THE:PLACE

Period:
01/11/2021 - 31/10/2025
Countries involved:
European Union
Turkey
Donor:
Stiftung Mercator
SDG:
17
Lead partner:
ALDA & MAD
All partners:
ALDA MAD – Center for Spatial Justice
Contacts:
Giulia Sostero
projects@alda-europe.eu

AT A GLANCE

THE:PLACE — Türkiye Hand in hand with Europe: Programme for Local Authorities and Civil society Exchange aims to build up lasting Turkey — European Union networks of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) that work on local issues, promoting an exchange aimed to increase their capacity to create meaningful impact in their respective areas of work.

OBJECTIVES

THE:PLACE programme aims to favour the empowerment of Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) and Local Authorities (LAs) as actors of local development, through specific capacity building, peer learning and joint cooperation on co-designed common projects.

The programme seeks to create quadrilateral partnerships composed of 1 CSO based in Türkiye associated with 1 LA + 1 CSO based in the EU associated with 1 LA.