Issue: 101
2014 Spring/Summer collection of Argande, which was created within the Innovations for Women’s Empowerment in Southeast Anatolia Project implemented by GAP Regional Development Administration in partnership with UNDP with the financial support received from Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, was presented in a press launch held in 29 April.
Argande’s 2014 Spring/Summer collection was prepared by three successful designers Aslı Filinta, Deniz Yeğin and Nihan Peker under Hatice Gökçe’s coordination.
The designers created an impressive collection by interpreting their inspiration of Mount Nemrut’s fascinating location and magnificent status to their designs.
While Deniz Yeğin İkiışık was reflecting divine statues of Mount Nemrut which represents the multicultural structure of the region into her illustrations, Nihan Peker was inspired by Mountain’s desolateness which is in contradiction with its magnificence.
Aslı Filinta used broken statues in her designs’ patterns and she reflected astrological chart in form of walking lion found in relief of statues in her accessories.
Photo shooting of Argande which contains Mount Nemrut’s mystery within itself was done in foothills of Mount Nemrut by Tamer Yılmaz, who is the most successful fashion photographer in Turkey, in which Sema Şimşek, a renowned model, presented the collection.
Argande’s 2014 Spring/Summer collection can be reached from Mudo stores*, www.mudo.com.tr and www.enmoda.com .
*Argande products are available in Mudo stores which are listed below:
İstanbul: Albatı Mudo City, Akmerkez Mudo City, Carousel Mudo City, Cevahir Mudo City, Forum İstanbul Mudo City, Göztepe Optimum Mudo City, İçerenköy Carrefour Mudo City, İstinye Park Mudo City, Maltepe Carrefour Mudo City
Ankara: Ankamall Mudo City, Panora Mudo City
Antalya: Migros Mudo City, Alanya Mudo City
Bursa: Korupark Mudo City
Mersin: Forum Mudo City
İzmir: Agora Mudo City
Bodrum: Mudo City
Two separate meetings were held under the context of Local Working Groups activities, which were established at each project site –Special Environmental Protection Areas (SEPAs)- in Muğla and İzmir for preparing and implementing management plans.
Representatives of governorships, district administrations, provincial directorates, municipalities, Coast Guard, harbor managements, universities, local NGOs, which are among the stakeholders of Gökova, Datça-Bozburun, Fethiye-Göcek ve Köyceğiz-Dalyan and Foça SEPAs as well as UNDP Turkey representatives participated in the meetings.
Dialogue and budget have specific importance
In the meetings, in which Management and Action Plans were evaluated, Presentations were made on MCPAs and the project.
Project experts also delivered information on the recent situation in SEPAs. Situation analysis was also made in the meetings and opinions were exchanged to develop and improve this situation.
The opening remarks of the conference were made by the Undersecretary Mustafa Öztürk, UNDP Turkey Deputy Resident Representative Matilda Dimovska and General Director for Protection of Natural Assets of the Turkish Ministry of Environment and Urbanization Osman İyimaya.
İyimaya mentioned the protection-using balance, saying “We have to protect our seas white using them”.
Dimovska underlined the increase of protected areas
UNDP Turkey Deputy Resident Representative Matilda Dimovska underlined the important achievements made by the project and mentioned that the Turkey’s marine protection areas remarkably increased at the end of the project.
Dimovska emphasized that this increase is very important for the Mediterranean.
Call for new projects by Prof.Dr. Öztürk
Undersecretary Prof. Dr. Mustafa Öztürk pointed out the successful results achieved by the project in his speech.
Öztürk made clear that they are open to new projects saying “We wish these efforts to be guide for the next efforts”.
Prof.Dr. Öztürk called all the related academies, NGOs and parties to offer new projects.
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The training programme will be on TS EN ISO 50001 Energy Management System which is based upon efficient use of energy, which can be implemented in all sectors and in any enterprises and that can also be integrated with other management systems.
Participation to the training will be limited and participants who successfully completed this training may be eligible to be contracted to undertake EnMS trainings nationwide.
Improving Energy Efficiency in Industry Project is executed by the General Directorate of Renewable Energy of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources together with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) with the support of Global Environment Fund (GEF). Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization (KOSGEB), Turkish Standards Institute (TSE) and Technology Development Foundation of Turkey (TTGV) are the other partners of the project.
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A short film has been prepared about eight COMDEKS-SGP Turkey projects in Datca-Bozburun Peninsula/Turkey which applied a new generation conversation approach.
The film was produced by Datça Local History Association in partnership of ADC Production.
Exceptionally, the film explains a new generation conservation approach which is “landscape conservation approach”, and how it is applied into eight projects on the ground in Datca Bozburun Peninsula Key Biodiversity Area.
In a few weeks Turkish version displayed over 2, 5 thousand times in 13 different countries, and English version was displayed 278 times even it is brand-new.
Additionally the film took a place in ISFF- Datca (International Short Film Festival) as one of the special selections.
Photo: Ali Başağa Isuzu
Future Lies in Tourism Sustainable Tourism Support Fund is implemented in cooperation with Anadolu Efes, Ministry of Culture and Tourism and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in order to support local development through sustainable tourism projects.
The fund attracted a great interest from all around Turkey and received 417 applications from 66 provinces via gelecekturizmde.com .
Out of 417 applications, 188 applications were qualified for pre-evaluation criteria.
Applicants who are qualified to pass the pre-selection process with evaluations done in May will participate in “Sustainable Tourism and Project Development” training in İstanbul.
The UN General Assembly declared 6 April as the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace.
