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Youth Deal
Cooperative!

Genç İşi Kooperatif is a scientific research, development and education cooperative.
At Youth Deal Cooperative, we are committed to fostering an equitable, democratic, and sustainable economy through the principles of cooperativism. Our organization is dedicated to ensuring that all segments of society have equitable access to decent work opportunities.
Genç İşi Kooperatif works to ensure that all segments of society have access to decent job opportunities.
Youth Deal Cooperative facilitates access to employment, sustainable livelihoods, and socio-economic rights, particularly for marginalized groups. Our aim is to expand the social solidarity economy, recognizing its potential to foster inclusive growth and development.
Genç İşi Kooperatif aims to popularize the social solidarity economy.
Youth Deal Cooperative is an advocate of fair, democratic, and sustainable methodologies, as evidenced by our own operational experiences. In pursuit of these ideals, we engage in capacity-building and research activities.
Services
Strategic consultancy and capacity development
We work to build capacities of the social solidarity economy actors, especially cooperatives. We provide capacity building services for initiatives that seek to organize under cooperatives or to improve their cooperatives.
Project development and implementation
We design, develop and implement projects for the improvement of the social solidarity economy.
Training
We design and implement training programmes for social solidarity economy actors and cooperatives based on their needs. We offer post-training monitoring and evaluation services.
Field research
We collect, analyze and report qualitative and quantitative data on cooperatives, labor market and livelihoods.
Cooperative advisory and advocacy
We offer advisory and advocacy services for the improvement of cooperative entrepreneurship.
Youth Employment Research Report
Youth Employment Research Report Youth Deal Cooperative, in collaboration with the International Labour Organization, published its report titled “Youth employment in Turkey: Structural…
Strong Women Strong Cooperatives
Strong Women Strong Cooperatives Genç İşi Kooperatif, Youth Deal Cooperative, supported by the Sabancı Foundation, has initiated the “Strong Women Strong Cooperative” capacity-building…
Rapid Assessment Report: Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes
Rapid Assessment Report: Kahramanmaraş Earthquakes The southern provinces of Turkey were shaken by two massive earthquakes 9 hours apart on Monday, February 6, 2023.…
New Generation Cooperatives Society
The “New Generation Cooperatives Society”, also known as the “NewGenCoop” Project, marked its culmination with a closing conference on June 24, 2022, in Ankara. This significant event brought together project partners, international delegates, national public institutions, cooperatives, and NGOs active in the cooperative ecosystem, highlighting the collaborative spirit of the initiative.
Projects
What Our Partners
SAY ABOUT US?
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Thanks to the innovative team of the Youth Deal Cooperative, the international workshop fueled creative discussions, and paved the way for possible future collaborations. We appreciate the Youth Deal Cooperative for the networks it mobilized before the workshop and for its skillful moderation of the discussions. We support them in their efforts to internationalize cooperative knowledge, and hoping to collaborate with them in the future
THE HOLLINGS CENTER (2018)
Sınır Tanımayan Kooperatifçiler
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Thanks to this training, the Youth Deal Cooperative translated the Think.Coop training module of International Labour Organization (ILO) into Turkish.
END-OF-ACTIVITY REPORT (2018)
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We obtained relevant information on the role and duties of municipalities in development of social cooperatives within existing legal and administrative framework, and we had the opportunity to devise our roadmap with the Youth Deal Cooperative.
PARTİCİPANT ASSESSMENT QUESTİONNAİRE (2018)
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Youth Deal Cooperative has shared the proceedings of the international networking action through national dissemination workshops, the Co-op produced a conceptual framework for Turkey's social cooperative movement thus contributed to national lawmaking.
CİHAN HÜROĞLU (2019)
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Economic system is embedded into social system and it has its ecological limits. Unless we accept this, it is not possible to correctly face with the ongoing crisis. To overcome this crisis, we need to cooperate - not compete.
Prof. Aylin Çiğdem Köne
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Here, they don’t think highly of Syrians. There are too many young people, and the quality of the jobs does not fit us. People tell us that we take their jobs from them. Life and working conditions are very difficult, and that’s why we, young people remain unemployed.
SURVEY RESPONDENT (2016)
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Particularly the information on legislation, advantages and disadvantages, and relations with local administrations was very useful. We developed our roadmap based on this report, and we worked very efficiently together.
KENTİMİZ İZMİR ASSOCİATİON (2018)
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Projects that we wanted to conduct as İZSİAD became meaningful. Consultancy provided by the Youth Deal Cooperative enabled us to discover our social sensitivity and responsibility areas, and to come up with sustainable solutions.
İZSİAD (2018)
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With its efficient and dynamic team, the Youth Deal Cooperative brought innovative methods to the traditional structure of our long existing cooperative. We derived substantial benefit from using digital tools, and from participation of our personnel in the learning process with an institutional perspective.
S.S. BOSCH EMPLOYEES FOOD RETAİL COOPERATİVE (2018)
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Research Tasks
Capacity Building Activities
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Together with leading experts in the sector, we work to build an equitable/sustainable/democratic economy.
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Contact Address
Genç İşi Kooperatif
Mansuroğlu Mah.
286/1 Sok. No:1 D:215
35535, Bayraklı, İzmir


