The model which Association for the Protection and Survival of Habitats (YAŞAD) proposed and succeeded in was designed within the scope of Social Progress Program by South Marmara Development Agency (GMKA). Applied in this project, “The model of the rehabilitation of the mentally disabled children and teenagers in the nature” has been put into practice as an innovative and applicable model to support the space of the disabledpositively and increase the service efficiency. During the studies aimed to reintegrate disabledchildren into the society, it has been seen that quicker results can be obtained in the rehabilitation works based on communing with nature, attachment to creatures and animals in the nature and to nature itself. With our project team, we started out to make a rehabilitation program that emphasize the concepts of “Together”, “Us”, “Embrace the Nature”, “In natural environment”, “Sharing” and in the end, we succeeded in. We reapplied our model with the professional members appointed by our European partners in Italy, Romania, Portugal, Spain, and Poland. We made them to enter the habitats of living creatures naturally. We made them share each other’s daily life. We provided them with a happy day by taking advantage of drama education in nature and natural environments. Thanks to the natural communication of love, we have seen that our innovative model highly succeeded in and we were very glad for that.We can say that we have exceedingly reached our following goals for the development, learning, and extensification of our project.The general purpose of our project is “Providing the learning and extensification of “the model of the rehabilitation of mentally disabled children and teenagers in the nature” in European countries and Turkey. This general purpose has been adopted by our partners and their members of profession have struggled for the project and its extensification through learning. With this reason, we have spent a successful two-year project process with our partners and other stakeholders.Special purposes;1-The purpose of increasing the quality of the rehabilitation works in the area of mentally handicapped children and teenagers by ensuring the learning and the supporting of the innovative applications by the members of profession, and experience sharing among them.In this context, our model has been tried and applied in each partner country. Its results has been shared in our seminars. With the experiences of our partners and their knowledge, our model has been grown up and shared more than ever. Europe’s support for our model has honored YAŞAD and our project team.2-Ensuring that our innovative experiences in the area of rehabilitation are developed by being transfered and extended at an institutional, national and European level.According to the evaluations of our project management team, the studies on the high level experience sharing, the application and the evaluation of the model, and the extensification at each stage have been completed successfully. With the idea that we set forth in the project, we have reached the studies; Q1- The Definition of Rehabilitation Model, Q2- The Regulation of Education Courses, Q3- The Applied Training of the Model, Q4- Obtainment of Feedback on the Model Applied by All Our Partners, Q5- Needs Analysis and Guidance Reports, Q6- Founding the Platform of Rehabilitation Trainers and Electing the Founding Board, Q7- Extending the Project Results. The purposes and the results of our project have been welcomed with a big interest in Turkey and Europe. Through our model, different cultures and different professions on the matter of the handicapped have focused on a common work. Although the project is over, the members of “the Platform of Rehabilitation in Nature Trainers”, founded during the project process, continues to extend the aims and results of our project.These activities continues with our web site and platform organization. Our project purposes have been reached with the interest and great support of our partners and stakeholders. With the same excitement and powerful stakeholder support, it has been set out on new projects for our handicapped children and teenagers’ happiness and their rehabilitation. In this process, our model will stay available for new projects.

The dominant environmental problem caused by dairy processing is the discharge of large quantities of liquid effluent. In rural areas dairy processing efflunet may also irrigated to land. If not managed correctly, dissolved salts contained in the effluent can also leach into underlying groundwater and effect it's quality. Cheese factories generate waste waters of which cheese whey (CW) is the most important waste stream produced with a high organic content (up to 70 g COD/L) which is highly biodegradable, and low alkalinity (50 meq/L). Since cheese whey is a protein- and lactose-rich by-product of cheese production, its cost-effective utilization or disposal has became increasingly important. If discarded untreated into the waterways, cheese whey can cause serious environmental problems due to its high biological oxygen demand and chemical oxygen demand. Whey is the liquid remaining after the production of cheese or the removal fat and casein (80% of the proteins) from milk. Farm milk production increased by 18% between 2001 and 2013, to a total of 156 million tonnes in the EU last year. Dairies collected 142,1 million tonnes, 98% of which was cows’ milk. In volume, whey is the most important product. It was mainly used for producing cheese (67 million tonnes of raw milk used), butter and other yellow products (42 million tonnes) and drinking milk (31 million tonnes). A total of 40×106 tons/year of whey is produced in the EU; the annual surplus of whey is 13×106 tons, containing about 619,250 tons of lactose. According to the data of 2013 the milk production of 13, 5 million tons per year (TUIK, 2013) and that approximately 20% of processed cheese, given that 2,7 million tons of milk cheese used for the production is understood. i.e., a large portion of whey are released into the environment.In this regard, our country, including small businesses various forms of whey is of great importance in the economic evaluation. Nowadays this surplus is not utilized for further production of lactose; consequently, whey disposal represents a serious problem from both an economical and an environmental point of view. In this context, whey is a strong pollutant when discharged into streams, its high organic matter content leading to a biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5) ranging from 30 to 40 g of oxygen per litre. As a result, the pollution load from a