@article{article_982763, title={Stimulating Learning Organisation Through Erasmus+: Youth Organisations in Turkey}, journal={Gençlik Araştırmaları Dergisi}, volume={10}, pages={15–38}, year={2022}, DOI={10.52528/genclikarastirmalari.982763}, author={Göksel, Asuman}, keywords={Gençlik Kuruluşları, Erasmus+ Programı, Öğrenen Örgüt, Gençlik Çalışmaları.}, abstract={<p>Turkey’s full participation in the European Union’s Education and Youth Programmes (i.e., Erasmus+ <br />Programme) since 2004 has been one of the ongoing components of Turkey–EU relations. As indicated by <br />the Director of the National Agency of Turkey in 2021, the programme has supported 700,000 participants <br />from Turkey in 36,000 projects over the course of 17 years. Youth organisations taking part in the learning <br />mobility opportunities of the youth component of the Erasmus+ programme are just one of the programme’s <br />many beneficiaries. <br />In an effort to perform a theoretical analysis of the effects of Erasmus+ on youth organisations in Turkey, <br />this article suggests that owing to their contextual characteristics, youth organisations have the potential to <br />transform into learning organisation stimulated by their involvement in Erasmus+ youth projects. To answer <br />how Erasmus+ may act as a trigger for this, qualitative data were collected from fifteen youth organisations <br />from Turkey active in the programme and analysed around four components of the integrated model on <br />learning organisation developed by Örtenblad (2004) (i.e., organisational learning, learning at work, learning <br />climate and learning structure). The findings suggest that three major factors, namely organisational <br />consciousness on learning, participatory mechanisms in the organisation and team-based working structures, <br />are mutually reinforcing characteristics able to help youth organisations transform into learning organisation <br />through participation in Erasmus+/YiA training and support activities. <br /> </p>}, number={27}, publisher={Gençlik ve Spor Bakanlığı}, organization={Centre for EU Education and Youth Programmesof the Directorate for EU Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs}