European Cooperation Network Association (Avrupa İşbirliği Ağı Derneği)

European Cooperation Network Association (Avrupa İsbirligi Agi Dernegi -AIAD)has been established with the aim of developing social entrepreneurship in Turkey, contributing to the solution development process of employment issues especially in the fields of culture, education, youth, media, agriculture, environment and health, and doing researches concerning to the disadvantageous groups ( woman, disabled child etc.), in addition to these, AİAD aims at raising awareness of democratic citizenship and human rights and building national and international partnership concerning these areas and preparing projects and putting into practise these project to produce a solution, and conveying Europe and World experiences by means of participation to funding programmes and cooperation. AİAD carries on activities in the fields of preparing and carrying out the project to improve the current situation of disadvantageous groups (women,disabled people,child etc.) AİAD prepares project proposal and manage this project. AİAD organizes seminar and conferences for young people, academicians and professionals. AİAD works in collaboration with AB-ilan.com (AB-ilan.com as a internet platform contributing to the EU membership process of Turkey and aiming to build closer relations between Turkey and European countries gathers all the information about EU-Turkey relations and opportunities provided by the EU for Turkish citizens, and publishes them on its web-page. Additionally the members of AİAD have implemented a youth project last summer in Turkey. The name of the project is “Youth on Stage for Human Rights”. It included several activities about theater, youth and human rigths and youth participation.