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Non-Formal Education Center established by active youth workers and trainers in Ankara. By becoming a legal entity in 2012, our association has started to its studies and projects with its dynamic and young team. Our association, its members, administrative body and consultative body have generous experiences by participating youth projects from all over the world. Our team’s main objective is to share their experiences with youth people. Main purpose of the Non-Formal Education Center is to thrive and to increase the abilities/skills of youth people by using peer method on youth volunteers. The mission of the Non-formal Education Center is the active citizenship of the youth people therefore our association opened up its doors to all participants from all over the world.

Non-Formal education can be explained as learning by doing. It contains many tools and methods in accordance with the field of education subject. Teaching is not just possible by teachers but also possible by trainers and facilitators. Participants are having a chance to experience both formal learning and active learning methods. Instead of using classing classroom system for the education process, by non-formal education, more comfortable and physically active classroom systems are being used. Under the frame of non-education system, in accordance with learning by doing theme, simulations, games, activities, debates and sharing tools are being used by trainers and facilitators for the education method. Non-Formal education is active learning and internalization based on experiencing by learning by doing.

Non-Formal Education Center is a contact point in Eurodesk. We are working in youth information field because of that we are using really actively Eurodesk and we are organizing youth meeting, training, seminars...etc. in the universities for the young people as Eurodesk Contact Point.