Civic Involvement Projects are hands-on learning program for understanding participatory democracy, where students take active roles in civil society, dealing with various problems and working in cooperation with national and international NGOs and state institutions. CIP is a program believing that individuals are responsible for the society and the world they are living in; CIP provides the necessary tools for people to realize themselves; CIP believes that security concept should not be state centralized but individual centralized; CIP strives for internalization of participatory and democratic values; CIP is aware of the fact that there is a basic link in between poverty-income distribution, food reliability, health, education, access to information, gender equality, human rights and environment. Therefore CIP believes that all these issues should be undertaken as a whole considering participatory democracy. CIP is also aware that only this realization could provide a person to exist as a dignified being. In this context, CIP substantiates projects within a wide range; about child development, human rights, environment, consumer responsibility, handicapped people.