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.

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