Mentors
Gökhan Sevinç
Brand Manager,Designer
After the sales area he made while he was studying Business Administration at Pamukkale University and still continuing, he focused on Brand Management, Customer Experience and Gamification.
Zuhal SOLMAZ
Trainer, Ecological Literacy
Ms. Zuhal is a Physics Teacher who has been working for 19 years in public schools. However, she has been voluntarily carrying out the task of representing the TEMA Foundation of Kartal district in Istanbul for 6 years. TEMA is the largest ecological NGO of Turkey. In 2012, She attended the Ecological Literacy course organized by the Ministry and TEMA. As a provincial responsible, I gave ecological literacy training to 4500 teachers in Istanbul between 2012-2015 in order to increase their skills, knowledges and competences regarding ecology and it's aspects. She has more than 10 certification recognized by Republic of Turkey and EU in ecological and similar areas.
EXPERTISE & TECHNIQUES and ACTIVE PROJECTS
Junior Gardeners: A project aimed at primary school students to meet nature and grow their own vegetables with local seeds. The project is carried out in 8 volunteer schools in Kartal district. We guide schools from setting up a garden to harvesting the crop.
Perception of Nature: A project in which we actively volunteer university students in cooperation with Marmara University. In 3 years (6 semesters), our young 850 university students, provided a total of 5292 hours of nature education to 7625 little students in 233 classes.
Games in Nature School: A project aimed at the active use of outdoor areas such as teacher training in the botanical garden. 800 teachers have participated in the project that has been ongoing since 2013.
Nature and Bird Watching Trips: By organizing trips to important nature and bird watching areas that need to be protected, we observe the problems of the area on site and raise awareness of our volunteers. (Hersek Lagoon, İğneada Longoz forests, Acarlar Longozu, Yedigöller etc.)
Nilay YILMAZ
Trainer, Creative Writing and Drama
She was born in 1971. Between 1992-2011, she worked as a lecturer in English Language and Turkish Language teaching programs at Anadolu University and Istanbul Bilgi University. In 1998, she graduated from Anadolu University Institute of Social Sciences in English Language and Education, after graduating from Istanbul University Institute of Social Sciences Turkish Education program in 2012, She received her doctorate degree in Turkish education and children's literature. Her doctoral dissertation was awarded with the 2014 Oğuz Tansel Folklore Research Award (with her research titled “A Critical View of Child Reality in Turkish Children's Literature Books”). She continues her academic studies individually.
She wrote stories, novels and theater plays until today. Together with their two writer friends Aytül Akal and Mavisel Yener, the theater plays they wrote for children were exhibited by Ankara and Istanbul State Theaters. Among these games, She likes the non-verbal game Purple Night Blue Day, which he wrote for the most hearing-impaired children, dreams of the days when this game will meet more children.
Selenay AÇIKGÖZ
Trainer, specified in disadvantaged groups
I was born in 1984. I am a single mother of 5 year old girl. I was graduated from Ege University Education Faculty, psychological counseling and guidance departman. I did my masters degree on multiculturalism in Uludağ University. I concentrated on advocacy, activism and empowerment in my profession. I have been working for Turkish Ministry of Education as psychological counseling for 13 years from primary to high school. I finished “Working child rights with kids educator program” with Bilgi University child works department. And i supported volunteerly their work for a while. I was chosen to Bilgi University Civil Society Development Departments “Şebeke: participation of Youth “ e-learning program and i attented to Brussels study visit in which i networked 24 different youth organisation an EU parliement. I support “another school is possible association” on child alternative education field as board member and “Youtheurasia “ on youth field actively. I believe they are effective 2 organisations on their fields. I have visited Norway, spain and vienna for EU youth projects as participant with Youtheurasia. Now i am also working with visually disabled and blind kids. I am also child yoga instructor. I wish to empower these kids with my capabilities and experince and i want them to experience European Projects thats whyei wrote my first project on supporting blind kids education this year. Clean food is also my other passion i am supporting Gediz Food Chain of ethic Suppliers and farms. I am pleased to work on any cause which i believe the world will benefit from with all my heart.
Şinasi YELKENCİ
Trainer, Splash Trash Art
Şinasi Yelkenci, who calls himself “Marine Scavenger”, has no art education. He is constantly working to catch the ideal of "clean sea", which he started twenty years ago by collecting garbage from the seas. At the end of the twenty years, when the seas are cleared of an ant, they turn those garbage into artworks. The aim of Yelkenci is to draw attention to environmental pollution and the massacre of nature, which has become increasingly impossible to recover. For years, he collects garbage of the seas on different beaches with environmentally sensitive volunteers. Previously, he started to make various motifs on the beach from the seaside. These instant works were only permanent in the photo frames. His work in Burgazada,Turkey where he went for four years on the weekends, attracted the attention of the people of the island.