Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank stated that the Future Üsküdar Entrepreneurship Academy will be one of the most popular places in the entrepreneurship ecosystem in the coming period, and said, “Education, consultancy, mentoring, common infrastructures, offices, collaborations, synergy are all available here.” said.
Minister Varank inaugurated the Future Üsküdar Entrepreneurship Academy, which was implemented in cooperation with the Istanbul Development Agency and Üsküdar Municipality. Noting that Üsküdar has made a name for itself with science and technology thanks to this visionary science center, Varank said:
FROM 7 TO 77: Hosting our opening, Bilim Üsküdar appeals to all our citizens from 7 to 77 with its services, especially its planetarium, hands-on workshops and exhibition areas. While our people meet with science here, our children explore technology fields such as robotics, automotive and space.
ENTERPRISE ECOSYSTEM
The Future Üsküdar Entrepreneurship Academy, located in the Science Üsküdar campus, will be one of the most popular places in our entrepreneurial ecosystem in the coming period. Because this place has been designed in a way that takes into account all the needs of our entrepreneurs and produces solutions.
TRAINING AND CONSULTANCY
Training, consultancy, mentoring, common infrastructures, offices, collaborations, synergy are all available here. I sincerely believe that our academy, which will train the successful entrepreneurs of the future, will make very important contributions to our country.
TOP 20
We are determined to be among the top 20 most developed ecosystems in the world. By 2025, we will definitely reach 5 thousand angel investors, 2,5 billion lira crowdfunding, 5 billion lira public support, 2,5 billion dollar venture capital investment, 15 turcorn and 5 decacorn.
TEKNOFEST
There are only a few days left until TEKNOFEST, the world's largest Aviation, Space and Technology Festival, which is expected with great enthusiasm this year. In its sixth year, we will be holding Teknofest on different dates, both in Istanbul and Ankara, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of our Republic.
1 MILLION YOUTH
The number of participants of TEKNOFEST, which we have been organizing with enthusiasm since 2018, has increased exponentially every year. This year, we received applications from over 81 thousand teams and 66 million competitors from 332 provinces and 1 countries. Nearly 1 million of our young people will compete in 41 different categories, from rocket to chip design, from hyperloop to unmanned aerial vehicles.
FUTURE TECHNOLOGIES
Thanks to the competitions we organize, our young people will already start working on the technologies of the future. This year, we are holding the final of the first TEKNOFEST at Istanbul Atatürk Airport between April 27 and May 1.
COUNTDOWN
On the other hand, the TEKNOFEST competition marathon will start with the Robotaksi-Passenger Autonomous Vehicle Competition on Monday, April 10, in Kocaeli Bilişim Valley. Afterwards, the enthusiasm for the competition will continue in different cities, including Bursa, Ankara, Aksaray and Istanbul. Now the countdown has begun. We invite all our citizens and all our youth to TEKNOFEST and TEKNOFEST competitions, which are the driving force of the National Technology Move.
YETENEK ISTANBUL
I would like to share an important good news from this podium with you. We have completed our evaluations in the Talent Istanbul Program, which we have put into practice to train our young people in Istanbul as software developers with an employment-guaranteed project.
In this context, we are establishing 20 innovative and application-based centers in Istanbul.
SOFTWARE EDUCATION
In these centers, we will both provide software training and enable our young people to work as software developers. We allocated 125 million TL for this program. Congratulations to our Istanbul, the 10 Talent Istanbul Software Training and Employment Center, which will be established by 10 universities and 20 municipalities.
Governor of Istanbul Ali Yerlikaya, Mayor of Üsküdar Municipality Hilmi Türkmen and Secretary General of Istanbul Development Agency İsmail Erkam Tüzgen made speeches at the ceremony.