Mersin Olgunlaşma Enstitüsü
Mersin Olgunlasma Institution is a public adult education center founded in 2011 located in Mersin, which is one of the tourist cities in the coast of Mediterranean, Turkey. There are more than 18 workshops in our Institution. We have both vocational courses and courses for hobbies. Some of our branches are glass-ceramic technologies, embroidery technologies, handicraft Technologies, art design technologies, clothing technologies. In addition to this, we also organize vocational courses for immigrants and the people without the attainment of education.
Our Mission is to develop Traditional Turkish Handicrafts, Clothing and Life Culture in line with the principle of lifelong learning, to be a promotional face these arts at the national and international level, to educate these individuals to future generations, and to educate individuals who are entrepreneur, self-confident, success-oriented and open to learning but not have opportunity to get an education, and also provide vocational training courses. We organize exhibitions and fashion shows where we present our products. In 2019 we are broadening our branches in education. We will add the food industry to our branches. We have approximately 300 learners this year, but next year we are expecting more learners than now, so we are trying to expand our trainers' knowledge and experience in education. It is time for us to develop Erasmus+ projects. It will help us to share our experiences about art and culture with other institutions and other countries and learn new techniques on teaching from other institutions via Erasmus+ projects.
We have experienced in project management. In 2016, we have one granted Erasmus+ project. And we are partners in many granted projects from other financial support programs like Çukurova Development Agency call for proposals. The last one of our granted project is a Erasmus+ project about creating instructional videos in 2020. It is still continuing. So our staff is very experienced in projects. There are two key people for the execution of the projects. One of them is our director. The director of the institution has 35 years of professional experience and 12 years of managerial experience in crafts technology. She will contribute to the projects with both technical and administrative information that she has.
The other key person is vice- director. Our vice-director has 10 years of professional experience. He worked as an English teacher for 2 years, as project coordinator for 4 years and as assistant manager for 4 years. He supported the project management experience with academic studies by taking courses at both undergraduate and graduate level. He has attended in more than 10 youth, School education and vocational education projects as a participant. And 4 Erasmus+ projects as a coordinator. In addition to this he is still guiding more than 50 schools about Erasmus+ projects and Project Management. He is responsible for preparing the projects, communicating with the project partners and carrying out the projects in accordance with the activity flow of projects.
We are still preparing projects for the next deadline of the Erasmus programme and we are open to new cooperations in new project applications.
