Üsküdar Üniversitesi Brain Park Incubation Center Technology Transfer Office offers a significant opportunity to students who want to turn their creative business idea into a start-up. Applications have started for the Üsküdar Wake Up Program, which aims to provide students at the beginning of entrepreneurship with the opportunity to “transform a business idea into a business model”. In the new call program themed “digital health and technology” that will last for 7 months, pre-incubation, incubation, and accelerator level ventures will be supported. Applications will be accepted until October 20, 2021.
Applications for “Üsküdar Wake Up” for entrepreneur students have started
Üsküdar Üniversitesi BrainPark Incubation Center Technology Transfer Office, which encourages entrepreneurs to generate new ideas, aims to transform these ideas into social and economic benefits and present them as innovative solutions, is preparing to launch a new program themed digital health and technology.
Üsküdar Wake Up, applications have started
Brain Park Incubation Center's new program, Üsküdar Wake Up, has started accepting applications from students who want to turn their creative business idea into a start-up. Applications will continue until October 20, 2021. In the new call program themed “digital health and technology” that will last for 7 months, pre-incubation, incubation, and accelerator level ventures will be supported.
Project preparation and management trainings will be provided
Within the scope of the Üsküdar Wake Up Program, entrepreneur students will be offered lectures, seminars, courses, and training programs on topics such as strategic plan design, innovation, project preparation and management, intellectual and industrial property rights, business plan preparation, and financial literacy.
At the end of the program, entrepreneur students are aimed to be brought together with entrepreneurs investing in technology and health fields.
Within the scope of the program, it is aimed to provide space, infrastructure, support, etc. services to entrepreneurs and aspiring entrepreneurs, with or without charge, to support the development and commercialization of entrepreneurs' business plans, and to organize activities that will bring together investors and entrepreneurs within the Incubation Center.
Additionally, creating a mentor pool to enable entrepreneurs to develop their ideas and provide guidance, and engaging in all kinds of activities related to the purpose of BrainPark Incubation Center are among the objectives.
The Üsküdar Wake Up Program is awaiting applications from students who have innovative ideas and want to offer products or services, have brought their venture to a certain stage but need support for growth, have established their business, are already making sales, and are bursting at the seams wanting to expand abroad.
To apply for the program: https://uskudar.edu.tr/tto/uskudar-wake-up-programi-basvurulari-basladi
BrainPark Incubation Center
BrainPark Incubation Center provides pre-incubation/incubation services in a 1000 m2 area at Üsküdar Üniversitesi Central Campus in Altunizade. BrainPark Incubation Center focuses on technology-based ventures in vertical areas such as Neuroscience, Digital Health, Artificial Intelligence, Wearable Technologies, Cyber Security, Forensic Sciences, and Personalized Medicine, with Üsküdar Üniversitesi's main R&D focuses being Behavioral Sciences and Health. With its central location, it is a center of attraction for technology-based ventures with innovative business ideas in this field.