YOUTH AND FIRST DEMOCRATIC&CIVIL NEW CONSTITUTION.

YOUTH AND FIRST DEMOCRATIC&CIVIL NEW CONSTITUTION

Dates & Venue•Dates: 26.08.2012 – 01.09.2012•Venue: Konya – Turkiye

Youth Democracy Projects (Action 1.3) Overall Objectives:

1. To increase the consciousness of young people as active citizens by the development of representative democracy.

2. To raise the awareness of young people about the political and social problems.

3. To encourage young people for active participation and involve them to express themselves effectively, during the preparation of a new constitution rather than being passive about the issue.

4. To inform the Turkish youth about the EU establishment principles and the preparation process of EU Constitution.

Specific Objective:

To make contribution to the parts of the new constitution related to youth , which will be the first democratic and civil constitution of Turkey , by sharing experiences and suggestions with the help of 70 students from the universities from all over the country ,30 young people from Bulgaria, Greece and Romania.

Expected Outcomes1/2:

1. Young people's views and proposals about the new constitution discussed, and recommendations with new provisions in the constitution developed.

2. The parts of the eu constitution related to youth discussed,revised and reported by the young visiters who are from Greece, Romania and Bulgaria.

3. University-wide survey of youth carried out online in the framework of first democratic&civil new constitution in Turkey.

Expected Outcomes2/2:

4. Respect the constitution, at least 10 experts met with young people and diverse workshops regarding the new constitution and evaluation studies done, and studies that they did, reviewed and reported.

5. The new booklet developed according to the outputs and recommendations relating to youth on the Constitution.

6. On the subject, written and visual media and the public informed with social media tools, such as youth voice project website and any others.

7. Young people had the chance to make their voice heard by decision&policy makers in order to prepare a better youth policy.

Proposed Activities:

The proposed activities will be carried out in Konya together with all of the participants from 7 regions of Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece.

Youth and First Civil Democratic Constitution

Venue of Conference: Konya Hilton Garden Inn Hotel

Activity Plan

26 August 2012•14.30 - 19.45 Arrivals and registration•20.00 - 23.00 Dinner

27 August 2012•08.45 - 09.45 Breakfast•09.45 - 12.00 Opening•12.00 - 12.15 Energizers and ice breaking gamesc•12.15 - 13.30 Get to know each other and name games(Seçil Alaca)•13.30 - 14.30 Lunch•14.30 - 15.30 Expectations and fears(Seçil Alaca)•15.30 - 17.00 Youth’s expectations about youth poltics – Prof. Dr. Necdet Sağlam•17.00 - 17.30 Coffee Break•17.30 - 18.00 Intercultural Learning – Eirini Giankou•18.00 - 19.00 Groups’ presentations (Moderator: Seçil Alaca)•19.00 - 20.30 Let’s meet (Pancho), Intercultural Night: You are kindly invited to have a glass of Turkish Tea with us!.. •21.00 - 22.30 Dinner

28 August 2012• 08.45 - 09.45 Breakfast• 09.45 - 10.30 Energizers and ice breaking games (Eirini Giankou -

Seçil Alaca)• 10.30 - 11.30 3 Countries’ Constitutions Presentations (Greece,

Bulgaria, Romania)• 11.45 - 13.30 EU Constitution Presentation & TR Constitution

( Assoc.Prof. Çetin Arslan)• 13.30 - 14.30 Lunch• 14.30 - 15.30 Free time• 15.30 - 17.00Environment and Constitution (Dr. Feza Sencer

Çörtoğlu)• 17.00 - 17.30 Coffee break• 17.30 - 18.30 Active Citizenship, civic participation, constitutional

arrangements related with topic (Ersin Şenel)• 18.30 - 19.00 Energizers and ice breaking games (Eirini Giankou -

Seçil Alaca)• 19.00 - 20.00 Go Around of the World & See Konya-Culture of

Konya• 20.30 - 22.00 Dinner

29 August 2012 •08.45 - 09.45 Breakfast•09.45 - 10.00 Energizers and ice breaking games (Eirini Giankou-Seçil Alaca)•10.00 - 11.30 Presentation of survey results (Gizem Demirer)•11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break•12.00 - 13.45 Discussion and evaluations/recommendations (Serdar Kütahya-Assoc.Prof. Faruk Bilir)(Moderator: Seçil Alaca)•13.45 - 15.00 Lunch •15.00 - 16.30 Presentation of NGO representatives(KAGEM-F.Günseli Özkan, TÜTEV-Sibel Yıkılmaz, Deniz Bulkur), Youth Organizations, Academics, Journalist, The Ministry of Youth and Sports (Mesut Özbaysar)•17.00 - 20.30 Free Time•21.00 - 23.00 Dinner & Mid-term evaluation(Seçil Alaca)

30 August 2012•08.45 - 09.45 Breakfast•09.45 - 10.00 Energizers and ice breaking games (Eirini Giankou-Seçil Alaca)•10.00 - 11.30 Vision Ambassadors workshop (Moderator: Özgür Yaşar Akyar-Gürkan Akçaer) •11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break•12.00 - 13.30 Vision Ambassadors workshop (Moderator: Özgür Yaşar Akyar-Gürkan Akçaer)•13.30 - 14.30 Lunch•14.30 - 19.00 Visit the official institutions and the discovery of Konya•19.30 - 20.30 Watching Video of Sema Show•21.00 - 23.00 Dinner

31 August 2012 • 08.45 - 09.45 Breakfast• 09.45 - 10.00 Energizers and ice breaking games (Eirini Giankou-

Seçil Alaca)• 10.00 - 11.30 Preparation of Booklet of Youth and the New

Constitution• 11.30 - 12.00 Coffee break• 12.00 - 14.00 Preparation of Booklet of Youth and the New

Constitution • 14.00 - 15.30 Lunch• 15.30 - 17.00 Visual design of the booklet and finalization of the

materials collected • 17.00 - 17.30 Coffee break• 17.30 - 18.00 Energizers and ice breaking games (Eirini Giankou-

Seçil Alaca)• 18.00 - 20.00 Dissemination in social media• 20.30 - 23.00 Dinner

1 September 2012 •08.45 - 09.45 Breakfast•09.45 - 10.00 Turkish Coffee Time •10.00 - 12.00 Final Evaluation•12.00 - 13.00 Departure of participants

Dear participants,

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We shall provide breakfasts, lunches & dinners. So, you need only some euros pocket money for your personal expenses. You will have chance to see different bazaars, you may interest in shopping. The currency in Turkey is the Turkish Lira (TL). For currency you can search in google: Euro/TRY(Turkish Lira)