Mentors
Meriç Tahan
Meriç Tahan, possesses a wealth of expertise in the realm of non-formal education and project proposal design, with a focus on art, music, and cultural issues, holding Master's Degree in NGO Management. Passionate about promoting cultural awareness and artistic expression. His professional journey involves successful project management in the fields of KA152, KA153, KA210, KA220, KA227, Erasmus+ Sport, and KA3 European Youth Together 2020.
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.
Çiçek UÇAR
Çiçek UÇAR, graduated from International Relations at Kocaeli University in 2017. She is studying master of EU Relations and International Relations. She studied political science at Zagreb University for one semester during her education. She had Voluntary Service in Macedonia. She took part of many youth projects.
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.
Tugay Özkan
Trainer
Tugay is a youth worker from İstanbul with national and international experience, having participated in various Erasmus projects, including training courses, the European Solidarity Corps and Erasmus for young entrepreneurs. He has been volunteering since 2018, dedicated to fostering cross-cultural connections and community development.
In his latest European Solidarity Corps project in Luxembourg, he helped students with digital design and theater methodologies for the association ‘Changemakers Luxembourg’ , which aiming to promote social inclusion and empower youth work. He strongly believes in the values of Youtheurasia and hopes that more and more people will become interested in and benefit from the opportunities offered by Erasmus.