International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop Started

Izmir Metropolitan Municipality brought together social entrepreneurs from different countries of the world at the International Social Entrepreneurship Workshop. Speaking at the opening of the workshop, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Deputy Mayor Mustafa Özuslu said that they want to maintain an economic climate that creates high added value in İzmir and said, "Our aim is to increase the prosperity of the city and to share it fairly."

Mayor of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality Tunç SoyerInternational Social Entrepreneurship Workshop was held in line with the vision of developing the entrepreneurship culture of the city. The workshop, organized by the Metropolitan Municipality Social Projects Department in cooperation with the Social Business Global Association, at the Historical Coal Gas Factory Youth Campus, brought together social entrepreneurs from different countries of the world.

İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Deputy Mayor Mustafa Özuslu, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Deputy Secretary General Ertuğrul Tugay, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Social Projects Department Head Anıl Kaçar, Social Business Global Association President İsmail Hilmi Adıgüzel, and many conferences at the opening of the workshop, where successful social enterprise examples of countries will be examined. entrepreneur participated.

“We want to increase the prosperity of İzmir and share it fairly”

Speaking at the opening of the workshop, İzmir Metropolitan Municipality Deputy Mayor Mustafa Özuslu said, “Since we took office, our President Tunç SoyerWe attach great importance to studies that encourage entrepreneurship, innovation and innovation in order to make İzmir resilient in line with the vision of . Our aim is very clear: to increase the welfare of İzmir and to share it fairly. We want to make an 'economic climate' prevail in our city that creates high added value by blending innovative sectors and creativity.”

Evaluating the workshop as a useful work in terms of increasing awareness and competence regarding entrepreneurship, Mustafa Özuslu said: “The aim of the workshop to bring together the practices of social entrepreneurship in different countries and cultures and to create a reference for social entrepreneurs is extremely important in terms of creating know-how. We are striving to make İzmir a world city. While trying to reach this goal, we try to fulfill all the requirements simultaneously. We follow the whole world closely with our minds clear.”

“It acts as a bridge between public and social entrepreneurs”

Anıl Kaçar, Head of Social Projects Department of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, said, “Now, in addition to the understanding of municipality that collects garbage for citizens, provides water, pours asphalt, cleaning and law enforcement, it is adept at solving social problems, is able to meet all the needs of the city and its inhabitants, and can use the instruments in this direction to their abilities. It is expected that an understanding of municipalism that includes Expressing that entrepreneurs have social goals such as providing service to the society, providing welfare and fighting against poverty, in addition to their economic goals, Kaçar said: “At this point, social entrepreneurship, which melts public profit and social benefit in the same pot, comes to the fore. As the Social Projects Department, our Idea unit, where we are currently conducting workshops, exists to strengthen this purpose. We aim to provide mutual benefit with the center, which acts as a bridge between public and social entrepreneurs.”

There are participants from 18 different countries

Social Business Global Association President İsmail Hilmi Adıgüzel stated that they were excited to hold such a workshop in İzmir and said, “It is also a great pleasure to do something like this in my country. We want to explain social entrepreneurship to the farthest corner. Social entrepreneurship is a model that enables economic and social development, where we can work in the field of unemployment and solve social problems. We have friends from 18 different countries here. How is social entrepreneurship implemented in 18 different countries, in which sectors, in which areas, and with which models? We will examine them and archive them. Later, we will share this information with our friends who want to be social entrepreneurs or who are now social entrepreneurs.”