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Avrupa'nın Geleceği Gençlik Derneği (FuturEurope Youth Association) was established in 2015 after 3 years of experience in the Boğaziçi University students club by a group of young people that would like to do something good for their country, society, and people.

FuturEurope (shortly FE) organizes and participates in local and international mobility activities to strengthen young people's personal and professional development through NFL and informal learning techniques. FE team believes that participating in an international project helps young people develop leadership skills, self-confidence, and a greater understanding of the world's complexities.

(AIMS, OBJECTIVES, AND PRINCIPLES)
-Providing foreign language development opportunity to young people living in Trabzon and all districts of it;
-Creating an international environment for young people living in Trabzon;
-Promoting Turkey to be a member of the EU;
-Education, culture, healthy lifestyle, and human rights project development;
-Strengthening personal development of youth through NFL and informal mobility programs,
-Supporting the professional development of new youth workers;
-To raise interest in Islamophobia, migration/refugees, radicalization, xenophobia issues on the international level;
-To gain positive behaviors on humanitarian issues such as mutual tolerance, empathy, marginalization, and xenophobia;
-To gain enthusiasm to fight against the thought which creates inequality and discrimination;
-Increase young people’s knowledge of human rights education and promotion and empowering them to take an active role in their communities and deal with human rights issues;
-To raise understanding of other cultures, enhance intercultural awareness and European values;
-To get to know deeper understanding of game-based learning and a full understanding of how to use this method for educational purposes;
-Raising awareness of how digital tools and new media can aid youth work and help to create a greater impact on present-day youth activities;
-Development of youth mobility projects and social activities;
-To provide local citizens, youth workers, and NGO members with information about the Erasmus program and other sources for funding their ideas;
-To promote the active participation of young people in the planning, preparation, implementation, and evaluation of international projects;
-To show the importance of sports to get rid of the stress of daily life;
-To show the importance of teamwork and solidarity to be successful;
-Raising social welfare and improvement of living conditions of the poor and socially disadvantaged groups of people;
-To have more active participation in society.

FuturEurope was founded to promote a socially active and responsible society. It aims to support the poor and socially vulnerable groups of people by increasing their welfare. The association aims are achieved by developing educational, social, cultural, and human rights-related projects locally and internationally. At present, FuturEurope develops and implements mobility activities for young people who want to become socially active Turkish and European citizens and wish to acquire new knowledge and improve their skills to meet the labor market. The foundation has participated in some projects within E+ programs. The team consists of very active and highly motivated professionals for youth programs and initiatives interested in improving youth education and social inclusion and development.

(TARGET GROUPS)
FE works with young people with fewer opportunities and has good practical experience integrating them into our projects. Many international events occur in rural areas where FE includes youth with fewer opportunities like unemployed young people, young people from geographically isolated regions, young people with a hard-social background (immigrant background living in our city, etc.), and economically disadvantaged young people. Furthermore, when FE is a supporting organization for mobility activities taking place abroad, FE guarantees to have half of the team consisting of young people with fewer opportunities because the FE team understands the importance of the positive impact these projects have on them.

(GEOGRAPHICAL REACH)
FE has been working in Trabzon since 2015. In 2021, the FE team plans to open Üsküdar/Istanbul branch as some active volunteers and ex-board members started studying/working there. They have great potential to create local and international activities to touch more young volunteers' lives.

(MAIN ACTIVITIES)
FE team and volunteers focus on different subtitles of human rights, including children rights, older people's rights, refugees and immigrants' rights, freedom of belief rights, gender-based violence and woman rights, tolerance, xenophobia and radicalization, and promoting a healthy lifestyle through sport, as well as digitalization of youth work and game-based learning tools that NGOs use in their daily work.