Our mission is to promote women's rights and their position in the public and private spheres in the Mediterranean and globally.Our objectives are To:1.  study, analyze and improve women's lives in all areas.2.  develop actions that increase gender awareness and promote gender equality.3.  develop gender sensitive methods and initiatives in conflict resolution and peace building.4.  sensitize and mobilize women for the protection of the environment and their cultural heritage.5.  initiate and participate in national and international campaigns and programes of global concern such as: trafficking, gender based violence, racism, AIDS and drug abuse.6.  empower women through capacity building in various skills enabling them to fully participate on equal  terms in political, socio-economic and cultural life.

Işık University's mission is to be an academically sound institution providing a comprehensive undergraduate education that responds to the needs of a changing world. It also offers selectively focused graduate programs that lend support both to research and to undergraduate education. Işık’s institutional structures uphold the commitment to being research-active in particular subject areas and to encouraging scholarship in all fields. Işık University is a growing institution with a commitment to self improvement and the culture of academic quality. Aiming at obtaining financial support from multiple sources of income Işık University is also aware of the significance of rendering community service and convinced of its mutual benefits. The core values of our institution are:
• A secular and modern identity
• Respect for academic ethical values
• A culture that values quality and performance
• International norms
• Student-centered education

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It is designed to promote joint research on the entangled world histories of West Asia and East Asia, Europe and the Americas together with individual researchers, universities and other institutions in these world regions.

aim of the free association and sociocultural center is to advance the creative and responsible use of new media through all generations.

Fight against social exclusion in education through mutual learning and dissemination of knowledge.

The mission of the association is to assist the democracy and comunity development local, regional, national and international. The objectives of the association are related to securing support for defending dignity of people and promotion of economic and social cohesion between regions through promotion of different cultural intitiatives, support for tourism and environment.

Born over the assumption that organized crime has long become a transnational phenomenon, FLARE intends to represent an alternative model to contrast organized crime in Europe and the neighbouring territories. FLARE’s aim is to promote an alternative – however complimentary – modus operandi than the one implemented by institutions for the fight against transnational organized crime.
The FLARE Network aims at:
- raising awareness among European citizens about the diffusion and the influence of organized crime in Europe and in the surrounding territories;
- having the European Parliament proclaim March 21st “European Day in memory of the victims of the mafias and for the commitment in contrasting organized crime“;
- requesting the European Commission and the Council of Europe to legislate in the matter of reuse for social purposes of property and goods confiscated to international criminal organizations.

Promote the contribution of all those scholars of social and economic sciences who believe in the potentials of an interdisciplinary approach;
Operate independently from all ideological, political and financial influences;
Foster the internationalisation of research activities;
Interpreting the processes of change under way in society using the empirical methodology of the Anglo-Saxon tradition and frontier research in the behavioural and cognitive sciences.
The Foundation’s primary objective is to conduct fundamental and applied research activities in the economic, social and political fields, with particular attention to the public policies sector at a national and international level. Besides its inquiry-type objectives of an eminently academic nature, the Foundation
has taken on a role, over the years, as Think Tank for the principal government institutions of Italy and of Europe, to which it offers the possibility to share its knowledge and analyses.

Within its international policy the city of Amsterdam focuses on those countries where a large part of the city's population originates from: Turkey, Morocco, Surinam, Ghana and the Antilles. The Department of Social Development contributes to the implementation of this policy by exchanging best practises and expertise with partners in those countries in the fields that fall within its professional scope.