From the University Agenda

Asst. Prof. Dr. Mert Yıldırım was awarded the 2nd prize in the "TET Project Market 12 Competition"!

Asst. Prof. Dr. Mert Yıldırım from Istanbul Gelisim University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, Department of Industrial Engineering, was awarded the second prize in the TET Project Market 12 Competition organized by the Electrical and Electronics Exporters Association, which operates within the Istanbul Mineral and Metals Exporters Association (İMMİB) with the support of the T. R. Ministry of Commerce and the coordination of the Turkish Exporters Assembly (TİM).

Turkey's first and only electrical-electronics and informatics-focused entrepreneurship competition was organized with the aim of producing high value-added production, making exports sustainable, and disseminating the culture of university-industry cooperation. In the 12th "TET Project Market 12 Competition", the projects were subjected to 3-stage evaluation: preliminary evaluation, main evaluation and final evaluation. While more than 300 project applications were made, the projects that received the highest scores from the evaluation board during the preliminary evaluation phase, where the projects that could take part in the event and participate in the competition were determined, were entitled to proceed to the main evaluation. During the two-day main evaluation phase, which was held on the Deal Room platform on December 13-14, 2023, expert juries, academics, managers of Turkey's largest stakeholder investment networks and incubation centers with a fund size exceeding 20 billion TL held one-on-one meetings with the project owners. In the main evaluation phase, the owners of the first 3 projects with the highest scores as a result of scoring out of a total of 100 points, taking into account the innovation contained in the project, the added value provided by the project and the feasibility of the project criteria, were entitled to participate as finalists. In the evaluation held on the Zoom platform on December 15, 2023, the finalists appeared before all the juries in their categories and made their 15-minute oral presentations. As a result of the jury's selections, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in three categories: "Environment and Energy Applications", "Health Applications" and "Other Applications" were determined.

The award was presented by Deputy Minister of Trade Özgür Volkan Ağar, TİM President Mustafa Gültepe and TET Chairman Güven Uçkan to Asst. Prof. Dr. Mert Yıldırım, who came second with his "Multifunctional Smart Composites" project in the Other Applications category at the TET Project Market 12 Awards Ceremony held at Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus on February 13, 2024.