Sabancı University Entrepreneurship Council (SUGK) became the Turkish representative of the MY-WAY Project, an initiative that is funded by the EU Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Program and began on January 1, 2015.
MY-WAY is a two-year long project started on 1st of January 2015 and co-funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. The MY-WAY project aims at enhancing and improving the collaboration and efforts of web entrepreneurship initiatives (hubs, projects, accelerator networks, contests, etc.), web/business experts (accelerators, mentors, etc.), educational actors (business teachers and trainers) and the young adults as the final beneficiaries (through student networks, their alumni and student entrepreneurship centres).
The MY-WAY project will increase the visibility and impact of the web entrepreneurship initiatives and services by actively engaging student networks and support centres and connecting them with business networks within the web entrepreneurship ecosystem. The social network of young adults across Europe will enable a wide spread of information, discovery of synergies and linkages between the actors and their services. It will also act as a multiplier, successfully representing the targeted young adults. The following main results will be achieved:
● MY-WAY will map the web entrepreneurial ecosystem;
● Two stakeholder discussions will be organised in Brussels in October and December 2015;
● Four action plans will be developed in four countries (Budapest, Zaragoza, London and Istanbul) for the sustainable enhancement and harmonisation of the support offered by the student enterprise centres and networks for targeted young adults;
● Four Student Enterprise Conferences will be organised in 2016;
● 2016’da dört Öğrenci Girişim Konferansı düzenlenecek;
● Signed agreements between student support centres and web entrepreneurship support providers in different European countries will strengthen sustainability;
● MY-WAY will run the European Disruptors’ Network’s Secretariat.
Under the same call in Horizon 2020, a total number of ten projects have received funding. They will work together in order to support the implementation of the Startup Europe Initiative, which aims at boosting innovation, entrepreneurship and the growth of start-ups and thus injecting dynamism into the economy and society.
The MY-WAY consortium is composed of ten partners, from seven different countries, representing the main actors of the web entrepreneurship ecosystem. Sabanci University represents Turkey in this project. The project is coordinated by Europa Media Non-profit Ltd. (HU). The project partners are: London Association of Enterprise Agencies Ltd. - Capital Enterprise (UK), H-Farm Italia (IT), AEGEE Student Network (BE), NACUE - National Association of College and University Entrepreneurs (UK), Bar-Ilan University (IL), Sabanci University (TR), EUCLID Network (UK), YES - European Confederation of Young Entrepreneurs (BE) and Menlo Media - http://www.eu-startups.com/ (DE).
Project website will be available soon at www.mywaystartup.eu.