Burcu has been a member of AEGEE (European Students' Forum) since 2000. She had the chance to work on a long-term conflict resolution Project "Turkish-Greek Civic Dialogue", financed by the European Commission. The Project included various events taking place in Greece and Turkey with numerous stakeholders and donors.

She later on was selected to the European Board of Directors of AEGEE-Europe, living and working in Brussels, Belgium for almost two years as the European Institutions Director.

Because of her task, she had intensive contacts with private donors and institutions, she got further experienced in grant applications, budgeting, reporting and lobbying.

Burcu is a member of the pool of trainers of AEGEE, AEGEE-Academy and she took part in various training events on financial management and fund-raising, project management and conflict resolution in different parts of Europe.

Burcu studied Translation and Interpretation and currently works as conference interpreter.

The YIP-ies will enjoy a week dedicated to fundamentals of both institutional and commercial fund-raising!

The training module will make participants more familiar with the basic instruments needed for successful financing for their projects including application writing, budgeting and reporting.

Very practical and case-based, participants will learn to identify their key stakeholders for Fund-Raising and to develop strategies for the funding of their projects.

A key element will be the exchange of practices in fund-raising that the diverse group of participants has made.

Morning sessions will focus on theory and exchange of practice, whereas in the afternoon sessions, we will be more practical and meet local community members to learn their FR stories and to put FR into practice.

The training course aims at empowering participants to successfully fund raise for their individual, group or community projects they are currently engaged or will be engaged in the future!