ERA + Project has been launched
ERA + project was launched officially with the kick-off meeting held on the 16 - 17 November 2015 in Piatra Neamt,Romania.The coordinating organisation ASCETIS hosted the meeting with the participation of seven partner organizations from seven countries. They made presentations about the situation of entrepreneurship &social entrepreneurship in their countries and exchanged information .
The meeting also revised the roadmap for the next two years to carry out the project , the deadlines for the partner tasks that are to be completed by the next project meeting were fixed,too.
KOGED was represented by our chairwoman ,Gülhan Bütün and project manager,Ayşe Öztürk at the meeting.The next project meeting will be held in Izmit in April , 2016.
KOGED’s ERA+ Project Trainees at the Young Entrepreneurs’ Center of Izmit Municipality
KOGED learners for ERA+ project learners paid a visit to the Young Entrepreneurs’ Center of Izmit Municipality on the 21st January,2016.After giving the group information about the ongoing work of the Center,the Manager,Mr.Enis Göçer,introduced the young entrepreneurs currently working at the Center to the trainees and gave information about how the entrepreneurs’ creative ideas developed into enterprise.
The Center is the first and only one as part of a municipality in Turkey.It provides counselling services to young entrepreneurs and enables them to use offices for a year without any payment.
Mr. Göçer emphasized the basic three features of any entrepreneurial work as :’’aim, team and patience’’ and encouraged the KOGED learners to be an entrepreneur.Further discussion points were what our learners know about ‘’entrepreneurship’’ and their creative ideas.