The 2015 European Awards for the Promotion of Entrepreneurship, organized under the national coordination of the Small and Medium Enterprises Development Organization (KOSGEB), will be judged in six categories: fostering the entrepreneurial spirit, investing in talent, improving the entrepreneurial environment, supporting businesses at international level, promoting resource efficiency and the development of environmentally friendly (green) markets, and responsible entrepreneurship.
With the project titled "Determination of Usage Criteria of Products Recovered from Construction and Demolition Wastes" supported by the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization and carried out by the TÜBİTAK MAM Materials Institute, cement, brick, concrete products (garden furniture, paving, curbs, etc.) and sample asphalt roads were produced by using certain proportions of construction demolition waste. The project, which was carried out in cooperation with municipalities and service and commodity providers in various sectors ranging from waste logistics to construction material producers, was successfully completed.
2015 European Entrepreneurship Promotion Awards, as a result of the evaluation made among 22 projects in the national qualifiers, Turkey was nominated as a "candidate project" worthy of the award in the category of "Supporting Resource Efficiency and the Development of Environmentally Friendly (Green) Markets" and the nomination process was officially initiated before the European Commission.
In the "2015 European Entrepreneurship Promotion Awards Competition", which will be held for the 10th time this year and in which public institutions in EU countries, Iceland, Norway, Serbia and Turkey participate with their projects, the award winners among the candidates determined from each country at the end of the national selection processes will be announced at the "SME Assembly" event to be held in Luxembourg on November 18-20, 2015 within the scope of European SME Week.
We would like to congratulate the General Directorate of Infrastructure and Urban Transformation Services and its staff who supported the project from the beginning to the end and carried out the project control, our stakeholders (İSTAÇ A.Ş., İSTON A.Ş.; İSFALT A.Ş., AKÇANSA A.Ş., İKİZLER Brick Factory Ltd. Şti) and TÜBİTAK MAM Presidency and Materials Institute Directorate and project staff who contributed to our project and wish success in the competition to be held in Luxembourg on November 18-20, 2015.
