Provincial National Education Directorate Of Eskisehir

1. Provincial National Education Directorate Of Eskisehir C.A.S.E.S WORK Collaborative and Social Enterprises as a New Model of Economic Activity and Work Opportunity PRELIMINARY CONTACTS AHMET TATAR CASES 2nd consortium meeting Groningen 11th & 12th of April 2013

2. Social Entrepreneurship in Turkey • In the concept of social entrepreneurship , there are • foundations, • cooperatives, • associations • social managements • in our country. • The number of the non- governmental organizations increases every year. Beside this, they also need to strengthen their financial, legal and functional bases and they think that it is necessary to improve the civil society by the way of social enterprise, research and international relations. In our country, TÜSEV tries to fill this gap ahmettatar26@gmail.com

3. CENTER FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION TURKEY • Center for Social Innovation (SIM) is a social enterprise established by a group of academicians and civil society specialists to carry out social innovation work within the areas of Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility and Volunteerism, Capacity Building for Civil Society and Corporate Development and to carry out Social Researches, Database and Publications with this respect. • www.sosyalinovasyonmerkezi.com.tr, ahmettatar26@gmail.com

4. The Social Enterprise Web Portal acts as a communication platform forall that want to learn, support or establish social enterprises in Turkey ahmettatar26@gmail.com

5. Tusev is one of our pioneer civil society organizations that could combine the other CSOs under a heading. In 2010, TUSEV launched the “Social Entrepreneurship Project” with cooperation and support of the British Counciland create a social entrepreneurship web portal (http://www.sosyalgirisim.org/ ). ahmettatar26@gmail.com

6. It is an organization that offers opportunities to women who have never worked for pay before, utilizing their hand-craft skills to make useful and stylish items out of throw-away materials. • http://www.copmadam.com/tr, ahmettatar26@gmail.com

7. The Dreams Academy is an arts academy, which envisions a brand new career and experience for young people with disabilities and social disadvantages, and aims to integrate these people into social life. • http://www.ayder.org.tr, • http://www.duslerakademisi.org, ahmettatar26@gmail.com

8. Buğday Association aims • to create sustainable models that support wholesome living and producing. • to support small farmers and creating awareness for organic produce in Turkey • to set up the 100% ecological farmers’ markets • www.bugday.org, ahmettatar26@gmail.com

9. A Turkish proverb says ; • “Travelling broadens minds more than reading”. • So GENCTUR thinks that travelling is a good way to learn about and understand each other. • http://genctur.com.tr, ahmettatar26@gmail.com

10. People have prejudices about each other, other nationalities, cultures, religions, etc. • These prejudices may grow, if the owner has no effort to understand the other side • but also may disappear if the owner meets, observes, lives together with the other side. • The way of doing this is travellingtravelling. ahmettatar26@gmail.com

11. General information • Despite the social entrepreneurship is a new issue in Turkey, there are many good practises in our country. • As a result, the social entrepreneurship is a new model for our country. • This project will support the activities in terms of social entrepreneurship in Turkey. ahmettatar26@gmail.com

13. Thank You AHMET TATAR Email: ahmettatar26@gmail.com Tel: 0090 505 5715219 PROVINCIAL EDUCATION DIRECTORATE OF ESKISEHIR / TURKEY