A2 PHASE MEETING (2)

ANTALYA LYCEE

PREPARATION

• The CIAK participants prepared a presentation of CIAK phase A1 meetings held in Turkey and the meeting held in Italy, including project objectives, descriptions and the activities done in Italy.
• The information about partners (Italy and Hungary) of CIAK project is compiled through internet CIAK blog and partner blogs.
• Project badges are prepared.
• The organization for food and drinks are made (cookies and fruit juice for all young participants are arranged through sponsorship)
• The topics (to be handled and the methods) are decided by the CIAK participants. 

IMPLEMENTATION

• The debriefing is done by Youth Leader Fatma SAVAŞ to all participants. The participants of the CIAK A2 phase meeting 2 are informed about the duration of the meeting, the aims and the activities.

• Hamid BURGAN (YP) managed the introductory game.
• Burak YÜKSEL (YP) managed the IB game. In this game, each participant follows the commands given by the speaker.
• Elif ÇOKSÖYLER and Hamid BURGAN presented the information about the Muratpaşa Youth Group. And they gave information about informal youth groups.
• Emin Kaya and Pınar Uyar presented information about CIAK project and its activities.
• Melih DÜNGÜLLÜ orgainzed the whole material distribution and coordination. 
• The other young participants gave short information about their experience with EU Education and Youth projects. They gave information about their school Comenius project briefly.
• Subgroups are formed. 4 young people formed 7 subgroups. They first visited each topic of CIAK project and shared their views. Later they worked on one topic more in depth. 

Topics handled are:

A. What do you think about the prejudices of Turkish people against the Europeans? Do you think, the Turkish have any prejudices against Europe and European Union? If you think, yes what are those prejudices? Is there a way to eliminate those prejudices?

B. What is the biggest barrier for the young people in Turkey? What about in Europe? How do you think, it would be possible to overcome this barrier?

C. Europe and Turkey. What do you think of European Union and Turkey’s membership situation? Do you think, it is a necessity for the Turkey to be a full-member? If yes, Why if no, Why not?

D. Do you think, the Europeans have prejudices against the Turkish people? If you think so, what the wrong things which are in fact not true? How is it possible to eliminate those prejudices?

E. Have you ever been to Europe? If yes, where have you been? When? Was it through a EU project? What are the things that an EU project adds to young participants?

F. Do you think, it is a necessity for the young people to be involved in politics? Do you think, the politicians need to contact young people before giving decisions about their future and current lives? How can this be made possible?

G. What are the systems or channels for the young people in Turkey to make the authority hear himself/herself? What is your (or somebody you know) experience of being involved into politics?

Results:

A. What do you think about the prejudices of Turkish people against the Europeans? Do you think, the Turkish have any prejudices against Europe and European Union? If you think, yes what are those prejudices? Is there a way to eliminate those prejudices?

Yes, they do. For example, we think the Italians eat only pizza and they sleep all the time, the Germans drink beer all the time and the girls in the east Europe loves money a lot.

To overcome this, we must join project to share and learn our cultures. We must visit the countries we have prejudices and see how they live.

B. What is the biggest barrier for the young people in Turkey? What about in Europe? How do you think, it would be possible to overcome this barrier?

The biggest problem of the young people is education system. The system we have is only trying to teach us but it does not show us how to live, how to improve our skills. So we want a system which will help us improve our life skills.

C. Europe and Turkey. What do you think of European Union and Turkey’s membership situation? Do you think, it is a necessity for the Turkey to be a full-member? If yes, Why if no, Why not?

We must be a full-member because,

This will help us be better at human rights and freedom,

We will not have visa problems,

Our life standards will increase,

We will have more rights in Europe,

We will have ore interactions with the people in Europe,

The prejudices against the Turkish may decrease.

But it is thought at some settings that The European Union is a Christian Club, which will be impossible for Turkey to be a member of.

D. Do you think, the Europeans have prejudices against the Turkish people? If you think so, what the wrong things which are in fact not true? How is it possible to eliminate those prejudices?

Yes, they do. They are often surprised when they become our friends and they say we did not know the Turkish people were so friendly like this.

L They think, all the Turkish women wear scarves over their heads and they think all Turkish have black skin, they are surprised when they see we also have white skins. And they say the Turkish are barbarians.

Why they have prejudice:

Historical background (big wars) and today’s political relations

Social rights,

Cultural Differences,

The differences in the Education System,

The differences in the opportunities

This leads to problems that

Misunderstanding,

No communication

Subjective views,

  

E. Have you ever been to Europe? If yes, where have you been? When? Was it through a EU project? What are the things that an EU project adds to young participants?

Hamid: yes, to Italy this year. We improve our foreign language skills, learn other cultures, and make new friends.

We get rid of our prejudices. And learn many new things.

Aynur: Yes, to Belgium in March. I learned new cultures and new people.

Furkan: Yes, to Germany, last year. My English improved a great deal. And I learned other cultures.

F. Do you think, it is a necessity for the young people to be involved in politics? Do you think, the politicians need to contact young people before giving decisions about their future and current lives? How can this be made possible?

