Social Entrepreneurship Summit Duzce Stage was realized

Young people from 18 countries working on social entrepreneurship, Social Entrepreneurship Summit Turkey Coordinator Ismail Hilmi Adiguzel, Duzce University Rector Prof. Dr. Nigar Demircan Cakar, Duzce Deputy Mayor Celal Kasapoglu, Duzce TSO Chairman Tuncay Sahin, Members of the Board of Directors and Assembly, Duzce Commodity Exchange Chairman Nurettin Karslioglu, Duzce Provincial Young Entrepreneurs Board Chairman Ahmet Serdar Erdem and GGK Members, Provincial KGK Members and many 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 brief information about the work they did during their 4.5-month term of office. In his speech, Erdem 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 desired to get to know each other as Young Entrepreneurs who love Duzce, to get to know Duzce, to improve our relations and to become a team that sits on more solid foundations.

During this process; We tried to meet frequently, we made factory visits, we received information about foreign trade from our expert lecturers, we tried to participate in all the programs organized by our Chamber of Commerce and Industry. As 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 carry our limits and level higher.”

After Ahmet Serdar Erdem, Social Entrepreneurship Summit Turkey Coordinator Ismail Hilmi Adiguzel took the floor and 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 have observed that social entrepreneurship has a higher financial and moral return.

Taking the floor after Celal Kasapoglu, Tuncay Sahin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Duzce TSO, 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 on the public side. 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, Graduate Student of Duzce University 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.