Canik Public Education Center
Canik Public Education Center
Canik Public Education Center is a public institution that offers various courses to people for realizing their potential and developing their skills within the scope of lifelong learning. Its main mission is to become an exemplary and preferred non-formal education institution, developing itself according to the conditions of the age, offering good conditions and quality education opportunities that are easily accessible for everyone. The center provides professional-technical and hobby courses for different interests and demands to disadvantaged groups who are disabilities and suffer from social, economic, cultural obstacles, with low vocational skills and competences. Through courses and training, the center aims to create an egalitarian and participative society. By attending these courses, people get the chance to have soft skills such as self-expression, self-reliance and receive content related to the course or training learning by doing. They received effective tools and approaches by trainers during courses and trainings to transfer these tools into their educational and professional life. The services provided by the center make contribution to target groups’ social and vocational life that enable them to be involved in educational and professional opportunities in the local society and to follow further opportunities throughout their life. Many local projects have been implemented by the Centre successfully.