KOSGEB (Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization) Applied Entrepreneurship Training Ceremony
18.07.2013

Students who took MGMT 409 Entrepreneurship Course in 2012-2013 spring semester at Atılım University received their Applied Entrepreneurship Training Certificates from KOSGEB in a ceremony held on 16th July, 2013. With this certificate, the students have been granted to receive a financial support amounting to 100.000 TL which is composed of a grant amounting to 30.000 TL and a loan amounting to 70.000 TL if they run their own businesses and apply to KOSGEB.

The President of Atılım University, Prof. Dr. Abdürrahim Özgenoğlu, the Chair of the Board of Trustees, Mr. Yalçın Zaim, Provost of Atılım University, Prof. Dr. Hasan Akay, Director of KOSGEB Sincan Center, Mr. M. Tarık Ferizoğlu, KOSGEB Entrepreneurship Expert Mr. Serdar Erdoğan and Brand Strategist from Markör Brandization Agency Özel Oytun Türkoğlu shared the enthusiasm of the students in the ceremony.

Each project team presented their projects together with the Lecturer of the course Lecturer Elif Kalaycı (PhD). The themes of the projects are as follows:

1.     Vending machine for fruit

2.     Apparatus which enables the construction workers work longer hours under the sun.

3.     Technology development for garden irrigation which uses wind power instead of electricity.

4.     Soup vending machine for people accompanying patients in the hospitals, which enables them to find soup late hours in the night.   

MGMT 409 Entrepreneurship Course is available as a free elective course each semester for students from the Faculties of Engineering, Management, etc. and the course aims to offer an environment in which students having different background can work in groups and experience the real working life. New project ideas are created in this course and a working plan is filled in for each project according to the format of KOSGEB, at the end of the semester the projects are presented to a jury consisting of representatives of private sector, entrepreneurs and KOSGEB experts.