Türkiye

The main projects of BPA is amber, art and technology platform. BPA co-organize and acts as partner on local and international projects like: Immediate-Immersive Media Dance Integrating in Telematic Environments.
amber, art and technology platform includes three main activity; AmberFestival, AmberNetwork and BPA Center
AmberFestival is an annual festival which promotes art and technology field in Turkey by organizing seminars, stage performances, exhibitions and workshops. It is run each year in the second week of November.
amber Network is established on 2008 with the first meeting realised in November 2008 during amber, art and technology festival with the members from the following countries: Greece, Turkey, Krygysyztan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Armenia, France, Belgium and Germany. The network aims to gather the organizators and independent artist working in the field. Until the third Network meeting in 2010, The ambernetwork aims to enlarge its capacity and launch officially.
BPA also gives support to the educational activities in the region and operates artistic collaborations with the partner institutions internationally and nationally.

The main project of the society is the International Gumusluk Classical Music Festival. 
It began in 2004 as a series of piano recitals, with the aim of furthering and supporting the education of Turkish music students. 
In 2005 the festival expanded to include all instruments.  By 2006 the founding aim of the festival was put into action. The Festival academy was born in this year, and attracted a group of students from Australia, Japan, Greece, UK and Turkey. The GFA ( Gumusluk Festival Academy) continues to this day, and is at the core of all festival activities and programming, Over 600 students have attended GFA in its 10 year history. 
The festival itself continues to grow each year. In 2008, it expanded its'borders by moving bigger-scale orchestral concerts to the Bodrum, using historically important venues such as the Bodrum Castle and the Bodrum anique theatre.  In 2010 & 2011 alongside the classical music programme a jazz programme was developed. In the same years the first of the Adnan Saygun Piano Competition was realised. This bi-annual event takes place with the aims of supporting young music students with cash prizes and performance opportunities, but also carries the aim of promoting one of Turkeys most succesfull and prolific composers, Saygun to the world and encouraging its performance amongst the younger generations. 
The association has organised winter concert series, notably in 2011 - 2012, the "Gumusluk Classical and Jazz days" took place over an 8 month period and listed a calendar of national and Internatioa s stars
 
 
 
 
 

Master classes with the collaboration of leading music schools; special concerts with guest conductors to raise funds for talented young Turkish musicians, to promote the works of Turkish composers to the international music arena; to allow access to researchers to audio , visual and printed sources through our music library To share our archive of Turkish composers with public.

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We give training and financial support for:
•Psychological-Neurological NLP Program
•Individual and Institutional Coaching Program
•Positive Science Programs (Reiki, Bio Energy)
•Workshop Social Responsibility and its Solutions,
•Workshop for Using Creative Drama in Institutional Training
•Transactional Analysis
•Aesthetic Mind Program
•Intercultural Communication Program
•Teamwork Training
•Training for Creativity Innovation and Protection of Patent
•Project Software Seminar
•Project Management Seminar
•Developing of Trust Laws
•Entrepreneurship and Franchising Trainings
•Various areas of Art like Painting, Music, Theatre , Motion Picture and ‘Trainer Festival’
THESE TRAINING AND CONSULTANCY SERVICES ARE GIVEN BY LOCAL AND FOREIGN EXPERTS WITH THE CONTRIBUTION OF NIHAL MURADOĞLU.
In BTYM, while some individuals become ENTREPRENEUR, some of them become INVESTOR and some of them become EDUCATOR JURY. Still some of them may vary in accordance with the development process and environment or they have the competence of all of them.

PROJECTS ON CREATING ECOLOGICAL CYCLES:
• 100% Organic Markets (Şişli, Kartal, Bakırköy, Beylikdüzü, Konya, Kayseri, and Seferihisar, Burhaniye) - www.ekolojikpazar.org
• Community Based Ecological Farming (garden model)
• Organic Farm Network (TaTuTa Project) - www.tatuta.org
• Seed Exchange Network - www.yasasintohumlar.org
PROJECTS ON POLICY MONITORING AND DEVELOPMENT:
• MoFAL (Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Livestock) Organic Agriculture Steering Committee
• Communication for Rural Population in EU Accession
• Policy Making for National Ecological Agriculture
FREE MOVEMENT OF INFORMATION PROGRAM:
• Turkey’s first ecology magazine: Buğday Magazine
• Buğday Ecological Life Guide
• Ecological Agenda
• Farmer Newspaper
• Weekly e-newsletter
• Radio show on “Açık Radyo”
• Books & booklets
PRESERVING AND SUPPORTING RURAL LIFE
• Mount Ida Ecological Settlement
• Çamtepe Ecological Living Center - www.camtepe.org
School of Life , Homeopathy School, Compost Workshop, School of Tales, Nature Observatory
School, Natural Construction Workshop, Ecological Social Entrepreneurship Camp, Eco-Yoga
Camp
• Mount Ida Initiative
BUĞDAY NETWORK
• 3,200 members and 3,000 registered volunteers
• Reaches 100,000 people each week on social media
• E-mail database of 20,000 people
• A nationwide network uniting 88 farms and 140 ecological companies

To raise awareness of women, to provide scholarships to succesfull students, to increase social awareness about elderly individuals.

