The summit’s opening speech was gaven by Dr Mustafa Kurt,Associate Professor ,the president of YUGIM.Mustafa Kurt’s speech started by thanking the institutions and organizations who had contributed to the organization of summit.Emphasizing that the main purpose of the summit is to raise a motivation and awareness about entrepreneurship and added ‘YUGIM endeavors to raise an awareness regarding entrepreneurship by bringing the candidates,students and region’s leading entrepreneur figures together.’Tahsin Becan ,Chairman of Yalova Chamber of Commerce and Industry stated also that ‘Turkey should execessively get ahead in the field of entrepreneurship ’.Expressing that due to its adjacency to the big cities and strategic location advantage Yalova is an attraction center for entrepreneurs added they were always going to support the young entrepreneurs.

Professor Dr Niyazi Eruslu,Rector of Yalova University exemplified the issue through worldwide entrepreneurship patterns.Referring to the fact ‘those who are successful in business life and in technology are not very hardworking and intelligent people ,merely entrepreneurial individuals ‘ he emhasized that Yalova University had already established the Center for Entrepreneurship and Business Administration in order to educate the young people who will be able to catch the opportunites and plan their own futures.Touching that in his speech Yalova is a needy city in this respect, Vefa Salman,Mayor of Yalova emphasized the importance of such a summit held in Yalova and thanked to the individuals and organizations who had contributed to the summit.Speaking to the participants about the sociocultural and geographical features of Yalova, President Salman signified the advantages of Yalova for entrepreneurs. Following the protocol, the first session of the summit was ended.Hüseyin Özer was the honorary guest of the first session entitled Entrepreneurship Story.

Hüseyin Özer, the founder of London-based SOFRA restaurants,one of the most important Turkish entrepreneurs abroad, told stories of entrepreneurship by presenting extraordinary episodes from his own life story.

Voicing the essence of his success as honesty and hard-work Huseyin Ozer said,’If you do it by giving your love to work “If you do it by giving your love to work and taking customer satisfaction to the forefront and serve honestly without fooling people, success will come after you.”Following Huseyin Özer’s speech ‘Youth Idea Idea Competition Awards’ and ‘Stars of Yalova Awards’ ceremonies were held.The “Youth Idea Idea” business competition was held jointly by YUGIM and the Yalova Women Entrepreneurs Committee while offering a chance to realize business dreams of all university students studying in Yalova,stressed a support that the students who had submitted their projects were going to be awarded in the sponsorship of the Women Entrepreneurs Committtee and Yalova Chamber of Commerce and Trade.. It was also reported that the project that had ranked at the 1st was going to be supported in order to be materialized.

Winners of the Competition
Serhat Oran – Project Name :Petmatik (1st of the competition)
Büşra Yavuz – Project Name:Frozen Yogurt(2nd of the competition)
Nurdan Durmaz,Selda Baykus,Gökhan Cengiz’s joint project :Project Name:Funny Ice (3rd of the competition).
The Summit therewithal awarded the leading figures of the Yalova business circle.

INNOVATION LEADER OF THE YEAR
Proses – T.I.M. was the winner of the competition in the field of innovation and awarded by Yalova Chamber of Commerce&Industry and Women Entrepreneurs’ Committee .
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