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Social entrepreneurship with young people in Batman: Social Business Global at Young Business Academy

At the Young Business Academy held by Genç MÜSİAD Batman at Batman University on 18 November 2025, Social Business Global Country Leader İsmail Hilmi Adıgüzel took part as a speaker on social entrepreneurship.

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The Young Business Academy organised by Genç MÜSİAD Batman took place on Tuesday 18 November 2025 at the Rectorate Conference Hall of Batman University's main campus, offering young people trainings from entrepreneurship and branding to technology, social impact and innovation. The programme was also open to online participation.

Social Business Global Country Leader İsmail Hilmi Adıgüzel took part as a speaker to share examples of social entrepreneurship. Dr. A. Tevfik Dönmez (Chairman of Dönmezler Baharat), Enes Aydın (founder of Cenglab), M. Rıdvan Ayyıldız (founder of MedyaXpress) and Serdar Harman (Ministry of National Education Girişim 360 Coordinator) also spoke.

Since 2020, Social Business Global has introduced young people to social entrepreneurship through events at universities, high schools, governorships and municipalities.

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About Social Business Global

Social Business Global (official name: International Social Benefit Association) is a civil society organisation that promotes social entrepreneurship and social innovation from Turkiye to the world. Social Business Global works together with hangel; its events, volunteering and public-sector cooperation run on the hangel platform.

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Some of Social Business Global's work

  • International Social Entrepreneurship Workshops since 2019, each with participants from about 20 countries (the first in Istanbul, July 2019).
  • A 29-article draft Social Entrepreneurship Law.
  • 258 awareness conferences across Turkiye.
  • The Social Enterprise Dataset, built from a detailed review of 634 social enterprises.
  • Turkiye's first master's programme in social entrepreneurship, in cooperation with Mersin University; an "Applied Social Entrepreneurship" course open to all departments at Maltepe University.
  • A youth and volunteering network cooperating with 42 universities.
  • Co-implementation of the Ministry of Interior of Turkiye project conferences on revenue models and sustainability for NGOs.

Figures from the association's pages and its 2020–2025 Impact and Transparency Report.

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