As Cagdas Yasami Destekleme Dernegi (ÇYDD), the Mentorship Project for university youth, which we have been implementing since 2012, has been completed by reaching a total of approximately 1500 mentees and mentors with 739 pairings and 62 ÇYDD branches in the 2023-2024 Term (12th Term). For the 2024-2025 term, it is aimed to match 1000 mentees-mentors after the applications, interviews and trainings of the candidates. In the new term of the ÇYDD Mentorship Project, new arrangements will be focused on needs and expectations. In the light of the research studies conducted; Institutional collaborations will be increased in order to achieve the development goals of the project and efforts will be made to provide new opportunities compatible with the career goals of the mentees participating in the project. In this direction, it is aimed to make the ÇYDD Mentorship Project more effective and efficient for our scholarship youth.
The purpose of the Mentorship Project of Cagdas Yasami Destekleme Dernegi;
*To bring together students who are receiving a ÇYDD scholarship or young Contemporary Youth volunteers who are studying at university and adults who have experienced similar difficulties in a learning relationship that will nourish both parties, and to ensure that graduates share the knowledge, skills and experiences they have gained in their academic, business and personal development with scholarship recipients.
*To support our scholarship recipient students who are in the transition phase to business life while preparing them for their careers; to help them meet the knowledge, experience and resources they may need for their personal and professional development, to help them become self-directed individuals by getting to know themselves, increasing their self-confidence and career awareness.
*The ÇYDD Mentorship Project aims to reach out to graduates who received a ÇYDD scholarship in previous periods and strengthen their sense of commitment, to reach new volunteers and encourage civic participation, to support the personal development of graduates with various motivation programs, to establish a sustainable mentoring program with an increasing mentor trainer pool and volunteer mentor group every year and to implement it in all branches.
To date, more than 4,500 CYDD university youth have been provided with mentoring support through the Mentorship Project.
Mentorship Supervision and Seminar Meetings
ÇYDD Mentorship Project continued to be carried out in digital environment and continued to organize Mentorship Supervision and Seminar meetings.
We continued to come together with all stakeholders of our project with Mentorship Supervision and Seminar meetings that we held at regular intervals every 15 days.
With these meetings that we initiated in order to increase the interaction between our mentors, mentees and branch coordinators, we ensured that successful and challenging examples were explained within the framework of the principle of confidentiality regarding what was experienced in the mentorship journey and received feedback.
We continued our project by providing supportive training for the personal and career development of our mentees and supervision activities for our mentors until June.
Our project is supported by the Dalyan Foundation.
Detailed information on the ÇYDD Mentoring Project can be reached from the file below.