Active Cities Association

International Active Cities Association, known as Active Cities, is a non-profit youth and sport association based in Istanbul, Türkiye, established in 2020 and registered with OID E10260618. We promote sport for all and lifelong participation in physical activity regardless of language, religion, geography, age, gender or race, and we work to raise quality of life by integrating sports culture with urban life. We hold the Erasmus+ Accreditation in the field of Youth for KA1 mobility of individuals, and we hold the European Solidarity Corps Quality Label covering sending activity. We cooperate on a standing basis with metropolitan and district municipalities, professional sport clubs and universities, and we run our own volunteer body, CityEagles, which supplies the young people and youth workers behind our activities.

Since 2020 we have applied to more than ten European projects and delivered them as coordinator or partner across Erasmus+ KA1 youth exchanges and mobility of youth workers, KA1 youth participation activities, KA2 cooperation partnerships, Erasmus+ Sport, HORIZON, CERV and the European Solidarity Corps. Our activity fields are active cities and public space policy, sport as a tool for social inclusion, gender equality in sport, digital and information literacy, support for young people outside education and employment, and child safeguarding in sport. In practice this means international youth exchanges, training courses for youth workers, volunteering placements, local field studies with municipalities and the production of handbooks, policy documents and action plans that city administrations and clubs can keep using after the project ends.