Who are we?
Utopia Art and Education Organization serve in the field of art, ecology, education, youth work, and culture. Our main idea is using non-formal education and art as effective tools for children, teachers, youth and lifelong learning programmes. By following this objective Utopia is coordinating International exchange projects, International training courses for youth, teachers, workshops, exhibitions, shows, and local festivals. Utopia’s artistic specializations are creative drama, theatre, photography, video, animation, creative handcraft, and music. Utopia believes the importance of nonformal education and lifelong learning and focus on the following topics: human rights, social exclusion, poverty, Environmental problems, cultural degeneration, democracy, children rights, children violence, children labor, children in prisons and local social other problems
The Team
In Utopia, project coordinators, educators, and volunteers work all together. Our project coordinators design project organizations in local and international level. Our educators are the ones who study art as a master and have pedagogical content knowledge at the same time. They are also highly experienced in youth works and school education. When it comes to our volunteers, they make contribution to their own personal development by participating in our social responsibility projects.
Did you know that you can get grants from the EU Erasmus Plus Programme to attend training courses in European countries?
Utopia believes that art is a very effective tool in terms of keeping students’ interest and motivation high in educational activities. These artistic activities are very important for students’ development of emotional, social, language and psychomotor skills. These also provide permanent learning by appealing to different senses for mixed-ability children. Accordingly, under the condition that each teacher use artistic activities actively in their classes, they can both support their students to develop their artistic skills and make learning process more permanent and enjoyable. Therefore, it is essential to be an artist in some way for each teacher.
Utopia aims to show the way to use artistic activities in parallel with the curriculum appropriately through the training courses organized for school members. They can also take this kind of courses in different countries with different groups of teachers by making use of the Erasmus Plus Programme
HERE you can find how to get funding to attend our courses.
As a school, you can take part in the activities by getting grants from the Erasmus Plus program and other opportunities by developing projects for the solution of the problems in your school and quality improvement. Training courses, strategic partnerships, exchange programs are some of these opportunities.
The Programme has an overall indicative financial envelope of 14.774 billion EUR under Heading 1 and of 1.680 billion EUR under Heading 4 of the EU Budget for the seven years (2014-2020). The annual budget is adopted by the Budgetary Authority. The budget of the Erasmus + Program for 2019 was announced as 3 billion Euros by the European Commission. For more information about Erasmus plus and application process click HERE.
utopia team
DUYGU ÖNCEL
Project Coordinator
AHMET ÖNCEL
Trainer
BENGÜ ERGİN
Project Coordinator
STEFANO D’ARGENIO
Trainer
Dilara Vardar
Trainer - Designer
Sandra Huerto Machín
Trainer
Ezgi Bilgin
Trainer - Project Coordinator
İLKER UÇARER
Trainer
ŞENİZ TURAN
Trainer
GÖZEN YEŞİL
Project Coordinator
GAMZE ŞEBER
Trainer
DIETMAR VAN DER FORST
Trainer
EMANUELE NARGİ
Trainer
HÜLYA KARCI
Trainer
TONY CEALY
Trainer
PIERO RICIARDI
Trainer
ROBERTA LUCHINI BOSCHI
Trainer
ION SVET
Trainer – Videomaker
CAROL VANESSA PAEZ
Trainer
ELİF ŞANDAN DOYGUN
Trainer