1. Izmir Chamber of Commerce: Provides both financial and moral support to refugee and immigrant entrepreneurs and company owners in Izmir in every sense, from training to trade.
2. IzQ Entrepreneurship Center: Provides an environment that supports entrepreneurs in all processes from the idea stage to the internationalization stage, supports startups in developing innovation-oriented products and services, and mediates entrepreneurs to contact investors, entrepreneurs, mentors and institutions at national and international levels.
3. İzQ Entrepreneurship Portal: It was created based on the understanding of establishing a solution-oriented center that targets the problem, where entrepreneurs, the business world, and the city will develop projects that will produce solutions to their problems. It aims to create an interactive environment where companies, municipalities, and NGOs will record the problems they experience in processes such as production, efficiency, and management on a platform, and where entrepreneurs will view the problems and produce solutions with their projects from there.
https://izq.com.tr/girisimportali
4. Ministry of Commerce: Provides financial support to entrepreneurs in the fields of export, e-export, service sector and overseas technical consultancy. It also provides online support to entrepreneurs through Easy Export and e-Easy Export Platform and Ministry of Commerce Support Management Systems.
5. Ministry of Commerce Easy Support: Presents the 14 different supports for entrepreneurs provided by the Ministry of Commerce in an easier and more understandable way.
6. Entreprenurship Center: Carries out studies to meet regional and sectoral needs with an entrepreneurial perspective in thematic areas determined each year by taking into account the strategic priorities of our city with basic entrepreneurship trainings, business development activities, mentoring services and seminars.
https://girisimcilikmerkezi.izmir.bel.tr/
7. İzmir Development Agency / İZKA: Provides entrepreneurs in İzmir with guided and unguided funding on a seasonal or year-round basis for their start-ups, projects and ideas.
8. İZKA Start-up Platform: Aims to promote the Izmir entrepreneurship ecosystem nationally and internationally and to develop the entrepreneurship environment in the region. Entrepreneurs meet with mentors and investors.
https://www.startinizmir.com.tr/
9. KOSGEB / Small and Medium Enterprises Development and Support Administration: Provides funds to SMEs and entrepreneurs.
10. ABİGEM / European Union Business Development Centers Network: Helps SMEs and entrepreneurs increase their competitiveness in national and international markets and develop their potential by providing professional training and consultancy services. Works in different cities in Turkey, not in İzmir.
East Marmara: https://www.abigemdm.com.tr/
Konya: https://www.konyaabigem.org/
Trabzon: https://www.abigemtrabzon.com.tr/
For other links and pages related entrepreneurship please have a look: https://dijitalgirisimcilik.org/girisimci-tesvikleri/
1. Izmir Governorship Provincial Directorate of Migration Management: Deals with all official affairs and procedures of refugees and immigrants from the moment they arrive in our country, from their civil registration process to their inclusion.
2. The International Federation of Non-Governmental Organizations (ULFED): Works to strengthen communication, develop capacity and legal environment in order to support the integration process of Turkish civil society organizations of Syrian origin to Turkey.
3. Turkish Red Cross: Provides adaptation and integration services to refugees and immigrants, provides in-kind and cash assistance, develops projects and programs to contribute to adaptation processes and supports their implementation.
https://www.kizilay.org.tr/neler-yapiyoruz/goc-ve-multeci-hizmetleri
4. IOM Migration Turkey: Provides cash and in-kind assistance to ensure the healthy integration of refugees into society. Works in cooperation with other organizations, SMEs and NGOs and etc.
https://turkiye.iom.int/tr/gocmen-ve-multeci-destek-programi
5. Solidarity Association with Syrian Refugees in Izmir: Facilitates Syrian refugee women and children to access psychological and health support, legal counseling, Turkish lessons and translation support, and different available state services such as state hospitals.
https://turkiyemultecikonseyi.org/TR/smdd
6. Refugee Solidarity Association: Protects and defends the rights of homeless people who have taken refuge in our country, such as asylum seekers, immigrants or refugees.
7. Social Solidarity and Development Association / SGDD-ASAM: Contributes to the development of a sense of trust and belonging by including refugees in society culturally, socially and economically, strengthening intercultural interaction, mutual recognition of differences within the framework of social dialogue and supporting coexistence.
https://sgdd.org.tr/calisma-alanlarimiz/sosyal-uyum/
8. UNHCR Türkiye: Supports for refugees or asylum seekers under temporary and international protection in Turkey regarding their registration by UNHCR, their registration by Turkish authorities, their rights and obligations in the country, education and training opportunities, regulations in the field of work, and medical and psychological assistance.
1. İzmir Chamber of Commerce Vision Magazine: Published by the Izmir Chamber of Commerce, this magazine provides information to entrepreneurs and company owners in different areas.
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2. Izmir Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Development Strategy: Draws a roadmap for entrepreneurs as a result of interviews with various stakeholders, by discussing the current situation, the obstacles to the entrepreneurial ecosystem, current deficiencies and needs, and the roles that stakeholders can undertake in developing the ecosystem.
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3. Ministry of Treasury and Finance – Central Finance and Contracts Unit (CFCU) CFCU ACADEMY Brochure: Provides training for funds and calls to get funding for projects and ideas.
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4. The Impact of Startups on the Economy: Explains the importance of start-ups and their contribution to the national and world economy.
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5. Innovation And Entrepreneurship Result-Focused Program: Contains descriptive information about the program implemented by the Izmir Development Agency, which aims to develop the innovation and entrepreneurship ecosystem in Izmir in a way that can provide the services needed by sustainable competition with a focus on blue growth and green growth.
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6. Izmir Entrepreneurship Research Report 2023: Reveals the situation of Izmir in terms of entrepreneurship with objective, independent and scientific methods.
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1. Being a Migrant in İzmir: The brochure published by the Izmir Metropolitan Municipality provides information about refugees living in Izmir for municipality employees. However, it will also be helpful to refugees and immigrants as it includes information about different institutions and organizations that refugees and immigrants can contact and the services that refugees and immigrants can receive.
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2. Migration Workshop: The workshop held in Gaziantep by the Cihannüma Solidarity and Cooperation Association included the topics of harmony and integration, economy and education. Under the title of economy, there are very useful solution suggestions under the main title of entrepreneurship.
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3. Syrian Refugees and the Responsibility of Municipalities: An essay about evaluating the service provision of thirty-one municipalities to Syrian refugees.
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4. Welcome to İzmir: It is a brochure about living in İzmir like historical places, important phone numbers, Municipality services and the rights and responsibilities of refugees and migrants.
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5. The Gates of İzmir: Migration Stories and Living Conditions of Urban Refugees: Reveals the social and economic conditions in the existing settlement by depending on the migration stories expressed in the interviews with Syrian urban refugees
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