TURKEY YOUTH FOUNDATION

Founded in 2014 in Turkey, Türkiye Gençlik Vakfı is new generation youth foundation, which aims to raise a generation that will always be on the side of justice, defending everything that is good and beautiful in the world. To contribute to particularly Turkey and all other the world's youth by supporting their social, physical, mental, psychological and spiritual development, and teach them how to be productive, progressive, innovative and valuable for our world. To be afoundation that helps raise the young generations that will help build our nation anew. Our foundation has its values.
These; justice, morality, unity and kindness.

Youth activities including education, sports, culture and arts to help to increase the education level of the youth and population; to contribute to the young generations by supporting their social, physical, mental,psychological and spiritualdevelopment, and teach them how to be productive, progressive, innovative and valuable for the World.

As Turkey Youth Foundation (TUGVA), we primarily target the EU Youth Strategy policy in the youth field. We would like to focus on the following areas of action with EU Youth Strategy:

- (Engage) Fostering young people's participation in civic and democratic life,
- (Connect) Connecting young people across the European Union and beyond to foster voluntary engagement, learning mobility, solidarity and intercultural understanding,
- (Empower) Supporting youth empowerment through quality, innovation and recognition of youth work.

We would like to contribute to 11 European youth goals with our projects within the scope of these three main areas.

Howewer, TUGVA wants young people to engage and become an active citizen involved in democracy and society. We want young people to tell us what is important to them by taking part in the EU Youth Dialogue.In this context, we want to contribute to the EU Youth Strategy by producing new projects.

Also, we target areas such as:

- European Enlargement Policy,
- Democracy and Human Rights Policy,
- Culture and Creativity Policy,
- Spor Policy.

http://tugva.org/ ; http://tugva.org/en/

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There are 68 full-time professional employees at the headquarters of our foundation. The number of people interacting with EU institutions is 15. Five of them are working full time and professionally. The remaining four people work voluntarily (unpaid).

So, Our foundation is an organization based on volunteering. Apart from the nine people we mentioned, we have hundreds of volunteers working for much less time. These ours volunteers take part in organizing activities within the scope of EU projects.

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