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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.