INTERNATIONAL INTERACTION SOCIETY IIS!
International Interaction Society was founded in Ankara on 21.08.2006, mostly by the young businessmen living in Ankara and received education abroad, the academicians and foreign bridegrooms and brides (expats) as a common platform bringing different cultures together.
IIS MISSION & VISION
Our VISION is to share the cultural richness of every country under today's conditions in parallel with the globalization process of the world which is now called as a "global village"; and to establish, within the framework of social voluntariness, the polyphony and eventually a worldwide interaction by means of setting up cultural bridges the base of which is made of peace, rapprochement, reciprocal respect and love.
Our MISSION is to help the adoption of the culture of living together by means of cultural exchange with the people with foreign nationality that live in Ankara, to establish the mutual understanding and, for this purpose, to make contribution to a love and peace atmosphere encompassing all humanity without any kind of discrimination between the languages and races.
PROJECTS
Through the relations between Turkey and European Union, various types of grant programmes have been possible to apply since 2003, and International Interaction Society (IIS) involved in these programmes by means of its social and cultural activities since 2006. The activities, which are organized weekly, monthly and yearly within a programme, are worked up into projects throughout certain periods like six months, year or years. The projects are prepared and submitted mainly to EU, T.R. Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Public Institutions and other foundations to be granted. International Interaction Society has functions in these projects as coordinator, host, sender or the partner. IIS is going to continue to generate new and more comprehensive projects in the near future.
IIS concerns many types of projects: EU Education & Youth Programmes, Projects Developing the Civil Society Dialogue, Social Awareness Raising Projects and Projects applied to the Foreign Mission Representatives are among the basic project proposals that IIS implements. In Turkey’s EU accession, it is aimed to merge Turkish and European citizens, to learn the other cultures, to increase the European citizenship of Turkish people, particularly the youngsters, to create the awareness on social matters with the activities of the projects mentioned and realized in different countries.
Especially with Youth Programmes, European Voluntary Service - EVS (since it is open to all young people between 18-30), IIS hosted 7 young volunteers from Portugal, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Italy and Latvia to create them to work in and organize the activities varying between 6 months to one year. On the other hand, 15 Turkish youngsters were provided to go abroad in Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Macedonia to work for NGOs voluntarily and visit these countries. In a word, IIS has performed / performing 10 projects since it was established in 2006. The names and general information of these projects are as below:
IIS Executive Board
Mesut Gümüşdoğrayan - Architect / Chief of Executive Board
Barbaros Sarıcı - Businessman / Executive Board Member, Vice President
Murat Şahin / General Secretary
Mahmut Aydoğan - Businessman / Board Member
Emre Katırcı - Businessman / Board Member
Birsen Göndiken - Financial Advisor / Board Member
Selahattin Sabah / Board Member
Cihan Özgülcü / Lawyer / Legal Advisor
Haluk Koç / Board Member
İsmet Tosun - Businessman / Board of Control
Onur Harman - Businessman / Board of Control
Fadime Yılmaz - Manager Assistant / Board of Control
Rıdvan Genç - EU Project Coordinatoor
A. Murat Fatsa - Educationist / IIS Editor in Chief
Emre Gümüşdoğrayan - Football Manager / Activity Coordinator
Muhammed Kutluca - Businessman / External Affairs
IIS OFFICE PHOTOS
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