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'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2020/01/14/fire-up-announcement Fire-Up Changemakers Program:]''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.
'''[http://www.dijifikir.org Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':]''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.
'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2019/10/24/elevator-pitch-is-over Presentation Workshop and Presentation Competition/Elevator Pitch:]''' This competition is organized to give students the ability to express their ideas easily in a short time and to improve their presentation skills. ITU students applying for the competition are trained in the pre-competition presentation workshop to express their ideas in a short time. After this training, a pre-selection is carried out and the students who pass the pre-selection are entitled to participate in the final. In the final, students are asked to present their business ideas by making a presentation in 90 seconds, and awards are given to the students who rank.
'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/02/20/default-calendar/startup-huddle-istanbul-february-event Startup Huddle Istanbul:]''' Startup Huddle is an international program of the Global Entrepreneurship Network(GEN), which has 10 million members with 20,000 partners in 160 different countries. Startup Huddle events are organized only in the ITU GİNOVA in Turkey. Each month, one or two early-stage startups find the opportunity to make a presentation on the Startup Huddle and they can get feedback from other entrepreneurs, mentors, and participants. Each presentation takes 6 minutes and followed by 20 minutes of the feedback section. The aim of the program is to develop local entrepreneurs and strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem.