{"id":865,"date":"2025-10-20T08:20:58","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:20:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cidec.eu\/pi-youth-association-turkey-2\/"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:51:47","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T16:51:47","slug":"pi-youth-association-turkey-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.cidec.eu\/en\/pi-youth-association-turkey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pi Youth Association &#8211; Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-27ef9fe0 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-info-box uagb-block-d444f0cc uagb-infobox__content-wrap  uagb-infobox-icon-above-title uagb-infobox-image-valign-top wp-block-uagb-info-box--has-margin\"><div class=\"uagb-infobox-margin-wrapper\"><div class=\"uagb-ifb-content\"><div class=\"uagb-ifb-separator\"><\/div><div class=\"uagb-ifb-title-wrap\"><h1 class=\"uagb-ifb-title\">About the association<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uag-blocks-common-selector uagb-block-25cf62e4 alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-16f5afa9\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-image aligncenter uagb-block-d63ffeec wp-block-uagb-image--layout-default wp-block-uagb-image--effect-static wp-block-uagb-image--align-center\"><figure class=\"wp-block-uagb-image__figure\"><img decoding=\"async\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.cidec.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pi_eng_300x300_0_0_2-3.png ,https:\/\/www.cidec.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pi_eng_300x300_0_0_2-3.png 780w, https:\/\/www.cidec.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pi_eng_300x300_0_0_2-3.png 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 150px\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cidec.eu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/pi_eng_300x300_0_0_2-3.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"uag-image-477\" width=\"182\" height=\"164\" title=\"pi_eng_300x300_0_0_2\" loading=\"lazy\" role=\"img\"><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-advanced-heading uagb-block-254b694e\"><p class=\"uagb-heading-text\"><strong><strong>Pi Youth Association is a youth-focused non-governmental organization<\/strong>based in Izmir, Turkey.<\/strong><\/p><div class=\"uagb-separator\"><\/div><p class=\"uagb-desc-text\">Pi Youth Association (PIYA) is a <strong>youth NGO<\/strong> established in 2014 to enable young people in <strong>Turkey <\/strong>to develop<br\/>knowledge, skills, positive attitudes and behaviours. PIYA implements the decisions of<br\/>the European Union, the Council of Europe and the United Nations in the<strong> field of youth<\/strong>. The association also maintains its activities taking into account universal sensitivities, global principles and principles relating to human rights, participation and environmental issues. The main topic of work is <strong>youth rights<\/strong>, <strong>youth issues<\/strong> and <strong>participation<\/strong>.   <br\/><br\/>The organization works at three levels:<strong> local, national,<\/strong> and<strong> international<\/strong>.<br\/>At the local level, it organizes activities in its offices, and at the same time has partners with whom it collaborates in its city. The partners are primary schools, middle and high schools, municipalities, youth centres and universities. All activities organized by volunteers are open to the local population and are free of charge.  <br\/><br\/><em>Currently, the association has 8 full-time employees, 2 part-time employees, 3 interns and about 150 volunteers. It also currently has 12 long-term volunteers and 1 short-term volunteer from the European Solidarity Corps (ESC). <\/em><br\/><br\/>The majority of the volunteers come from France. Indeed, two French youth organizations regularly send them<br\/>volunteers under the ESC programme. Volunteers mainly organize local activities such as<br\/>French conversation clubs, the promotion of French culture and values with European citizenship in<br\/>the framework of the Erasmus Plus and ESC programmes. The volunteers not only organize activities, they also help to strengthen partnerships with French organizations.<br\/>In addition, CES volunteers organize French conversation clubs at Dokuz Eyl\u00fcl University, one of the oldest public universities.   <br\/><br\/><strong>The Pi youth association mainly participates in EU-funded projects, such as Erasmus+ and the European Solidarity Corps. Through these projects, it can introduce EU values and promote living together. <\/strong><br\/><br\/>The CES volunteers it hosts, from Estonia, France, Germany and Poland, promote social and cultural diversity using non-formal tools, particularly during cultural evenings. These activities are organized in different regions of Izmir, which has a population of 4.5 million, and in particular with the city&#8217;s disadvantaged neighborhoods. Through the workshops of the CES volunteers, the association helps them to develop their personal and professional skills while offering them different exchange opportunities such as Erasmus+ and the CES projects. In this way, residents can learn about the values of the EU.   <br\/> <br\/><strong>Laurine<\/strong>, a French CES volunteer, also helped establish partnerships for the organization, and presented the P\u00e9lico project at a festival. She organizes French conversation clubs with children aged 7 to 11 in primary schools. As she has experience in civil society, including French civic service, she offered to share her knowledge with the local population, especially with children.  <br\/><br\/><strong>Ms. Beg\u00fcm \u0130ntepeler<\/strong>, President of the Association, is responsible for maintaining and executing all relationships<br\/>with local project stakeholders, such as public institutions and industry members<br\/>private sector (e.g. local municipalities, MEB public education centres, the Training Institute<br\/>\u0130zmir&#8217;s professional network, etc.). It already has contacts with primary schools whose language of instruction is the<br\/>French.  <br\/><\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-advanced-heading uagb-block-577af811\"><h3 class=\"uagb-heading-text\"><strong>The association carries out activities around six areas of work defined in consultation with young people:<\/strong><br\/><\/h3><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-icon-list uagb-block-e29d3134\"><div class=\"uagb-icon-list__wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-icon-list-child uagb-block-e170e70d\"><span class=\"uagb-icon-list__label\">1) Fight against the climate crisis and sustainable development,<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-icon-list-child uagb-block-0346ec65\"><span class=\"uagb-icon-list__label\">2) Rights, problems and participation of young people,<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-icon-list-child uagb-block-a7611cfd\"><span class=\"uagb-icon-list__label\">3) Healthy lifestyle for young people and youth workers,<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-icon-list-child uagb-block-16c907fd\"><span class=\"uagb-icon-list__label\">4) Empowerment of young people and youth workers,<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-icon-list-child uagb-block-f9cb58ea\"><span class=\"uagb-icon-list__label\">5) Raising awareness of volunteering among young people,<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-icon-list-child uagb-block-3357e601\"><span class=\"uagb-icon-list__label\">6) Civil Society Capacity Building (for youth organizations only)<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-block-db2d419d alignfull uagb-is-root-container\"><div class=\"uagb-container-inner-blocks-wrap\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-container uagb-layout-grid uagb-block-3e7a0fa1\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-uagb-advanced-heading uagb-block-165a3982\"><p class=\"uagb-heading-text\">Would you like to find out more about the organisation or go further? Click on the link! <\/p><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-outline is-style-outline--1\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-ast-global-color-5-color has-vivid-purple-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color has-border-color has-ast-global-color-5-border-color wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pigenclikdernegi.org\/en\/home\/\" style=\"padding-top:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-right:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30);padding-bottom:var(--wp--preset--spacing--20);padding-left:var(--wp--preset--spacing--30)\">Learn more about youth pi association<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pi Youth Association is a youth-focused non-governmental organizationbased in Izmir, Turkey. 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