Yes, it is a necessity. This way, we can improve our critical thinking skills. For the politicians to make a welfare country and for the welfare of its youth, they have to ask the young people their ideas.

In order to do this,

• They have to learn about the needs of the young people,
• They must give training about politics and political life,
• There must be youth committees,
• It must be fully legal for the young be involved in politics without conditions.

G. What are the systems or channels for the young people in Turkey to make the authority hear himself/herself? What is your (or somebody you know) experience of being involved into politics?

These are writing letters or complaints or through some associations. Also the internet and media can be used. These projects are also a channel for young people.

OTHER CONSIDERATIONS AND EVALUATIONS

Among 26 young participants attended the 2^nd meeting activity CIAK A2 phase 16 of them answered questionnaire of CIAK rating questionnaire.

After the analysis of the results the rating of the 2^nd A2 phase CIAK meeting in Turkey resulted with the following averages:

ORGANIZATION OF THE ACTIVITY:                                        4,80

TOOLS AVAILABLE:                                                                      4,75

METHOD USED:                                                                             4,90

COMPETENCE OF THE TEACHERS(ORGANISERS):             4,82

INFORMATION RECEIVED BEFORE:                                       4,15

UTILITY:                                                                                           4,95

OVERALL AVERAGE:                                                                    4,82

                                                          

The young people who participated to the activity were 17-18 years old who are students at a lycee in central Antalya. They said they enjoyed the meeting a lot and they would like to join other meetings or projects of the group.

They were very interested in how they can be a part of similar projects. 

CIAK TURKEY 6TH MEETING

CIAK Turkish participants held the 6th CIAK meeting at Muratpaşa National Education Directorate.

The topics handled during the meeting are:

REPRESENTATION

·        Connotations for being represented and being represented.

·        Participants’ personal experience of representing others,

·        Qualities of being an ideal representative and represented.

·        The management structure of the public affairs in Turkey/bureaucratic vs political bodies, channels and methods for the requirements for the young people to be involved.

ORGANISATION PLAN for PHASE B meetings

·        Distribution of tasks, plan of the flow of the meetings, cooperation with other YOUTH groups.

ITALY MEETING PREPARATIONS

·        The explanations for official documents for passport and visa applications, parent permission and agreement documents.

·        Explanations on the expectations from the Turkish group.

MEETING with the Political Representative

The young people had two hour meeting with the Director of National Education of Muratpaşa District.

At the meeting,

How the quality of young participation into political structures, the legal procedures to be followed are discussed.

CIAK Turkey 5th Meeting

On the 28th of December CIAK Turkey group has met to visit Antalya Municipality Youth Council Representative who is also Eurodesk coordinator.

At the meeting, the young participants of CIAK Turkey, has gained new knowledge on

• Who the youth council of Antalya composed of,
• How the youth council representatives are elected,
• How can a young person apply to attend the youth council,
• What the youth council activities, campaigns are,
• Eurodesk sections, and activities,
• How the Eurodesk is financed
• Turkish National Agency mission and the function of National Agencies in Europe
• EVS programme,
• How to prepare CV on Europass web page,
• How the letter of motivation is prepared,

Municipality Youth Section and the Youth Group of Muratpasa has agreed to coordinate the 1^st CIAK meeting to which a large group of young people are expected to attend.  

The description video of Antalya and CIAK Turkish participants..ALL MADE BY YOUNG PEOPLE initiatives

Turkish participants short Video

Turkish Participants LONG Video

4th Meeting

The 4th Meeting of CIAK was held on the 13th of December 2012. The group met in front of the National Education Central Office and headed for the Directorate for Sports and Youth of Muratpasa.

In the search for the systems to raise the quality of integration of youth into the politic and democratic life, we came across with the directorate which is responsible for all kinds of sport and youth activities. And before this year, they were more concentrated on Sports and Sporting Clubs but this year, they have opened their Youth Centres.

We wanted to search, learn and get involved into the activities organised by this govermental  organisation which is supported by the state but also working with an association framework. 

The participants of the group wanted to get registered for the Volunteer Activities and their contacts have been realised.

Two of them are going to work as Youth Representatives of their school, announcing Youth Local Activities/Organisations/Panels/Competitions and others to the other young people at their school. Two others registered for a Youth Research tour to take place in January 2013, to the Eastern Part of Anatolia bordering with Georgia.

As the young people asked/learned and inquired they found many interesting activities they can get involved and they also need to work as a representative of the local body at the social youth groups they belong to.

This can be taken as a big step to increase the representation skills of the CIAK participants, they, as the more young people they represent, the more their skills of representation will improve. 

3rd Meeting

CIAK TURKEY 3RD MEETING

On the 29th of November 2012, the Turkish participants of CIAK met at the National Education Directorate to hold the activities of the 3rd CIAK meeting.

The meeting began with the share and discussions of questionnaire results. The questionnaire was conducted on 200 young people in Muratpasa district. Its results are decided to be used for the big CIAK meetings held in Turkey.

The activities began with and Ice Breaking game, called 3 truth does not kill one lie. Each participant tells three facts and a lie, the others try to guess the lie.

