Genç Zihin Derneği (Young Intelligence Association)

Young Intelligence Association is a non-governmental organization founded in Iğdır, Turkey in 2016 after a group of educators from different backgrounds decided to unite their experience and skills to contribute to the social and personal development of local citizens via life-long learning. It has more than 240 members involved in local and international youth activities since its establishment.
We aim to support the active involvement of local citizens from all ages and all professions 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; to raise awareness on respect, empathy and tolerance between youngsters; to promote intercultural dialogue as a tool for solving common issues and conflicts; to focus on issues related to human rights and acceptance of personal limitations; to emphasize social cohesion and its role in developing multicultural communities 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 to conduct both international and domestic projects.
Young Intelligence Association also works with schools. Under the roof of it, our key personels provide academic support to teachers to design effective lessons and integrate information and communication technology into their lesson plans such as Multimedia Design, Educational Games Design and WEB 2.0 tools. Besides, it provides algorithm and coding courses to classroom teachers in Iğdır and İstanbul about Scratch and Ardunio.
Young Intelligence Association is also a sender and a host organization to help them to improve participants’ 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 about the topics of Diversity, EU Citizenship, EU awareness and Democracy, Hate Speech, Sport Activities and Healthy Life, Unemployment, Nutrition Habit ,Migration and Integration of Immigrants, Cyber Crimes, European Citizenship, Human Rights and Social Exclusion through Theatre and Tolerance, information and Media Literacy.
As Young Intelligence Association, we believe that we will make a change in the society by bringing citizens together and encouraging them to appear on the stage of life by equipping them with 21th century values and skills. In this organization, to make one member's dream come true, all the members work together.