Gençlik ve Proje Derneği

Youth and Project Association (GEPED) was established in 2018 in Kocaeli. GEPED aims to make young people active against the problems of all segments of society. GEPED's areas of interest include producing projects that integrate refugees into society, and conducting awareness-raising activities. In addition, it has developed networks with many different institutions and youth groups through national and international events. GEPED organized a conferance, "Turkey's Middle East Perspectives: Perceptions and Realities", with partnership of Al Sharq Youth in 2018. In the conferance, academics from different disciplines with young immigrant people invited as speaker. In this way experiences of immigrant youth living in Turkey shared with the participants. In the conferance, It discusses the perception of the Middle East by different social groups and how this perception affects the activities of NGOs. GEPED conducts activities to disseminate project outputs by using the media tools at the professional level as well as the activities it organizes, thus aiming to maximize the social benefit. kafakampus.com is a project developed and held by GEPED to reach out to young people from all over the Turkey and invite them to be active in civil society. In kafakampüs.com, young people prepare content based on their own interests and abilities and improve their communication with other interested young people. Kafakampus.com, which can also be described as a media tool, is visited by 100,000 users on a monthly basis and more than 1 million users annually.