Project Name: SENTULGE: University and high school are hand to hand for social integration. http://sentulge.yasar.edu.tr
Coordinator Organization: Yaşar University
Topic of the Project:
The project aims to foster social integration of a group of high school students living in a rural and socio-economically lagging region of Izmir through sport and cultural activities which are leaded by the students and young training staff of a university having high socio-economic profile in the same region. The project will be realized through the cooperation between Yaşar University and Aybers Hikmet Karabacak High School and targeted students from these two education institution. The project will bring together the students of two education institution coming from totally different socio-economic backgrounds and will provide them an active platform where the social integration of high school students will be realized by the university students and young training staff. The students will get intensive basketball and dance courses leaded by young and experienced trainers, and in addition to this, the same group will conduct library make cultural excursions to the main places and museums of Izmir to know better the city they live. The students who live in the same city but not share the same environment due to their totally opposite socio-economic backgrounds, will have the chance to learn more about each other. The university students will contribute to the social integration of the disadvantaged youth group. 20 students from each institutes (in total 40 students) will share the same environment which is normally not easily possible because of socio-economic and cultural differences of these two groups of students. The students of both institutions will benefit from the project and will raise their social awareness. Yaşar University is a private university and the socio-economic living standards of the students are higher than the high school students who live in the periphery of the city with a very low socio-economic level. The project will be pioneer in this sense and will be a good model for the future youth projects in Izmir by strengthening the dialogue and tolerance between young people.
Budget of the Project: 8.000 €
Place: Izmir
Duration: 5 months
Website of the project: http://sentulge.yasar.edu.tr