İSTANBUL BİLGİ UNIVERSITY CHILDREN’S STUDIES UNIT

İstanbul Bilgi University Children’s Studies Unit aims at the realisation of children’s rights and the fulfilment of the opportunity for every child to be all she or he can be and carries out research and empowerment based studies to support the relevant stakeholders.

Carrying out all its activities with the active participation of the children, the Unit endeavors to contribute to the policies developed concerning children.

The Target mass of the Children’s studies unit are children aged between 0-18, those organizations working with children and those who contribute to the development of child policies.

Objectives of the Children’s Studies Unit:

For the realisation of children’s rights and the fulfilment of the opportunity for every child to be all she or he can be;

• - Increasing awareness among the stakeholders concerning children’s rights and empowering them in their protection
• - Development of knowledge and competencies, critical thinking skills and their inclination to learning so that the children can realize themselves to be all she or he can be
• - Enhancing participation of children in every field including decision and policy-making
• - Enhancing and sustaining interdisciplinary cooperation concerning children within and out of the university.
• - Acting as a mediator for the accumulation and linkage of the resources of the society and the university.
• - Keeping the requirements of the children on the agenda and enabling active participation of the related stakeholders.

Functions of the Children’s Studies Unit:

• - Making researches within the field and dissemination
  
  • Development of requirements based researches concerning children and providing fort he utilization of various target masses.
• - Producing models to be replicated by means of Project development, implementation and dissemination
  
  • Endeavouring to enable equal opportunities for all children, development of local projects for children, implementation and monitoring, transfer of knowledge.
• - Empowerment, training and support programs for stakeholders working with children
  
  • Developing projects on awareness raising on children’s rights and dissemination, monitoring of relevant projects
  • Encouraging the stakeholders on their child focused endeavours for and with children

Principles of the Children’s Studies Unit:

• - Giving priority to children in all fields and protection of his/her best interests.
• - Supporting the lif and the development of the children.
• - Respect for differences and nondiscrimination
• - Encouraging Participation
• - Realizing one’sself