Youth Worker Training (2019)
In 2019, 8-day youth worker training was given to 100 individuals. Staff of non-governmental organizations working in the field of youth and officials working in public institutions participated in this training. Trainings were given using the non-formal education model in education.

Precious Times Project (2019)
In 2019, in the city of Manisa, Turkey, sports and artistic trainings were given for 6 weeks in 5 districts for 6 weeks so that children between the ages of 09-15 in the disadvantaged regions can spend a productive time. (Skating, Skateboarding, Swimming, Badminton, Court Tennis, Baglama, Guitar, Charcoal Training, Bocce, Creative Drama Training etc.) A total of 1250 children were reached in 6 weeks.

Bursa Development Cafe Project (2021)
It is a project that we have carried out for 10 months within the scope of Youth Projects Support Program of the Ministry of Youth and Sports to support the social and cultural activities of young people as well as their personal development. Within the scope of this project, English, Arabic, Spanish and Japanese language trainings were given. In addition, trainings such as Mind and Intelligence Games Training, Book Reading Marathon, Project Writing Trainings, Youth Workshops were organized. Within the scope of this project, 5000 young people were reached in 10 months.

Mobile Library Project (2021)
In the project we carried out within the scope of the Youth projects support program of the Ministry of Youth and Sports, we distributed books to 4500 children aged 07-12 in disadvantaged areas in Bursa for 7 months.

Nexus Project (2022)
Career Guidance and Social Cohesion Nexus project and Ministry of Youth and Sport implementing Life skill development ToT Program for the youth leaders who is working centres MoYS and Turkish & Syrian volunteers who is selected by youth centres managers and trainers who is implementing training program behalf of Nexus project and MoYS.
After completing of Training provided by the GIZ – Nexus Project, trained youth leaders and volunteers will develop small project ideas in the program fields defined by MoyS and agreed with GIZ – Nexus projects which are as follows.

We organize activities in our city to promote mobility opportunities among young people, to create social change and support development in the fields of gender equality, climate change, children's rights, disasters and emergencies, youth work.

- We organize workshops on human rights and the fight against hate speech in partnership with youth councils and youth centers in our local area in order to ensure that the communication language of young people is suitable for democratic life and to gain a rights-based perspective.

- FridaysforFutureBursa is established in partnership with Nilüfer Youth Council and FridaysforFuture, enabling young people and children who demand climate justice throughout the province to combat climate change. As Bursa Development Association, we support this work and take an active role in organizing and conducting capacity strengthening and awareness organizations for young people and children.

- In partnership with our association, e-gençlik Association, Bursa City Council, we organize information and workshops in order for young people to learn about Erasmus+ funding sources, to support their mobility abroad with mobility and solidarity programs, to become multicultural individuals, to have European values, and to gain experience and skills.

- - We are conducting an awareness project to increase women's participation in decision-making processes in non-governmental organizations. Project name, we are partners in decisions! Within the scope of the project, we provided campaign design and advocacy training, produced digital and printed materials, and held meetings with associations. This project is supported by the EU Think Civic Programme.

We are currently cooperating with KAVŞAK NETWORK, Disaster Cooperation Network, Local Youth Associations Network, e-youth Association, Mediterranean Youth Association, Pi Association, Nilüfer City Council, Bursa City Council, Gemlik City Council.

Our association was established in August 2021. Since its establishment, we have not received any direct financial resources in our operations. We carried out our activities with in-kind contributions.

We have cooperated with more than 15 associations and contributed to the social development of more than 500 young people through the projects, trainings and workshops we have carried out since the day we were founded.

WORD EXPRESS: Project Structure and Timetable
The project will be led by CN magazine (Istanbul) with main partners in the UK, Croatia, Romania and Israel, as
well as other partners in Armenia, Bulgaria, Bosnia, Cyprus, Greece, Macedonia and Serbia.
Phase 1 (May-June 2009)
creation of the wider network of organisations, magazines and individuals (authors, translators) ready to be
involved in the project – by email – consulting the members and incorporating their input into the design of the project;
Phase 2 (July-September 2009)
a) Select authors and works – poetry, short prose and essays; identify translators.
b) Translation and editing of selected texts into English – these will be published in the UK in print and online(LAF's online magazine Transcript, Eurozine etc.) and will serve as source / bridge for translation into languages of the region into/from which there may not be literary translators. Translation will be done via email and in a specially organised workshop.
c) virtual translations workshops to achieve draft translation of the selected texts
Phase 3 (October 2009)
Train journey from Turkey through Greece, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Serbia, Bosnia and Romania. The journey will
take a changing group of authors / translators to cities where they will take part in readings and debates. The journey will also serve as the final phase of the translation workshops during which the translations will be finalized. The events will be broadcast on the internet to the other participating locations to create a sense of belonging and to reach as wide audiences as possible.
Phase 4 (November-December 2009)
Authors participating in the journey produce a piece of writing inspired by it. The texts are circulated and
translated.
Phase 5 (January – May 2010)
Publication in print and online in all the partners' locations followed by a meeting of project participants in Istanbul in May 2010 to evaluate the project and plan further joint activities. The meeting will be planned as part of the celebrations of 2010 Istanbul European City of Culture.
Phase 6 (June – September 2010)
Produce final report.