Volkan Atak

Eurasia Social Change

Eurasia Social Change is a pool of expertise and knowledge for addressing the challenges of social, institutional and innovative capacity development in those areas where Asia and the Middle East meets Europe. It has been established to provide professional assistance to those groups in the region engaged in the delivery of social services and the promotion of local development. Our consultants have proved to be relevant and innovative in meeting the needs of partners in Turkey and its neighbours. Countries aspiring to accession to the European Union and those building new relations with it, and around it, are looking for new models and frameworks for development that are complimentary to those in Europe, but also in step with their own cultural and social legacies. Approaches to transition employed in the countries of Eastern Europe in the 1990s are increasingly seen to be unsuitable for the emerging economies in the Caucasus and Middle East, and mostly irrelevant to development in Turkey. Thus, there is a growing need to mobilise expertise that can contribute a more appropriate and sustainable input to development interventions in the region. The Eurasia Social Change Collective is the mechanism for that mobilisation.