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THE TURKISH-GREEK CIVIC DIALOGUE PROJECT TEAMS
Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue Project Coordination Team was initially set up by young members of AEGEE-Ankara, AEGEE-Athina and AEGEE-Rodos. They have been in charge of the general grant management, financial management, coordination of events, thematic preparation, feasibility visits and overall promotion. Since the end of 2001 till 2005, many young people worked in different positions at different stages of the project, with the project manager remaining the same. Many different young people and middle aged were involved in the overall Project working on a voluntary basis for the last four years. Separate project teams and thematic committees were established for each and every single event under the project all working in coordination with the project coordination team in Ankara and Athens, as well as our partner organisation and AEGEE-Europe headoffice in Brussels. All the project teams were involved sometimes in conducting research, sometimes in finances, sometimes in cleaning toilets. Young people working for the project found themselves traveling quite often to Greece, hanging posters all around, leaving leaflets everywhere, being titled as “agents” or “spies”, being awarded with special dinners by majors. They discussed, they shaped, they made a magic out of nothing.
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THIS BOOK IS THE BEST GIFT FROM THE PROJECT FOR YOU!
I AM PROUD OF YOU ALL AND
YOU HAVE TO BE PROUD OF WHAT YOU ACHIEVED! Burcu...
They all left their marks, their efforts, sometimes more sometimes less. All had good and bad moments; but all learned something both about themselves and about the others. They all challenged themselves and their own prejudices with the dialogue and cooperation idea. They became friends; they changed their lands, their destiny and their lives. All of them deserve a big THANK YOU from all of us, and very special thank you from the Project Manager for their time, dedication and energy spent on this Project. It was a great pleasure to work and live with you all.
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