For the aim of secular and democratic Turkey, ANTCEV tries to contribute in the education of the young people to make them critically think and express confidently what they think, produce and search for the answers efficiently. To serve this aim our foundation focuses on modern education and works on projects for the education of children, young people, teachers, parents and adults. One of our aims is to build schools, dormitories, social centres, youth centres and support those which have already been built for any level of the general education. We also organise scientific, cultural and sports activities.

OUR ACTIVITIES AND PROJECTS IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION

Scholarship for the University Students

ANTCEV has been providing the successful and gifted university students, who don’t have enough financial support to continue their education, with the scholarship.

Supporting the Primary School Education

We support pilot primary schools, which are located in the disadvantaged areas in Antalya by organising seminars and courses backing primary curriculum with the help of our scholars. We also provide these schools with necessary equipment and the students with what they needed, such as clothing and stationery.

Parents Education in Disadvantaged Areas (PEDA)

This was an EU project (SOCRATES-Grundtvig 2/LP) with Greek and Portuguese Partners. With this project it was aimed to enhance the participation of parents to the economical and social life of the community, to promote parents for a life long learning and to participate in parents’ organisations in the schools. Project activities included training courses on ICT and foreign languages for parents, seminars on domestic violence, good communication skills, hygiene and consumer rights which can also help the parents to be employed.

Active Employment –New Opportunities Programme: “We Also Are At Work”

This project was also supported by EU funding programmes. In this project it was aimed to support young high school graduates, who became unemployed in some reasons, with courses on ICT and enhance their computer skills to be involved in career programmes, to succeed in job interviews and to find better jobs.

Immigration Professionals Experience Integration Program in Turkey (IPEIPIT)

This is a project supported by EU funding programmes (SOCRATES- Grundtvig 2/LP) with seven other European partners including the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Iceland, Italy and Spain. The aim of this project is to develop a wide network of European countries dealing with integration policies and integration of minorities. Main objectives of it are to raise awareness on integration by promoting intercultural competence, to increase the motivations of educators and policy makers involved in this area. Project activities included teaching Turkish to target groups, writing a manual using this experience.

IT Education as an Activating Factor of Adults from Areas under Danger of Unemployment (ITEFAFU)

This is a project supported by EU funding programmes (SOCRATES- Grundtvig 2/LP) with seven other European partners including Poland, Germany, Slovak Republic, Spain, Greece, the Netherlands and Cyprus. The aims of this project are to identify professional activity areas desirable in a given environment, to encourage the unemployed to start their own business, to identify and apply IT to professional activities such as commerce, services etc. and to job searching as a means of job offering. In this project teaching process is based on an e-learning platform and methods of job searching with the help of IT.

OTHER ACTIVITIES
1. “The Ways to Discover the Biological Diversity”- Youth Project (Action 1) with Norwegian and Italian Partners.
2. Exchange of vocational educational students coming from Germany as a partner.

SOCIAL AND CULTURAL ACTIVITIES

Educational Seminars
ANTCEV organises seminars on several issues related with education for both our scholars and people living in Antalya in order to contribute to the implementation of our secular and democratic understanding of modern society.

Social and Cultural Activities
ANTCEV also organises activities on the important days of our country, such as Children’s Day. Furthermore, we organise chess tournaments, concerts, art exhibitions etc.