THE OPPORTUNITY OF SETTING UP A BUSINESS FOR METU STUDENTS AND GRADUATES!

New Ideas New Businesses 2013 have been started…

The 2013 registration period of Turkey’s greatest and leading entrepreneurship contest, organized by METU and ODTÜ Teknokent for 9 years, ‘New Ideas New Businesses’ has been started. ‘New Ideas New Businesses’, aiming to impose entrepreneurship and innovation on rising generation, is organized by adopting the METU’s approach of ‘Not an Employed Graduate but an Employer’.

The contest ‘New Ideas New Businesses’ provides a backdrop for students and graduates who have innovative and technology based business ideas and support them to implement their ideas and to become a successful businessman.

All students or graduates (not over 5 years under the condition of graduation) of Bachelors/MS/PHD degrees at any university and any department may attend the contest.

Contestants are competing for the financial awards below…

ELGINKAN FOUNDATION Grand Award
100.000 TL
UNDERSECRETARIAT for DEFENCE INDUSTRY Grand Award
100.000 TL
TURKCELL Grand Award
100.000 TL
OSTIM Special Award 25.000 TL
DENIZBANK Special Award 25.000 TL
ASELSAN Special Award
25.000 TL
CALIK YEDAS Special Award
25.000 TL

 

Besides the direct financial awards, there are many other supports for contestants…

  • Office
  • Coaches
  • Intellectual Property Right Protection
  • Business Planning and Entrepreneurship Trainings
  • Mentors
  • Legal and Technological Consultants
  • Investor Meetings


‘New Ideas New Businesses’ contest, along with all these services, offers 1.5 Million TL support in total.

Applications can be made via www.yfyi.info until April 19, 2013…

 


Last Updated:

10/10/2013 - 14:45