Media Project in Izmir

Name: Media Project in Izmir
Start: 2023-06-15
End: 2023-08-31
Location: İzmir, Turkey

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Turkey Art Study Art International +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The hosting organization was established in 2014 to enable young people in Turkey to develop knowledge, skills, positive attitudes, and behaviors. It implements the European Union's decisions, Council of Europe, and the United Nations in youth. The Association also maintains its activities by considering the universal sensitivities, global principles, and principles in human rights, participation, and environmental issues.

The working topics are:
1) Combating the Climate Crisis and Sustainability,
2) Youth Rights, Issues and Participation of Youth,
3) Healthy Life for Youth and Youth Workers,
4) Empowering Youth and Youth Workers,
5) Dissemination of Volunteering Awareness among Youth,
6) Capacity Building of Civil Society (only for youth organisations)
The organisation's target group contains all individuals and youth workers between the ages of 15-30 living in Turkey. From the target group, women, refugees, and disabled people have priority. In addition to carrying out activities to support young's personal development, Pi Youth Association also works on youth rights to solve the problems experienced by young people in our country. Pi Youth Association also determines its medium- and long-term strategies according to the European Youth Strategy Document and the current youth situation in our country. Since 2016, Pi Youth Association has published its annual activities and balance sheets on its website by the principles of transparency and accountability. It is also a signatory of the donor rights declaration.

The association's office team consists of 11 people including 8 professional employees and 3 part-time employees. There is also a volunteer team of local youth, with more than 100 active young people. The name of this volunteer team is Pixel Team. Pixel Team voluntarily supports all projects and activities of the Association. It consists of young people between the ages of 15-30 who regularly participate in the Association's activities and training in the Association's culture.

The hosting organisation is also a member of many national and international networks. The Association is a member of; Local Youth Organization Network (LYON), European Youth Foundation, Prisma European Network, and TechSoup Turkey. Also, it is a member of; IG Network, Youth and Environment Europe, Anna Lindh Foundation Euromed, Google for Nonprofits, Microsoft for Nonprofits, and AMSED Member Network. Pi Youth Association is also a signatory of the UN Global Compact.

The association is a local and non-governmental youth organization active in national and international fields and can reach many young people.

💼 What the programme involves

The developments in information and communication technologies have changed the institutions 'communication habits as well as the changing of the individuals' communication habits. For example, companies that previously used large budgets for newspapers, radio, and TV commercials are now spending almost the same budget to actively manage their social media accounts. Social media is becoming more and more important in civil society organizations, especially young people in the target group. Because it is both a communication tool that the organisation can get free of charge and a communication platform in which young people are most active.

The organisation would like to continue the project with the name "Digi-PIYA" in the light of this information, in order to improve the organizational capacity of the association in visibility studies and to achieve these skills to provide alternative business opportunities to the participants of the project. Within the scope of the project, the volunteers who are from Belgium will support the process of making all the projects and activities for the association more visible. The project will include volunteers in photography, social media, video editing and more. In addition to taking trainings on topics, they will also have the opportunity to practice these trainings on other days of the week. They will have the opportunity to receive basic Turkish conversation club in the project.

Participants will acquire new knowledge, skills, and opportunities to learn about a new culture and geography. The project, where will be held in İzmir, Turkey hosted by Pi Youth Association.

Tasks & Activities of the volunteers
• Managing the association's social media accounts / supporting local volunteers in charge of this topic
• To take photos and videos of the events and activities of the association organized where at the office and local partners’ places.
• To create a short film of associations activities and projects.
• For the social media, web sites and projects of association, prepare banner, brenda, advertisements. Preparing visuals. (You will have training about it)
• To organise and training workshops for local people about photography and video knowledge
• To writing blogs for in the website of volunteering activities.
• Organize an English-speaking club for local youth or organizing own project (Optional)
• Organizing cultural night (optional).
The volunteers will work five days a week between Monday and Saturday, a maximum of 35 hours a week including the Turkish Conversation Club. The volunteers will have two holidays per month.

🏠 Accommodation on site

There is a rented flat for our volunteers in Karşıyaka - Izmir. It is close-by to the office of the organisation. You can use ferry to reach the office, It will take around 20 minutes.It is a three-rooms apartment — 1 single room, two shared room, shared kitchen and shared bathroom. There is also a balcony and so you will live together with the other volunteers (European Solidarity Corps Volunteers) of the organization.

📍 About the location

İzmir is a live and cosmopolite city. It is one of the safest cities in Turkey for women traveling alone. You can enjoy day and night life then you can go back to your home using 7/24 public transportation. As a means of public transportation, you can reach different parts of the city by bus, metro, light rail system (izban) and ferry. You can visit this website to see transportation map of İzmir: https://www.izmir.bel.tr/tr/ulasim-haritalari-/507/2168

İzmir has busy schedule of trade fairs, events, exhibitions and congresses. Moreover, there are perfect places for summer destinations includes beautiful beaches like Çeşme, Seferihisar, Foça, Urla and Alaçatı. Nearly 1,000,000 young people between the ages of 15-29 live in İzmir and the total population of the city is 4.5 million. We have quite good infrastructure with sport centres, cafes, shopping malls, lots of nature and mountains.

🎒 Leisure activities

Regular free-time activities and training for their personal development are organised for the volunteers.

⚠️ Requirements

The organisation is looking for open-minded volunteers who want to immortalize and disseminate the work done with young people and children in different fields.
To apply you need to be between 18 and 30 years of age at the project start (18 is the minimum age to avoid an age overlap with the target group).

The association will be happy to host a volunteer who:
• is open-minded, friendly, enthusiastic, creative and communicative
• interested in digital tools and social media management.
• Motivated to taking photos and recording videos then editing them for our social media accounts.
• Willing to travel around Izmir to taking photos and recording videos of our volunteers’ activities in local partners.

Interested in this project? Create your account and apply online.