Active Euro-Youth

Active Euro-Youth is a non-governmental and non-profit youth organization founded in 2012 as a student association in Istanbul by university students who have considerable experience on international youth projects and aims to contribute to the social and personal development of local youth.. AEY means more than 240 members involved in local and international youth activities since its establishment.
We aims to support the active involvement of young people in various areas of public life; to promote personal development and democratic citizenship, volunteering and youth mobility; sport and healthy lifestyle; to support the development of the abilities and potential of young people from different social and ethnic groups, and young people with disabilities through different methods, such as sport, music, theatre, dance, painting and coding. In order to realize our objectives, we cooperate with families, local authorities, primary schools, high schools and universities and we develop projects with them. Besides, we also support the active involvement of them to promote personal development and democratic citizenship, volunteering and youth mobility; sport and healthy lifestyle; to support the development of the abilities and potential of young people from different social and ethnic groups, and young people with disabilities. To realize that, AEY conducts both international and domestic projects.

AEY works on local issues. Under the roof of AEY, volunteer university students provide academic mentorship to youngsters such as help to their lessons especially for high school exam and university entrance exam. Besides, AEY gives algorithm and coding courses to students from kindergarden to highschool especially about Scratch and Ardunio and technology integration courses to teachers such as Multimedia Design, Educational Games Design and WEB 2.0 tools. AEY also publishes a montly fanzine which involves several subjects namely health, democracy and involvement, technology and some free topics written by volunteer writers who are active in the association.
AEY is also a sender and a host organization for youngsters to help them to improve their competences; become aware of socially relevant topics/thematic areas, discover new cultures, habits and life-styles, strengthen values like solidarity, democracy, friendship and so on. In aspect of international level, we have sent hundreds of young people to the projects all around the Europe. Besides, we hosted 4 projects in Turkey about, health-healthy life-style, entrepreneurship, rural development, culture, involvement and human rights in Turkey.

AEY aims at:
- Fostering Euro-Mediterranean cooperation by specialized projects and policy formulations;
- Increasing civil society's role in youth policy development and in implementation in the European and Mediterranean countries;
- Contributing to personal development of youngsters;
- Raising awareness on respect, empathy and tolerance between youngsters;
- Promoting intercultural dialogue as a tool for solving common issues and conflicts;
- Focusing on issues related to human rights and acceptance of personal limitations;
- Emphasizing social cohesion and its role in developing multicultural communities.

Our idea is to develop our city youth community, to grow young persons as strong personalities with good social and entrepreneurship skills and to have good experience, comfort and fun from this process.