cheese factory processing 100000 lt of milk per day would be equivalent to the pollution of a city of 60 000 inhabitants.. Given the large quantity of whey produced worldwide each year, the risks of pollution are therefore extremely high. On the contrary, whey is a valuable source of nutrients if processed, recovery of whey components and/or use of whey as fermentation medium may be advantageous not only for the environment but also for a sustainable economy but compared with established west European markets, demand for whey products in the east European and accession countries remains under developed.The main objectives of whey project was to: a) Create awareness about the possibilities offered by the reuse of whey in Turkey and East EU. b) Develop a vocational training pathway consisting in adapting, testing, disseminating an education/training/decision process integrated system of transferable teaching materials for new skills/jobs on dairy-food and feed sector for target groups such as agricultural, food and environmental engineers, veterinarians, medical technicians, businessmen and entrepreneurs in related sectors. The challenge was therefore to invest in education and training for human resources aiming at increasing the entrepreneurship, competitive and innovative culture of the new generations and in the stakeholders in related sectors. The WHY WHEY project that was to be transferred - from NATURALITERproject which was a successful LdV- TOI project that developed different levels of education and training tools: • 1st level for a basic self-evaluation on DAIRY SECTOR • 2nd level for a training from a library of CASE STUDIES • 3rd level for whey manufacturers was skills on dairy sectors PLANNING and MANAGING. The WHEY project was aimedat updating, adapting, transferring those teaching materials with specific focus on new established stakeholders, entrepreneurs, also bridging experiences and best practices between the EU and TR with its specificity. The WHY WHEY project aimed at promoting excellence of high value-added products and application areas in dairy sector’s VET in connection with European/International research, education and training networks. The through WHY WHEY project, the production and utilizations of whey were examined in detail in partner countries and EU. Especially the millions of people were of people were reached through TV programs. Also disseminations were made with number of meetings and workshops for the professional groups. Project team has been realised many project products such as books, e-learning web portal

"Today European figures say there are 600.000 beekeepers and 14.million beehives in this continent, therefore this is a great industry.Honey is important for beekeepers but beekeeping is not limited by honey production. Today, bee products including propolis, royal jelly, and bee pollen are popular, traditional health foods. On the basis of the scientific assays, propolis is the most powerful antioxidant of all the examined bee products, including pollen which showcased strong antioxidant effects. Today, the use of bee products in the health sector is called APITHERAPY.Apitherapy is a growing sector and a fascinating one as well. The project's overall goal was to develop a new curriculum for an awareness of the beneficial aspects of bee products to beekeepers, agricultural, medical sectors and to aim at finding alternative solutions to know and combat health problems in Europe. Therefore the marketing of these products is not easy. Traditionally, honey is considered the major beekeeping product. Wax has played a considerable role in only a few parts of the world and propolis is even less known. However, with increasing knowledge about beekeeping and an awareness of the beneficial aspects of many bee products, the use and demand for other products is increasing. Many agricultural and medical researches have shown that a lot of bee products can be used in alternative medicine recently. The five popular honeybee products work in different ways to treat various ailments and conditions. But the majority of beekeepers and health care providers need a scientific training and information about bee products for health at both national and European level. Today, the beekeeping industry produces honey, wax, and other bee products, the fruits of beekeeping that have a number of medicinal applications. Their use in medicine, called ""apitherapy"" has been practiced for centuries in many parts of the world. This practice is receiving renewed and increasing attention from scientists. The development of a new curriculum will suffice to enable people's knowledge and curiosity about bee products such as royal jelly, propolis and bee venom. On the other hand, there was an increase in the EU of the support for the beekeeping, that approved the national programs of 27 member states to improve the production and marketing of beekeeping products for the period 2011-2013.The main objective of the project was to create completely updated teaching materials on bee products in alternative medicine. The main targets were Vocational Education institutions (public,private) adult education centers' teachers on beekeeping, alternative medicine and food sector, related vocational high school teachers (Agriculture, Veterinary, Pharmacy) and vocational high schools in beekeeping and environmental foundations and training centers. The project overall goal was to develop a new curriculum for an awareness of the beneficial aspects of bee products to beekeepers, agricultural, medical sectors and aiming at finding alternative solutions to known health problems with human in Europe. Apitherapy project defined the needs of rural and remote regions in participating countries and beyond, adapted the curriculum and materials to specific regional and national needs, added modules and chapters on further issues such as scientific methods of use of bee products in alternative medicine.Today this deficiency is a serious phenomenon and conscious people avoid the use of drugs. At the same time many beekeepers have a lack of information on the use of these products in health science in Europe. It means related professional groups (Beekeepers, including staff from medical sectors), vocational education institutions (public, private), adult education centers' teachers on beekeeping, alternative medicine and food sector, related vocational high school instructors (Agriculture, Veterinary, pharmacy, vocational high schools in beekeeping and environmental foundations and training centers need for training to bee products and use of alternative medicine). In this context, this project solved a major deficiency."