International Social Entrepreneurship Summit in Duzce for the first time
Duzce stage of the Social Entrepreneurship Summit, an international project, was completed with intense participation.
Young people from 18 countries working on social entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship Summit Turkey Coordinator Ismail Hilmi Adiguzel and guests attended the event held at Duzce Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Ahmet Serdar Erdem, President of Duzce Provincial Young Entrepreneurs Board, who made the opening speech of the summit, gave information about the work they did during his 4.5-month term of office and said, “Promoting our Duzce on every possible platform, developing local and national policies for the benefit of our Duzce will be among our biggest goals during our term of office. Since the day we took office, we have wanted to get to know each other as Young Entrepreneurs who love Duzce, to get to know Duzce, to improve our relations and to be a team sitting on more solid foundations. As the TOBB Duzce Young Entrepreneurs Board, I would like to promise that we will sign projects that will contribute to the future of Duzce and contribute to the future of Duzce and move our borders and level higher.”
Ismail Hilmi Adiguzel, Coordinator of the Social Entrepreneurship Summit Turkey, answered questions such as what is a social entrepreneur, what are the advantages and disadvantages of social entrepreneurship, and included successful examples from many countries in his presentation.
Speaking at the summit, Celal Kasapoglu, Deputy Mayor of Duzce Municipality, stated that he was very impressed by Ismail Hilmi Adiguzel’s presentation and underlined that similar examples can be made in Duzce and that they observed that social entrepreneurship has a higher financial and moral return.
“We attach importance to university-industry cooperation”
Tuncay Sahin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of DTSO, said that they have been trying to accelerate the work of the chamber since 1.5 years, that they attach importance to University-Industry cooperation studies and that they have taken many important steps as a result of these studies. Sahin said, “We have 31 council members from 11 professional groups. As a chamber, we have developed projects for our 10 professional groups. Again, as a chamber, we established the Science and Technology Commission for the first time in Turkey. At this stage, our Rector gave us the incubation center in Technopark. Our commission continues its work in this area. As a chamber, we established strong Young and Women Entrepreneurs Boards. Our friends are dynamic and very hardworking. We try to support all the work of our friends and try to be involved in their work. We are very happy to be here today and to make a program to a full hall. We have achieved University-Industry cooperation, but unfortunately we cannot achieve Public-Industry cooperation. Our demands remain unanswered by the public. Unfortunately, our demands such as the declaration of the Defense Industry Pilot Zone and the Gendarmerie School were not met by the public. We are struggling for the development and progress of Duzce. You young people also have great duties at this point. We will be with you in every project you will develop. You can come to our room with peace of mind and share your projects with us.”
Taking the floor before the presentations, Duzce University Rector Prof. Dr. Nigar Demircan Cakar reminded that her doctoral thesis was on entrepreneurship and expressed how close she was to the subject. Cakar added that social entrepreneurship is a new phenomenon that has emerged thanks to changing economic trends, and thanks to this phenomenon, commercial enterprises are more involved in social work.
Engin Cavus, Duzce University Graduate Student and Trainer, informed the participants about Social Entrepreneurship and positive examples that can be applied in Turkey.
In the last part of the meeting, Social Entrepreneurs from 18 different countries shared the successful practices and results of their countries with the participants.
The Social Entrepreneurship Summit Duzce Stage ended with the presentation of a plaque to Ismail Hilmi Adiguzel, Coordinator of the International Social Entrepreneurship Summit, by Tuncay Sahin, Chairman of Duzce TSO, Prof. Dr. Nigar Demircan Cakar, Rector of DU, Celal Kasapoglu, Deputy Mayor of Duzce, Nurettin Karslioglu, President of Duzce Commodity Exchange, and Ahmet Serdar Erdem, President of Duzce GGK, and a souvenir photo shoot.
