The paper presents the background of a newly funded IEF Marie Curie project that investigates the interactions between NGOs activists and policy makers both at the European level and in Turkey, in order to gather new theoretical knowledge regarding the development of the processes of bottom up and top down Europeanization, the development of practices of civic engagement and active citizenship and the social representation of Europe by the various policy actors involved in the research. More specifically, this paper discusses the theoretical and methodological framework that we are going to employ in order to analyse the process of europeanisation of the Organised Civil Society in Turkey -with a particular focus on the organisations working in the Youth sector- by looking at insights and findings of previous research that focused on the establishment of public engagement and active citizenship in Europe.
