ESC: Koz-Der Go to PORTUGAL-8

Founded in 2019, KOZ-DER in Kilis focuses on bridging gaps between refugees and locals through intelligence games and sports, targeting disadvantaged youth.
Our foundation was established in January, 2019.It has 1 center in Kilis, Turkey and 50 volunteers. First activity of Our
association is to create a game marathon between refugees and Turkish children. The association focuses on games
activities in the evaluation of leisure time, which has become a social and individual need, to organize competitions and
similar activities consisting of intelligence, mathematics and logic games, to identify, develop and become knowledge
society for individuals to use knowledge creatively. To make projects to accelerate the process, to contribute to the
creation of products that will use the collective intelligence that will be needed by the information society, to make
projects in the fields of youth, education and culture, sports and mind games, to organize activities, competitions,
tournaments in various sports fields and to give trainings to young people, and to spread intelligence games. to
develop, to promote intelligence games and work to increase the level of success and to provide support to the people
and organizations that work on this issue tour. The association also focuses on integration of refugees in Kilis, where
there is 200.000 registered refugees. Our aim is to make connection between Turks and Refugees with the games.
Aims and Objectives:
KOZ-DER was established to enable and develop the youth information and youth work. We are aiming to
establish new partnerships with individuals and organizations which are working in this field, take
responsibility to be executive and develop their activities which will be implemented via cultural, sport
and art activities.
Organisation directs its work mainly towards the target group consisted of especially socially and
economically disadvantaged young people aged 15-30.
Activists with the following aim(s);
1. to fight with hate speech, exclusion and ethnocentrism and xenophobia
2. Supporting personal and social development of young people
3. Promoting active citizenship and democracy among the society
4. Encouraging young people to take initiative and participate in democratic life
5. inclusion and integration activities for disadvantaged young people and immigrants
6. To carry out researches for the activation and development of children activities,
7. To teach and disseminate robotic coding and intelligence games.
8. To raise awareness about environmental, educational and social problems of children, young people and
people of the city by acting in partnership with the National Education, Municipality, University and other NGOs
in our city.
9. To participate in tree planting activities in certain places with children and youth, to organize informative
seminars on this subject.
10. To create awareness on "recycling" by designing games and robots from waste materials as well as brain
games and Robotic coding effectiveness.
11. To develop and spread intelligence sports,
12. Making studies in order to educate more beneficial individuals to the society by giving various trainings in the
fields of coding and software,
13. To establish platforms to realize a common goal with other associations or foundations, unions and similar non-
governmental organizations in areas.