Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey

After jury evaluations, the projects that were awarded were announced at the ceremony. Hüsne Temur, Nimet Özmeral and Semanur Erbay completed the final with teknoTeam project in first place. Merve Atalay was in second place with the Mapla project and Fatma Aouani Çöpoğlu in third place with the CH+.ai project.

In addition to the awards of 50,000 TL to the first, 30,000 TL to the second and 20,000 TL to the third, entrepreneurship mentorship will be provided by TOBB Women Entrepreneurs Council so that the contestants who ranked can implement their ideas. In addition, the first three finalists will receive free office and infrastructure services, free training and horizontal-vertical mentoring support for 6 months at TOBB ETU GARAGE Incubation Center in Ankara.

- “As TOBB, we will continue to support our women”

Tamer Kıran, Vice President of the Union of Chambers and Commodity Exchanges of Turkey (TOBB), said at the ceremony that women learned to write code during the first two periods of the project they launched in 2017. “‎Women have developed mobile apps. ‎They had the opportunity to test Turkcell's products and services. While some women became entrepreneurs, a significant number were employed in technology companies. The Women Writing the Future Project continued with the Climate Idea Marathon, which became very meaningful during the pandemic period. They competed with the technological solution ideas they developed on environmental and climate issues.”

Kıran explained that they matched each of the semi-finalists with the heads of TOBB Provincial Women Entrepreneurs Council, adding: “Our presidents from different regions and provinces gave mentoring support to the contestants in order to commercialize and develop their ideas. Our Women Entrepreneur Councils have worked hard both to increase the number of women entrepreneurs and to support our existing women entrepreneurs. They mobilized for this purpose in 81 provinces. They encouraged women to do these projects. This year, TOBB decided to give separate support to the contestants, unlike other periods. Today, we will offer free office and infrastructure support to our top three finalists who are eligible for awards in our entrepreneurship centers called 'stations' that we have established in 13 provinces so that they can participate in the commercialization and entrepreneurship ecosystem of their ideas. In addition, we will make free use of the certificate programs offered within TOBB University of Economics and Technology for all our semi-finalists.”

Kıran stated that the world is now moving from talking in the process of combating climate change to talking, and that the fight against climate change has become one of Turkey's most important agenda items, together with the European Green Deal process raised by the European Union and the Paris Climate Agreement signed by the will of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan.

Stating that ideas are needed in Turkey that will contribute to innovative and green transformation in every sector and in every field, Kıran said, “We care very much about this competition because it motivates the formation of such ideas. As TOBB, we will continue to support our women. If they’re strong, the family, the community, the country will be strong. I believe that by working together, we will achieve new success stories.”

- “We have created an important community of software developers”

Turkcell Chairman Bülent Aksu stated that they are working with the vision of being a model company in both Turkey and the world in sustainability efforts, “In this context, we are one of the first companies to implement the Zero Waste Project. On the other hand, we are implementing sustainable development goals in all our corporate processes within the framework of the United Nations Global Compact, which we have been a signatory to since 2007. As Turkcell, we have determined our sustainability strategy to be a carbon neutral company by 2050. In this context, last year we met all of our electricity consumption by supplying 100 percent renewable energy sources.”