ENTREPRENEUR SUPPORT PROGRAMME
MOTIVES AND OBJECTIVES OF THE PROGRAMME

•   Developing and disseminating the entrepreneurship as the basic factor for solving the economic development and employment issues,
•   Establishing successful and sustainable enterprises,
•   Disseminating the entrepreneurship culture ,
•  Developing entrepreneurship by establishing the Business Improvement Centers (BICs),
•   Raising the employment level,
•   Supporting the entrepreneurship based on the local dynamics

Entrepreneurship Support Programme comprises of 3 subprogrammes:

•  Applied Entrepreneurship Training
•   New Entrepreneur Support
•   Business Improvement Centre (BIC) Support

Applied Entrepreneurship Training

•    It includes training and workshop studies of minimum 60 hours (entrepreneurship abilities testings, business idea exercises and business plan preparation)
•   Applied Entrepreneurship Trainings can be organized by KOSGEB or other foundations or institutes (universities, ISKUR, professional organizations, municipalities etc.)
•   Trainings are arranged for general and specific (youngs, women, disadvantageous groups) target groups,
•    No charge from participants.

New Entrepreneur Support

• This support is available for
•  The entrepreneurs who had completed the applied entrepreneurship training and started his/her own business,
• ISGEM entrepreneurs

New Entrepreneur Support Components

 Business Improvement Center (BIC) Support
Business Improvement Centers are centers founded and operated with an aim of enabling the companies under its umbrella to pass through the critical early years healthily and grow up by extending services such as business improvement consultancy, workshop sites that can conveniently be afforded, shared office equipments and office services.
Municipalities, universities, special administrations, development unions, professional organizations and non-profit organizations can solely or collectively apply for the Business Improvement Centers establishment.

Business Improvement Center Support Components