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Çağdaş has four years of experience in the private and nonprofit sector. He has obtained his PhD in Science in International Relations from the Ege University in Turkey. While working as a Research Executive under Etik Research Company, he executed qualitative and quantitative marketing and social research in Turkey. He was responsible for data analysis, field management and reporting activities. Çağdaş also volunteered in a nonprofit organization in Romania for a long term European Union project. He worked with teenagers in a rural community. This project was about anti-discrimination and introduction of European values. He operated with a group of 9 people from different parts of Europe. Apart from these, he worked at Yaşar University European Union Center in Turkey. He prepared European Projects (KA1, KA2 and KA3) for National Agency and finished Migration-Security Nexus in The EU Jean Monnet Summer School. In addition, he has another international experience in Lebanon, where he worked as an intern at a Belgian nonprofit organization. There he handled communication, marketing strategies and project development about Syrian refugees. When he was a student, he participated in International Students Week in Ilmenau (ISWI 2009) – Ilmenau Technical University in Germany and Erasmus Intensive Program Summer School on Good Governance Stanislaw Staszic College of Public Administration in Bialystok, in Poland. Afterwards, he joined the Turkish-Armenian dialogue project funded by the American embassy. He prepared a workshop and assisted a short film about Turkey-Armenia relations. He has been a Ph.D. degree based on International relations and his thesis has been selected International Relations Department Best Doctoral Dissertation Award in Turkey. Through these experiences, he developed strong project coordination and implementation skills. He learned to adapt to multicultural working conditions, focus on details and use interactive learning methods. Çağdaş enjoys focusing on the topics of human rights, democracy, civil society, sustainability life and environment. He has a volunteer WWOOF.