Created at the initiative of the International Olympic Committee and officially announced at the United Nations headquarters last August, the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace promotes the role of sport as a tool at the service of society and a universal tool for peace.
UNDP welcomed this decision as it marks a new step in the United Nations advocacy efforts to highlight the benefits of sport and healthy lifestyles on broader social development.
Sport seen as an important development tool
It builds self-confidence; sport empowers youth, promotes good health and plays an important role in the global effort to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs).
Sport belongs to everyone and has a common international language. Sport is also a strong unifying factor in the process of conflict transformation and peace building.
The convening power of sport makes it additionally compelling as a tool for advocacy and communication.
In this regard, UNDP has appointed sporting personalities as Goodwill Ambassadors with the objective of creating public awareness about development issues, while promoting tolerance and peace.
Among the UNDP Goodwill Ambassadors, six are sports champions - Ronaldo Nazario, Zinédine Zidane, Didier Drogba, Iker Casillas Marta Viera da Silva and Maria Sharapova.
They all agreed to give their time and their image to promote sustainable development through sports and they are now joining the United Nations and the global sports community to celebrate the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, highlighting how sport can contribute to education, health, gender equality, social inclusion, solidarity, tolerance, development and peace.
“The observance of the day help spread awareness about the importance of sport as a tool to build a peaceful and better world and to recognize the potential of sport to create positive social change across the globe. It is also an opportunity to unite and celebrate together.” said Didier Drogba on behalf of the UNDP team.
All Ambassadors reached out to the public in a series of posters to celebrate this day all together, as a team.
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International Entrepreneurship Initiative works to support improvement of entrepreneurship via its cooperation with over 70 institutions all across Turkey.
International Entrepreneurship Initiative was established in collaboration with Ministry of Development, UNDP, Habitat Center for Development and Governance and Vodafone Turkey Foundation.
The initiative organized a two-day meeting which gets 60 representatives from 40 foundations together between 17-18 April.
The meeting aimed the reinforcement of cooperation among institutions which are in the entrepreneurship ecosystem and which develop mechanisms to support the improvement of entrepreneurship ecosystem.
In addition, the meeting aimed to support expansion of the entrepreneurship support mechanisms which are concentrated in Istanbul to other cities.
During the meeting, debates focused on the subjects of development and sustainability of cooperation among entrepreneurship ecosystem’s stakeholders, associations of entrepreneurship ecosystem in Turkey with international process and actors, expansion of entrepreneurship support mechanism all across Turkey, development of entrepreneurship mentality in society, the place of universities in the ecosystem and association of universities with other stakeholders of ecosystem, strengthening the role of investment network and activation of entrepreneurship finance and improvement of entrepreneurship in different sectors.
The International Entrepreneurship Initiative aims to bring active actors of ecosystem together periodically through Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Meetings.
Startup Weekend Mediterranean was held between 25-77 April, in Antalya as part of the “Design Your Future” and the International Entrepreneurship Initiative programmes.
These programmes were brought into action with the partnership of UNDP, Ministry of Development, Habitat Center for Development and Governance, Vodafone Turkey Foundation and Microsoft.
Entrepreneur candidates, developers, designers and young entrepreneurs of the Mediterranean came together with the support of Viveka, Antalya Chamber of Commerce and Industry, TOBB Antalya Young Entrepreneurs Council and TOBB Antalya Woman Entrepreneurs Council, West Mediterranean Development Agency and Antalya International University.
During the event, six teams developed their innovative ideas into prototypes with the support of ten mentors as a result of a 48 hours intensive working.
The winner is “Bütçem Bu” (This is my budget)
Six teams brought their technology based mobile app and web project ideas to prototype level as a result of a 48 hours non-stop working and presented them for jury’s evaluation.
The winner was “Bütçem Bu” (This is my budget) application which facilitates planning a budget friendly vacation for domestic tourists and remake reservations that have previously cancelled.
“Mentee” application which makes career suggestions for young people and brings youth and professionals together was granted the second place.
Third place was shared by “Rate Now” which provides push notifications for hotels and “Destek Zone” which give distance specialist service for informatics problems.
Microsoft, which is one of the main partners of the event, will provide free office opportunity and consultancy support in Microsoft Innovation Center for a year for the winner “Bütçem Bu” team as an award.
Besides, top three teams were entitled to participate in “Innovation4Good” which will be held on 15 May in Ankara and in which a roundtable will be organized within the scope of the Design Your Future project.
Finally, all participants gained free access to DreamsPark software for a year.
United Nations Volunteers (UNV) is organizing Youth and Volunteerism Summit on 6th May at Istanbul Aydın University together with International Blue Crescent (IBC) and Istanbul Aydın University.
The objectives of the Summit are to promote volunteerism among university students and to understand their experiences and expectations on volunteerism.
In the panel part of the Summit the volunteering possibilities and the contribution of volunteerism to both individuals and societies will be discussed.
After the panel session with the participants from the representatives of different universities a workshop will be organized .In the workshop the result of the research conducted by Istanbul Aydın University for the university students and the participations of students to volunteer activities will be discussed.
During the summit CSOs and volunteer based organizations will have chance to explain themselves to participants at their stands that will take place in the university campus.
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Editor: Faik Uyanık
Assistant: Nazife Ece
Intern: Dilara Zengin
Contributors to this issue: Başak Saral, Burcu Morel, Deniz Özbek, Deniz Tapan, Gökmen Argun, İdil Şerifoğlu, Pelin Kihtir Öztürk
Cover photo: Datça-Bozburun Special Environmental Protection Area
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