GÜRSU MUNICIPALITY OPENS HORIZONS TO YOUTH’S FUTURE

Gürsu Municipality, which carries out important projects in order to enable young people to broaden their horizons in shaping their future, brings together the youth of Gürsu and Bursa with the youth of the world, thanks to the Eurodesk Contact Point it has established.

With the projects implemented throughout our country, Bursa and Gürsu, young people; The Eurodesk Contact Point was established by Gürsu Municipality in 2019 with the aim of ensuring their social, cultural, economic, societal and individual development and participation in active life.

With the activities carried out by Gürsu Municipality Eurodesk Contact Point; It is aimed to ensure that young people, institutions and organizations benefit from these programs in the most effective way by carrying out grant-supported European Union programs in the fields of education, culture, youth and sports. In addition, efforts are being made to ensure that young people take an active role in eliminating the negative prejudices that are being tried to be created about our country in Europe and to ensure the development of their foreign languages.

Thanks to Gürsu Eurodesk Contact Point with its 354 volunteer employees; Young people are brought together with platforms where they can put their ideas into practice by participating in both face-to-face and online information seminars at the point of getting to know EU programs. In this context, young people who want to take advantage of EU opportunities are offered the opportunity to participate in joint projects and activities carried out by beneficiary institutions all over Europe, as volunteers of the Gürsu Eurodesk Contact Point.

PRESIDENT MUSTAFA IŞIK: “WE WILL ENSURE LOCAL DEVELOPMENT WITH OUR YOUTH”

Gürsu Mayor Mustafa Işık, who said, “We are doing important work to support the development of the young people to whom we will entrust the future of our country,” said, “Thanks to our Collective Career Center, which we established to develop the employment and professional skills of young people, we help many young people achieve their career goals. This year, we applied for the ESC (European Voluntary Services) accreditation within the Turkish National Agency, in order to provide qualified personnel support and to catch up with new trends regarding the professions of the future, which our President constantly emphasized. With this document, by providing opportunities for the qualified young people of Europe for 12 months in the software workshop and youtube studio within the body of our Collective Career Center, for 12 months and without any payment from the municipality's budget, Work will be carried out to produce qualified value-added products, together with the employees of the organizations in our region and especially the organizations we are stakeholders. In addition, we aim to increase the export capacity of Bursa by activating e-commerce platforms by bringing together foreign students and volunteers, industrialists and businessmen in order to increase the capacity of the industrial organizations of which we are a stakeholder. These days, with the coordination of our Municipality Eurodesk Contact Point; We welcome 60 young people from Italy, Poland, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland in our Gürsu Adrenaline Park.” In addition, we aim to increase the export capacity of Bursa with the activation of e-commerce platforms by bringing together foreign students and volunteers, industrialists and businessmen in order to increase the capacity of the industrial organizations of which we are a stakeholder. These days, with the coordination of our Municipality Eurodesk Contact Point; We welcome 60 young people from Italy, Poland, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland in our Gürsu Adrenaline Park.” In addition, we aim to increase the export capacity of Bursa by activating e-commerce platforms by bringing together foreign students and volunteers, industrialists and businessmen in order to increase the capacity of the industrial organizations of which we are stakeholders. These days, with the coordination of our Municipality Eurodesk Contact Point; We welcome 60 young people from Italy, Poland, Germany, Lithuania and Switzerland in our Gürsu Adrenaline Park.”

Volunteer young people from many European countries are hosted in Gürsu Adrenaline Park, and Bursa and Gürsu are recognized on a European scale with the program created. While promoting our cultural heritage with the organized trips, local tradesmen are supported with tourism activities in these difficult days.