Executed Projects

 

ERASMUS Plus KA203 Strategic Partnerships in Higher Education

Increasing youth employment is a key objective of EU employment policy and falls within the context of the Europe 2020 growth and employment strategy. Our main priority, which is based on the increasing dynamism of the environment we live in, especially in Europe, is based on the development of entrepreneurship skills of higher education students. Globalization and the new labor market empower young people with adaptive capacity, creativity, initiative, self motivation, coping with uncertainty, learning from own experience, etc. confronting them with ever-changing environments that require competencies. These and other competencies (such as teamwork, resource management, financial literacy, planning capacity, and ethical and sustainable thinking) are the competencies under the title of entrepreneurial competencies within the EntreComp framework to face the economic, social and cultural challenges in today's world. On the other hand, the development of these competencies is an opportunity for higher education students to increase their international involvement as well as foster their motivation and commitment to their professional future.

The overall aim of the project is to develop entrepreneurship and digital skills in higher education students in Europe.

The objectives of the project are listed below:

• Developing entrepreneurial skills in European higher education students.
• Developing digital skills in European higher education students.
• Training of educators at higher education level within the framework of the European EntreComp.
• Educating educators at higher education level in systematizing the use of EntreComp to teach their students entrepreneurial skills.
• Encourage higher education students to participate in a European-level project that will result in the development of their social skills (communication, self-esteem, participation, teamwork, assertiveness, language skills and social awareness)..
• Promoting cooperation between public administration, associations, companies and training centers at national and European level.
• Sharing of good practices developed between partners and participating countries.
• Dissemination of results among higher education level trainers, training centres, trainer training centres, informal organisations, public institutions, municipalities and companies.

Project Main Activities:

• International Meetings
  • Meetings led by the countries of 7 different project partners (2 of them as video conferences)
• Intellectual Outputs
• Learning and Teacher Activities
• Hackathon Competitions
• Multi-Event Closing Meeting

SOCIAL WORKSHOP (OSTİM INDUSTRY-SOCIAL VALUE CREATING CENTER)

The general purpose of the Social Workshop project, which is run by OSTİM Technical University and project partners are OSTİM OSB and Ankara Chamber of Industry (ASO); is the establishment of a center that provides the necessary infrastructure for understanding, nurturing, encouraging and supporting social entrepreneurship and starting its activities. With this mission, the “Social Workshop”, which will reveal the OSTİM Industry-Community Value Creation mechanism, will turn into one of the strongest actors of the ecosystem in time and turn into a sustainable model.

The “Social Workshop- OSTİM Industry and Community Value Creation Center”, which will be revealed with the project, will continue its activities in order to create an effective network that includes different stakeholders who want to contribute to the solution of social and economic issues, as well as to raise awareness on social innovation. In addition to educational activities, the Center develops new projects that will cooperate with the industry for the solution of social problems, encourage existing companies to social entrepreneurship and innovation, increase social benefit efforts, and aim to create a vibrant ecosystem that will serve non-governmental organizations and government institutions that want to produce projects.

Visit Social Workshop Web Page: http://www.sosyalatolye.com.tr/

 

OSTIMTECH FACTORY

Within the scope of the Social Development Support Program (SOGEP) with the coordination of Ankara Development Agency funded by the Ministry of Industry and Technology, the guided project named OSTİMTECH Factory was presented and deemed worthy of support as OSTİM Technical University in partnership with OSTİM OSB. In the project, which aims to open the OSTİMTECH Factory in the very center of OSTİM in order to reduce youth unemployment and increase entrepreneurship by encouraging entrepreneurship, 7 workshops (Digital Design Workshop, Machining Workshop, Electronics Workshop, Virtual Reality Workshop, Cyber Security Workshop, 3D Printer Workshop, Embedded Systems) The objectives of the project, for which the applied training curriculum will be developed for the vocational training courses to be presented in the workshop, are as follows:

1. Reducing the youth unemployment rate,
   • To increase the rate of entrepreneurship among the qualified unemployed or to increase employment as a business owner.
   • Reducing the rate of young unemployed by gaining professional competencies
2. Building a sustainable model,
3. To turn the SME city OSTİM into a full application area of university-industry cooperation after the project,
4. To support the establishment of the technical infrastructure to increase the competencies of OSTİM Technical University students.