Türkiye

Thus this resource while generating its own readership would also offer free use of content under Creative Commons' license the permission for newspapers and websites to reproduce its materials, photos, videos and podcasts. The project also provides insight into such existing but hidden real heroes for building cross-cultural, cross religious and trans-national trust. We have already developed our project in three languages: Urdu, English and Arabic. In the next phase we plan to add Malay and Turkish languages besides incorporating French, German, Spanish and Portuguese as soon as resources and manpower becomes available. Besides English, French and Spanish media has too many stereotypes about Muslim cultures, societies and even Muslim minorities in countries where these languages are spoken.
We commission real on-ground stories to established journalists in their respective countries to prepare stories in video, audio and online format.

To meet the disabled person’s needs and make the life easier for them. To supply unemployed people by educating and make them enable to work in different areas. To elicit the support of the public.

Organizer:
Meditative Dance
Integral move Festival (Istanbul)
Communicative World International Conference (Istanbul)
Co-organizer
European Citizenship EU project
Heaven on Earth (EU Cultural Program Project)
Duty of Comedy (EU Project)

Adapt Performing Art Festival (USA)
Conferences:
Beyond Borders (Bulgaria)
Third Space (Austrilia)

Simya Arts is a member of IETM (International Network for Contemporary Performing Arts) and European Off Network. It is the organizer of a large-scale network event to be held in year 2010 in Istanbul(European Culture Capital for 2010) with the participation of artists, art organizations and cultural operators from 30 countries of Europe. The project is carried out in partnership of cultural organizations around Europe and with the support of public and private institutions in Turkey. The project is aimed to be a further opportunity for the transnational mobility of artists and transnational circulation of artistic works, and for promoting intercultural dialogue.
The main partners of the company in year 2009-2010 activities are Freie Theater (Austria), Teatro Inverso (Italy), Teater Centrum (Sweden), Pro Rodopi Foundation (Bulgaria), Scarlattine Teatro (Italy), VTS (Poland)and Association KUD Mreža (Slovenia).

We are Host Entrepreneur under the programe: Erasmus for Young Entrepreneurs and we have been hosted over 5 entrepreneurs from different countries, established partnerships and collaborations throughout the years. Our main activities have been related to social entrepreneurship, innovation, social inclusion, environment protection etc.

Platformumuz tarafından düzenlenen değişim akademisi programları çerçevesinde 1 ay boyunca
her hafta sonu milletvekillerimizi derneğimizde ağırlayarak, yerel sorunları, ulusal gündemi ve
gençlik sorunlarını tartıştık.
IRI- Uluslararası Cumhuriyetçiler Enstitüsü ve İstanbul Aydın Üniversitesi ortaklığı ile İzmir’de
1 ay boyunca gerçekleştirilen eğitime dernek olarak katılım gösterdik.
Sivil Düşün AB Programı kapsamında iki tane proje ile başvurumuzu yaptık.
Erasmus+ Programı kapsamında projemizi yazdık.
Hak Temelli Çalışmalarımız kapsamında Roman Çalışmaları İnsan Hakları Forumunu İzmir Romanlar Derneği ile beraber düzenledik.
Uluslararası Çocuklarla Güçlüyüz Konferansına katılım gösterdik.
Habitat Kalkınma ve Yönetişim Derneği, UNDP, Kalkınma Bakanlığı ve VİSA Europe onaylı eğitim olan Paramı Yönebiliyorum ve Girişimcilik eğitimlerini yaygınlaştırdık.

SKYGD, since it has been founded, conducts projects (in cooperation with other ngo’s, local and public institutions) with groups under risk or subjected to social and/or economical exclusion. These projects are oriented towards the needs of target groups and susceptible to be adopted and applied by them.
SKYGD has conducted art workshops with children under difficult conditions, people dianosed mentally ill, prisoners and groups subjected to social and/or economical exclusion in different cities. Since 2013, the association has widened it’s scope and included every group of people who are subjected to every kind of excusion, such as women, old age people, homeless people and LGBT people.
The Main Projects of 2013:
1 - "Short Films on Prison" focuses on the prisoners' rights and their conditions in prisons.Statistics show that artistic creation especially the number of the films shot in/on prisons or about prisoners is very unsatisfying. The project aims to promote film shooting in/on prisons and raise awareness on the subject.The project will be implemented by SKYGD with the collaboration of Film and Television and/or Visual Communication Design students (6 University)in Istanbul.The target groups are students, prisoners, academicians. Panels and study visits to prisons will inform young people about the prisoners' conditions, the penal execution system in Turkey.A short film script competition will be organized, 5 scripts among them will be awarded(by a jury)to be shot.These films will be screened in the universities and the prisons.The competition and the screening will be preliminary steps to draw attention of young people, universities and the general public to the subject and be able “to see and listen the story of prisoners through the short films of young people.
2-JOIN the ACTION / “150 meters away from the civilisation” envisages three art workshops (video, stop-motion, drawing/painting-story ) with the children in Tarlabaşı (a region subject to gentrification) and an exhibition displaying the works produced during these workshops.

Our association conducts activities in the field of youth. Our Association conducts activities to develop democracy consciousness at the same time as enabling young people to be active in decision making mechanisms. Besides working with youths, Culture and Art, Environment, Employment and Education Working Groups are established to contribute to urban life. Our Association, which has a multipurpose event hall and all kinds of technical facilities, carries out joint projects with different NGOs in regional and international projects in order to encourage active citizenship of young people in general and to develop solidarity and tolerance among young people. Adana Yüreğir Municipality agrees to work with 6 culture houses in the municipality to provide education, arts, culture oriented projects and projects to disadvantaged youths and children. Our Association Many youth programs are in the position of practitioner and stakeholder in the project. Our Association organized a report on youth unemployment in the 7 regions under the scope of the "Project for Sub-Causes Action Plan for Young Unemployed for a Respected Life" which was carried out under the Youth Programs Action 5.1.2012 and this report was presented to the Youth Commission as a sample report by the parliamentary commission. Our association has carried out studies with thousands of young people who are equivalent to the present day.We develop and implement projects focusing on exchanging information and experience, conducting research, developing and collectively implementing projects with corporations, both in Turkey and abroad, that seek solutions for social problems. Participating in these activities so as to increase the feeling of togetherness, communication, sharing, and interaction and active participation in communal life is one of the most important purposes of our organization.

Our regular activities are trainings, seminars, camps, sportive tournaments, concerts, youth exchanges, campaigns.