally between the locals. From this point of view,
"Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project" will serve as an umbrella project and a
platform to once again bring Turkish and Greek locals, facilitate their
partnership projects as well as by providing them with organisational skills and
experience. They will be furnished with office equipment and technical
assistance to be funded under this project and this will improve their
managerial capacity as well.
Apart from practical experience, the overall project will help Turkish and Greek
locals to learn about various different NGOs other than AEGEE circles carrying
out their activities in Turkey and Greece. AEGEE locals will come together with
different NGOs in different platforms, interaction and communication of them
will definitely motivate them for new ideas and projects. Turkish and Greek
locals will also be provided with the opportunity to learn more about each
other's culture and way of life in detail which will have a considerable effect
in eliminating prejudices between the two nations youth.
Academicians will also come together in various environments both with
university students and their colleagues. The will provide each party with
necessary information of scientific nature and this will be reflected in
experiences. For example, Turkish academicians will be able to learn more about
the Community education programs and will disseminate information to students in
Turkish universities.
University students will also find the chance to visit the other country, meet
and discuss with university students and government officials. That will improve
their historical and cultural knowledge and again help eliminate prejudices.
Government officials will be invited to all the events and this will represent
them the cooperation of Turkish and Greek youth and NGOs. Their contribution and
support to these kinds of projects will increase. They will also be provided
with information on the Community Education Programs, EC funded projects.
As various NGOs from both Turkish and Greek part are expected to participate in
the events, and thanks to our partner NGOs in this project, the promotion of
this project will take place and create a positive atmosphere in civil society.
Publications and other outputs:
The Turkish Greek Civic Dialogue will pave the way between the active students
of Greece and Turkey towards partnerships on a greater extent. Therefore it is
very important that the experiences encountered during the project will be
shared with other organisations. The Project Team will pay special attention to
gather all reports and material produced during the events and they will
disseminate the final reports of the project through the website of the project
as well as through the result brochures published.
The Result Book will cover all the events and activities organised under the
Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project by providing the details of workshop
topics, discussions, orientation materials as well as the statistical data
derived by the comprehensive survey to be conducted on civil society in Turkey
and Greece in addition to articles and essays by noted Turkish-Greek
journalists. The circulation of the Result Book is planned to be 2000 copies.
Web-page of the project will again give information about all the events under
this umbrella project, providing implementation, program and contacts of the
project, links and will include the NGO on-line database. NGO on-line database
will encompass information on various Turkish and Greek NGOs such as their
history, fields of activity, past and present projects, legal registry which
will serve as a cyber platform for NGOs to learn about each other and enable
future partnership projects.
In addition to proper reporting of all actions, the Project Team will conduct a
statistical analysis on the expectations of the participants and if they are
fulfilled; on the evaluation of each lecture, workshop or other components of
the event and on the practical aspects related to its organisation. This
analysis will guide the upcoming activities within and outside the scope of the
Project.