The power point presentation of Effective Communication was followed with Interactive Tasks.

After the discussion of the elements of communication, the importance of nonverbal communication came forward.

However, the fact that nonverbal communication is culture bound!!! Said by one of the participants so we watched a video on cross cultural gestures, that it really differs what you are actually saying in different cultures with your gestures.

watch cross cultural gestures video

The use of me and you languages trying to send more empathetic messages, and being an active listener were the other topics that were handled.

The activities on eye contact, proxemity, nonverbal communication and language uses were used at the meeting.

Meanwhile, contacts with the City Youth Council of Antalya and the Antalya Youth and Sports Ministry were set and initiations to hold visits and meetings with reps of these authorities were started.

The tasks of preparing an introduction video of the Turkish group and outlining the big meeting with other youth groups are given to the participants.

THE RESULTS OF CIAK QUESTIONNAIRE FOR THE BARRIERS DEFINED BY THE YOUNG PEOPLE

The values defined that 1-5 scale, the listed problems with the values affect the subjects of the questionnaire.

So it can be summarized that the young people in Muratpaşa suffers mostly from the work load of lessons, exam stress, and the inefficiency of the education system. 

3,9	The workload of the lessons
3,88	Exam Stress
3,8	Inefficiency of the Education System
3,646667	Insomnia
3,58	Lack of free time activity places
3,56	Lack of freedom of idea
3,526667	Lack of motivation
3,52	Bad of effects of friends
3,5	Lack of concentration
3,36	Exhaustion
3,333333	Family Pressure
3,32	Lack of Enthusiasm
3,306667	Lack of self-confidence
3,3	PC addiction-internet addiction
3,3	Being misdirected (miscounseling)
3,273333	Lack of self-realisation
3,206667	Financial Problems
3,206667	Inability to trust others
3,193333	Drug Addiction
3,153333	Loneliness
3,14	Health Problems
3,09	Unsociability
3,06	Barriers for the young with special needs
3	Unconscious Consumption
3	Being subjected to violence
2,986667	Sexual Harassment
2,96	Barriers of Adaptation
2,953333	Losing own identity
2,926667	Unemployment
2,833333	Transportation problems
2,56	Limitations at boarding schools
2,466667	Heavy Traffic

CIAK TURKEY 2nd Meeting

On the 21st of November 2012, CIAK Turkish Group met at Gebizli Secondary School Meeting Room. 10 more students from the secondary school were also invited to join the activities.

Firstly, the meeting started with the short description of CIAK Project to the other activity participants. And then the following activities were conducted.

1)      Ice-breaking and warm up: Young people are wanted to find a pair from the group and introduce themselves. After two minutes, the partners talk about each other to the whole group.

2)      Look at the visuals and talk: The young people are given the list of pictures and they are wanted to tell and explain the effects of the kind of problem/barrier they associate each picture with.

3)      The previous activity brought again the “communication barrier” forward.  Connected with that, the activity that focuses the differences between the messages sent and the perception of them was conducted. In this activity, which is called “BUG” young people are wanted to draw a bug following the instructions one by one. Eventually, it is found out that, neither the  drawn bugs of all participants are similar nor any of them to the original. Which brought  post reflection session on communication?

4)      The other activity is conducted to increase the group Dynamics and communication. The groups try to pass over a hypothetical river all together, founding strategies to deal with the problem. The reflection session of this activity focuses on finding solutions and putting their plan into practice knowing that they have to act all together as a group to be successful.

5)      The final activity, also focuses on communication, appropriate leadership behaviours and communication. The imaginary sugar cube firm is managed by young people.  The leader finds out that if he/she consults the team for their opinion the rate of success is higher. At the same time, the participants find out that on the condition that they recognize their skills and capacities, it is more efficient for them to set goals for themselves.

6)       After the activities are over, the young people had a break for tea/coffee/soft drinks and cookies. 

2nd meeting video

Initial Meeting

The participants of the project were invited to get together and decide on the methodologies to be used in the project phases.

The following methods were preferred:

Questionnaires and Discussion of Results
Visuals
Brainstorming
Mind Maps
SWOT and TOWS matrices
Interactive Games with Reflection Sessions
Written and Oral Reports
Frequent Communication
Visits to different authorities of the district

CIAK First Meeting

The young people have shared the barriers they face in their daliy lives using visuals (either the photos they have previously taken, or from the internet they have chosen, each speaking of min. two barriers) being inspired by the photos, everybody shared opions how these affect them as barriers. 

Later on, we started to work in sub groups each group taking one of the major barrier into analysis and writing the reasons and the results of this barrier. 

Finally in order to see and summarize what we really find out as barriers for young people in Antalya we worked in two groups and listed all the problems that were mentioned either at the meeting or have been considered before the meeting by the participants. The listed items are planned to be used as a reference for the questionnaire to be conducted on approximately 250 other young people and analysed. 

After the first phase of the meeting, the second phase went on with the Education Manager. The brainstorm list prepared by groups presented to him. As he asked and answered about the problems/obstacles observed by Turkish young people and shared his opinons about them... Sometimes, bringing in some of the new implementations to be brought by the Turkish Government.