Youth Voices Group of Turkey organized a “Youth Employment and Entrepreneurship” one-day seminar in cooperation with Turkish Informatics Association Eskişehir Branch (TBD-Eskişehir) at the Eskisehir Anadolu University on July 6, 2006. Major aim of this seminar was to create a platform for young people to learn how to get assistance and services from various employment agencies in Turkey in terms of finding jobs and to learn what kind of entrepreneurship opportunities are offered by programmes and projects implemented by these agencies in Turkey.  | Participants |
In three seperate panel sessions, 60 participants composed of mainly university students had chance to get information on services of: - Turkey Employment Agency (İŞ-KUR),
- Small and Medium Sized Industry Development Organization (KOSGEB),
- Privatization Social Support Project (PSSP) financed by a World Bank loan,
- Anadolu University Entrepreneurship Training and Research Unit, and
- Eskisehir Young Entprepreneurs Training Centre.
After the opening speeches of Sadık Altınkaynak, Secretary General of Eskisehir Provincial Private Administration, Arsev Umur Aydınoğlu, Public Information Assistant of World Bank and Uğur Akkuş, President of TBD-Eskişehir, Deniz Kartal from İŞ-KUR Directorate General took part as a speaker in a panel session focusing on “services and activities of İŞ-KUR towards youth employment” in the morning session. “What is Entrepreneurship?, What kind of skills and experiences are required for being a entrepreneur?, What type of opportunities are available for young entrepreneurs in the context of PSSP and KOSGEB projects?” were some of the questions answered by Doğan Attila, an expert from PSSP and Necla Haliloğlu, Director of KOSGEB Entrepreneurship Develeopment Directorate in the first panel of afternoon session.  | Guran, Basar & Akkus |
Last panel session was devoted to “university dimension in entrepreneurship training” and “recent developments in entrepreneurship opportunities and activities in Eskişehir”. Mehmet Başar, Assistant Professor of Anadolu University Entrepreneurship Training and Research Unit and Uğur Akkuş, president of TBD-Eskişehir were speakers in this session. All these three sessions were moderated by the members of Youth & Employment Working Group (Ferhat Gök, Ozüm Tepetaş, Şahan Güran and Özge Konuralp) who were present during the seminar.. Please find quotes of some participants about the Seminar below: “Until this seminar, I only did know that İŞ-KUR is only providing job finding and guidance services to only unemployed people or services for low-qualified jobs. Now, I have more clear opinion how a university student and graduate can benefit from services offered by İŞ-KUR.”
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