Bilim Eğitim Kültür Araştırmaları Merkezi Derneği
Gaziantep, Türkiye
⭐️ Activity Title
Youth Bridge
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🔷 Activity Details
Description
Are you ready to make a difference, grow personally, and explore Turkish culture? Engage with local students by sharing your experiences, inspiring them, and supporting educational activities, or join our media center to develop content creation, video editing, photography, and digital storytelling skills. Volunteers can also use our professional TV studio and radio stations to gain broadcasting and audio production experience. Enjoy our sports and arts facilities, including a gym, swimming pool, basketball court, and guitar, piano, violin, and bağlama courses. You will also distribute humanitarian aid, provide psychosocial support to refugees and earthquake victims, and join environmental activities in our forest area, including tree planting, maintenance, and nature protection. The project runs year-round with flexible starting dates, and we recommend staying at least 2 months to fully live the experience. We are looking for available volunteers ASAP.
Accommodation, food and transport arrangements
Volunteers will stay in shared rooms (2 people per room), with boys and girls accommodated separately. The accommodation is safe, comfortable, and fully equipped, and is located right next to our foundation. Three meals are provided daily. Travel costs will be reimbursed according to the ESC distance bands. Visa and residence permit expenses will be covered. Airport transfers are provided upon arrival and departure. Volunteers will receive health insurance through Henner.
Training during the activity
Develop key skills such as creativity, teamwork, time management, and problem-solving. Take part in induction sessions to become familiar with Turkish culture, local community values, and project activities. Participants will gain project coordination experience by taking active roles in the projects. They will also benefit from Turkish language courses and English-speaking clubs. Training includes media production using our media studio and radio stations, as well as creative workshops in art, music, and sports coaching. Volunteers will receive continuous guidance and much more.
Participant profile
It is fundamental to: Have active and effective communication skills; Be capable of adapting to innovations and changes; Have digital competences and use technology effectively; Have a high sense of social responsibility; Be sensitive to individuals at different levels; Respect people from different cultures; Respect other volunteers; Have different skills or interests (arts, sports, language, environment, media, science, etc.); Be willing to help where needed and up for a challenges!
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🔑 Key Information
Activity dates
A total of 8 week(s) during the period 01/09/2026 to 20/10/2026
Activity location
Güneykent Mah., Şehit Gökhan Özdemir Sok., Bülbülzade Vakfı Sitesi, C Blok, No: 14, Gaziantep, Türkiye
Activity type
Individual volunteering
Looking for participants from
Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Czechia, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Greenland, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Latvia, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, Netherlands, North Macedonia, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden
Activity topics
Social challenges
Citizenship and democratic participation
Environment and natural protection
Education and training
Employment and entrepreneurship
Creativity and culture
Physical education and sport
Post Disaster relief
Working against discrimination (including gender discrimination)
Deadline for applications
Application deadline: 31/08/2026 15:00
Project code
2024-1-TR01-ESC51-VTJ-000216514
🔗 Official Project Page
https://youth.europa.eu/solidarity/opportunity/53907_en
