The 15th of the Global Entrepreneurship Week will be celebrated this year with the slogan “open wings to the future”. Within the scope of GGH 2022, which will take place between 14-20 November, hundreds of events will be organized all over Turkey and tens of thousands of people will follow the events.
Entrepreneurship ecosystem GGH will spread wings to the future in 2022!
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GGH), which has been celebrated in Turkey simultaneously with 180 countries every November since 2008, will be celebrated between 14-20 November this year with the slogan “open wings to the future”.
With the support of 29 institutions consisting of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and universities, tens of thousands of people participated in hundreds of entrepreneurship events that will take place throughout Turkey within the scope of GGH 2022, which will be organized under the general coordination of GEN Turkey and Habitat Association, which are carrying out their work as part of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN) this year. people are expected to attend.
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GGH; It is run in Washington DC, with the support of the Kauffman Foundation, under the umbrella of the Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN), focused on developing the entrepreneurial ecosystem around the world. Initially, the main aim of the GGH was to encourage young people to consider entrepreneurship as a career option; At this point, it is positioned as a platform that brings together more than 300 stakeholder institutions operating in the ecosystem, from NGOs to universities, from entrepreneurs to investors, from the private sector to media and government institutions.
During the week that will be celebrated for the 15th time this year, all GGH stakeholders are raising awareness in this area with hundreds of entrepreneurship events organized all over Turkey.
“Increasing numbers and investments are indicators of development”
Nevzat Aydın, Chairman of the Board of GEN Turkey, who made an evaluation about GGH 2022, said: “We are witnessing that the entrepreneurship ecosystem is growing day by day and an entrepreneurship culture is starting to settle in our country.
At the point reached today, as there are many successful startups in Turkey, the number of VCs, corporate VCs, angel investment and crowdfunding platforms is also increasing. Investments received from abroad stand out as the most important indicator of the further development of this culture.
As GEN Turkey, we also make a significant contribution to the development of the entrepreneurship ecosystem through various competitions and events we organize. While we expect intense participation in one of them, Global Entrepreneurship Week, this year we say to startups with your idea, team and innovation, ‘open wings to the future’.”
“Our goal is to be chosen ‘country of the year’”
Gülden Yılmaz, Vice Chairman of GEN Turkey Board of Directors and member of Koton Board of Directors, said, “Global Entrepreneurship Week, which started to be celebrated for the first time in Turkey in 2008 with events held in 6 provinces, is being celebrated with great interest in all provinces today.
We take great care to keep this structure in a democratic and pluralistic approach. This solidarity underlies the success of the Global Entrepreneurship Week in our country. With the Global Entrepreneurship Week campaign, Turkey was chosen as the ‘country of the year’ among all the countries celebrating this week in 2011.
We aim to be selected as the ‘country of the year’ among all countries with the works we will carry out with the slogan of ‘open wings to the future’ this year.
“Our dream is to host the Davos of Entrepreneurship once again”
GEN Turkey Vice Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Board of Habitat Association Sezai ready said: “Global Entrepreneurship Congress, which is the Davos of entrepreneurship, is held in a different country every year.
Turkey team; Endeavor, Habitat, in partnership with the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TIM) and the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), stood out among many strong candidate countries with its bid to host this congress and was entitled to organize the congress in Istanbul in 2018.
More than 7500 participants, 60 companies and 50 NGOs participated in this congress. Our dream is to host the Global Entrepreneurship Congress once again, together with our stakeholders, with our successful performance during the Global Entrepreneurship Week this year.”
“There is a lot of interest in entrepreneurship in Anatolia”
GEN Turkey Executive Board Member and Coca Cola Company Turkey General Manager Başak Karaca said that while the number of stakeholders and events increased during the Global Entrepreneurship Week; Emphasizing that the GGH has reached a wider structuring throughout Turkey, he continued as follows:
“At this point, Global Entrepreneurship Week has become a self-executing campaign with organic growth. On the other hand, we see that the quality of the events is gradually increasing and there is a very serious interest in entrepreneurship, especially in Anatolia. At this point, we think that it is very important to spread the Global Entrepreneurship Week, especially by working from city to city. Calling our ecosystem players and stakeholders in all provinces, we say ‘let’s spread our wings to the future’ this year.”