About Us
Our association was established in 2023 as a
non-governmental organization based in Konya, Türkiye. While it is a newly founded institution, the extensive experience of its founding members in preparing and executing national and international projects serves as a significant advantage for our partners.
The association organizes sustainability-oriented research and activities that will contribute to the country's development, with contemporary approaches, regarding education, sport, and social problems in different sectors and academic disciplines, especially in Turkey and the international arena. The association develops, carries out and completes national and international projects to ensure the professional development and collaboration of people who aim to combat social problems. In this context, the association's main objectives can be listed as follows.
1. It brings together people active in the fight against social problems and, ensures their professional solidarity, and cooperates with relevant institutions and organizations in this regard.
2. It conducts scientific research and development studies on bringing 21st-century skills to society, supports hardware and software production, obtains patents, and carries out dissemination activities. It cooperates with relevant people, institutions, and organizations.
3. It researches sustainability-oriented needs throughout society, develops, implements, and disseminates contemporary solution proposals.
4. It increases the quality and efficiency of social benefit-oriented recreational activities that heal individuals physically and mentally, ensures that these activities keep up with contemporary developments, and provides leadership. It carries out activities to provide support and prepares, executes, and completes national and international projects to support the activities.
5. In line with these aims and objectives, it ensures the conduct and publication of scientific and technical research and the organization of scientific meetings such as symposiums, workshops, congresses, courses, seminars, and certified training programs. Organizing in-service training programs, courses, seminars, and participation programs regarding today's social problems and potential future issues regarding 21st-century skill areas training constitute the main working areas of the association.
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IERA, organizes sustainability-oriented research and activities that will contribute to the country's development with contemporary approaches regarding education, sport, and social problems in different sectors and academic disciplines, especially in Turkey and the international arena. The association develops, carries out, and completes national and international projects to ensure the professional development and collaboration of people who aim to combat social problems.
Our Team
EZGÄ° ERTÜZÜN
Prof. Dr.
One of the founding members of this association, Prof. Dr. Ezgi Ertüzün, has many experimental, descriptive, and relationship-seeking scientific the articles on essential areas such as autistic spectrum disorder, mental disability, and substance addiction at data base such as SSCI index. She has presented papers in English at important international congresses such as ECSS. She runs as the field editor of TJSE.
Prof. Dr. Ezgi Ertüzün is also the coordinator of the Erasmus+ project titled 'Now Fashion: Zero Waste' (Project Number: 2024-1-TR01-KA210-ADU-000246502), which has been approved for support. This project aims to promote sustainable practices in the fashion industry while reducing waste, further reflecting her commitment to addressing social and environmental challenges through research and collaboration.
She is the manager of a research project supported by the Scientific Research Projects Board of Universities, titled 'The Effect of Therapeutic Recreation Activities on the Social Skills of Children with Autistic Spectrum Disorder and Determination of Parents' Opinions on Therapeutic Recreation Activities: Mixed Study', carried out in cooperation with the Selçuklu Autistic Individuals Center.
Associate Prof.
DEMET AKARCAY ULUTAÅž
Assoc. Prof., who took part in the project and is the other founding member of the association. Dr. Demet Akarçay UlutaÅŸ received training on subjects such as crisis management, intercultural work, and economics at Fachochschule Worms, Germany, during the 2007-2008 academic period, and graduated from Hacettepe University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Department of Health Administration in 2010. Health policies, ethical dilemmas, social work with the disabled, family-oriented social work, trauma, cultural competence, multiculturalism, spiritual competence are the main professional areas of study.
Research Assistant
ÖZLEM YALÇIN KİŞİ
She completed her undergraduate education in the Department of Preschool Education at Bolu Abant Ä°zzet Baysal University between 2012 and 2016. She completed her master's degree in the Department of Physical Education Teaching at Bolu Abant Ä°zzet Baysal University between 2017 and 2021, with a thesis on "The Effect of Movement Education Activities on the Motor Skill Development of Preschool Children (Ages 5-6)." In 2021, she started her Ph.D. in the Department of Recreation at Akdeniz University, where she continues her studies.During her university years, she worked in various professional fields such as rhythmic gymnastics coaching, ballet instruction, and preschool teaching. In 2020, she started working as a research assistant in the Department of Recreation at Selçuk University’s Faculty of Sport Sciences, where she still continues her position. Between 2014 and 2015, she served as a Volunteer Instructor in the "Smiling Eyes Project" at the oncology department of Bolu Abant Ä°zzet Baysal University Hospital, working with children with leukemia. Between 2023 and 2024, she participated in a scientific research project at Selçuk University titled "The Effect of a Recreational Activity Program on the Self-Regulation Skills of Preschool Children."
Teacher
IBRAHIM RESULOGLU
Ibrahim RESULOGLU, the founding member of our association, works in a public institution as a special education teacher. He has 12 years of professional experience and has worked with hundreds of children with Autism spectrum disorders. He participated in the SMART-ASD (2015-1-ES01-KA201-01596) mobility organized by the University of Valencia and the ITASD 2017 (Innovative Technologies for Autism Spectrum Disorders) International conference.
He was invited to the activities of the "eTwinning in Every School" Erasmus+ KA1 project prepared by KONYA PROVINCIAL MEM during the 2017 call for proposals. In this context, he was assigned to observe and evaluate successful examples of eTwinning projects in the Villarreal region of Spain.
2019-1-TR01-KA101-065713 He became the author and coordinator of the project "Make a Difference in S.EN. WITH MONTESSORI", and within the scope of this project, he took a Montessori method application course for children with special needs in Vienna.
He became the German mobility coordinator of the Erasmus+KA101 School Education Personnel Mobility Project with contract number 2019-1-TR01-KA101-071687, named Evidence-Based Practices in Autism Education (OTEKTU), which was accepted by the Turkish National Agency in the 2019 application period under the consortium leadership of Konya Provincial Directorate of National Education. . Within the scope of this project, he participated in a 1-week trainer training at the Knospe ABA course center in Cologne, Germany.
Our founding member teacher also won the Tukey and European Quality Label with the Simple Experiments for S.I.M.P.L.E project on the eTwinning platform and was nominated for the eTwinning European Award Awards. As of 2018, our teacher has carried out international projects such as "LETS'S LEARN THINKING TOGETHER, What about playing a G.A.M.E with me?". Among these projects, the project named "What about playing a G.A.M.E with me?" won the 2nd prize in Turkey in the Inclusion category.
All these experiences of our founding member in the field of the project will help us in achieving the goals and objectives of our project.
Gaye ERKMEN HADÄ°
Associate Prof.
Dr. Gaye ERKMEN HADÄ°
She completed her undergraduate education at Selçuk University School of Physical Education and Sports. She completed her master's degree at Selçuk University Department of Physical Education and Sports. She worked as a Physical Education Teacher at Ä°mrenler Multi-Program High School between 2005-2006. She completed her doctorate at Middle East Technical University Department of Physical Education and Sports in 2015. She has been working as an assistant professor at Selçuk University Faculty of Sports Sciences Department of Recreation since 2017. She served on the Physically Disabled Sports Federation Para Badminton Technical and Education Boards between 2013-2021.
Projects
Scientific Research Projects (Middle East Technical University), Comparison of the young athletes with regard to static and dynamic balance (05-04-2010, Researcher)
The Projects of Quality of Life Through Healthy Nutrition, Turkish Petroleum Corporation, Ankara(May-June of 2011, Sport Specialist)
Scientific Research Projects (Selçuk University), The Effects of Recreation Activity Program on Self-Regulation Skills of Preschool Children (2023-2024, Project Manager)
