PROPOSED FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

Yesilist.com is Turkey’s first green guide and sustainable life portal. Launched as an online portal, it has expanded in time through trainings, seminars and establishment of a network of volunteers. Yeşilist aspires to offer options and tips to urban people who are interested in ‘green’ topics, who want to make environmentally friendly choices yet who do not have clue about how to do it. We do so by bringing to the fore the stories about organisations and companies that work in this direction.

 

Within the framework of the Fellowship Scheme, we would like to host a fellow from Armenia, who can carry out a research on the environmental awareness of consumers, recycling habits or access to ecological food and food quality in the major cities of Turkey as well as their consumption patterns. By the end of research, we expect reporting. The research findings will be published on Yeşilist.com.

EXPECTED PROFILE 

  • Those who have completed or continuing their graduate/post-graduate studies on social sciences or environmental engineering
  • Interested in research
  • Knowledgeable about reporting
  • Preferably, with previous experience of one academic thesis
  • Able to take responsibility and to manage the project by himself/herself
  • Team member
  • Not hesitant to socialize in new environment
  • Good command of English and Turkish
  • Microsoft literacy

CONDITIONS OF THE FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITY

  • Fellow is expected to dedicate time for the fellowship from Monday to Friday, from 10:00 to 18:00.
  • All public holidays of Turkey will be off days. The fellow can also take days off in case of religious holidays or Christmas day of Armenia.
  • Fellow will be based at the Yeşilist.com office in Beşiktaş, Serencebey. The fellow will also go to the field to carry out the field study.

PROPOSED TIME FOR THE FELLOWSHIP (JANUARY – JUNE 2017)

6 months to be identified between january and June 2017