Academy of International Techno Entrepreneurship Erasmus Project

Project Title

Academy of International Techno Entrepreneurship

Project Key Action

This project related with these key action: Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices

Project Action Type

This project related with this action type : Strategic Partnerships for youth

Project Call Year

This project’s Call Year is 2014

Project Topics

This project is related with these Project Topics: New innovative curricula/educational methods/development of training courses; Entrepreneurial learning – entrepreneurship education

Project Summary

Supporting of qualified entrepreneurship and enterprise” which is accepted today as the first option in the sustainable development of countries by all States is the leading one of important points between 2023 development aims of our country.Especially when we compare our country with developed world countries, the rate of entrepreneurship is around % 4,6 in our country while it is around % 11-12 in America and Europe.The rate of young entrepreneurs of Turkey is % 2,3. One of the main reasons for having a low rate of entrepreneurship in Turkey is that individuals are not encouraged about this matter during their education lives.Addition to all these scientific studies, important consequences came from a study of “PAU Faculty of Engineering Entrepreneurship Index – 2013” made under the leadership of IPEC Research.The audience of research is 183 young people who are 3rd and 4th class students of PAU Faculty of Engineering and are between 21-25 ages. Only % 8 of young people who attended to research is willing to be an entrepreneur after graduation. % 78 of these young people thinks that the education in university does not encourage them to be an entrepreneur.Only 5 of 54 firms with PAU Teknokent have been managing by students of PAU Faculty of Engineering.Young people’s interest in especially innovator entrepreneurship is low as countrywide. As a result of this, our country is 68th from 128 countries which are mentioned in Global Innovation Index.The most important entrepreneurship field is “Technological Entrepreneurship” in today evaluated as technological age. For our country products with high technology which make up very big part of our importation damage our economy and cause the current deficit. Encouraging of technological entrepreneurship as entrepreneurship field with highest added-value is a key importance for sustainable development aims of our country. Based upon all these, we made up “Academy of International Techno-Entrepreneurship – AITE” with the international partnership.Our project will be actualized with a strategical partnership formed from multinational and different corporate structures which will be occurred by the attendance of Pamukkale University, IYPF – International Young Professional Foundation (Foundation), UNIVERSITATEA DUNAREA DE JOS DIN GALATI (University), European Alternatives (Association), IPEC – International Research Org. Project and Education Center Ltd. (Private Corporation) and The Silesian University of Technology-SUT.
AITE program is a non-formal education-based, easy-to-implement, innovative Technological Entrepreneurship Training Module (Trainer Box) and Online Training Module that can be applied to young people between the ages of 18 and 25 with the support of academicians, professional youth workers and experts from Poland, Romania, Australia, and Turkey.
Within the scope of the project, 2 short-term learning activities were carried out in Poland and Denizli with 118 young people. The evaluation and feedback of the young people about the training module were taken and the produced training module was developed and revised accordingly. Participant young people should have knowledge about Techno-Entrepreneurship, Business Idea Generation, Innovative Approach Development, Marketing, Finance, Human Resources, Management, Projecting and technological entrepreneurship skills and competencies have been developed. At the end of the trainings, groups formed 13 business ideas. A nationwide dissemination summit was held in Denizli, bringing together 152 young trainer candidates from across Turkey, and entrepreneurship boxes were distributed to these young people and disseminated locally. Within the scope of the project, local dissemination trainings were carried out and 82 trainees were trained in Techno Entrepreneurship Trainer Box.

EU Grant (Eur)

Funding of the project from EU: 233150 Eur

Project Coordinator

Pamukkale Universitesi & Country: TR

Project Partners

• UNIVERSITATEA DUNAREA DE JOS DIN GALATI
• POLITECHNIKA SLASKA
• Uluslararasi Arastirma Organizasyon Proje ve Egitim Merkezi L.T.D.
• International Young Professionals Foundation