I am coordinating the activities of 4 partners of the EBIC-Ege, the regional Enterprise Europe Network consortium. Funded by the European Commission with a €2M+ budget under the Single Market Programme, EBIC-Ege delivers advisory services to SMEs and entrepreneurs, especially on digitalization, internationalization, access to finance and partnering. I am in charge of coordinating the project, ensuring the realization of proposed activities, following up on the KPIs, keeping track of the project budget, preparing and submitting technical and financial reports to the European Commission.

My key focus in this position is to match the university's skills with the opportunities that exist at the EU level. I facilitate the process of identifying EU grants suitable for Ege University and write, review, and check the quality of proposals that are being developed to meet EU requirements. I initiate, coordinate, and assist operational tasks ranging from call monitoring, selection, and preparation to final quality control. I make sure that topics are covered thoroughly and help identify appropriate project partners abroad. I am mostly interested in Horizon Europe programs and the cascade funds.I wrote the proposals of below projects;Coordinator - HORIZON-EIE-2022-SCALEUP-02-01- FundedCoordinator - SMP-COSME-2021-EEN-01 - FundedCoordinator - HORIZON-CL4-2024-HUMAN-02-35 – In EvaluationCoordinator - SMP-COSME-2024-EEN-01 – In Evaluation Partner - HORIZON-CL4-2024-RESILIENCE-01 – Not FundedI assisted academics with below proposals;Coordinator - HORIZON-WIDERA-2023-ACCESS-02 - FundedCoordinator - HORIZON-EIE-2024-CONNECT-02-01 – In EvaluationCoordinator - HORIZON-CL5-2024-D6-01-08 – In EvaluationCoordinator - ERASMUS-KA220-HED - Not FundedPartner – TUBITAK – MID Uzbekistan Bilateral Call - Funded

I managed the activities of Ege University in EBIC-Ege, which is the name of the regional EEN consortium, led by Ege University. In terms of KPIs, EBIC-Ege has been one of the best representatives of EEN in the last project period, doubling the Network's average performance. The consortium will continue to deliver tailored services with 4 partners until the end of 2027.

After working for 3 years in EEN, I specialized in business development and access to finance and provided in-depth services to my clients.

The Enterprise Europe Network, governed by European Commission, helps businesses innovate and grow on an international scale with 3000 experts in 60+ countries. I provided advisory services for business development, internationalization, capacity building and access to finance. I helped the organization of 40 international brokerage events, initiated 700 international collaboration offers and received 200 inquiries for my client’s business partnership offers in 3 years. These efforts resulted in more than 50 international partnership agreements.

I provide mentoring services to start-ups and entrepreneurs in our incubation center in the areas of business idea validation, customer segmentation, customer validation, market research, business plan writing, and access to funding. At the same time, I am working as a team coach within the scope of the HexaBIG project we are carrying out. HexaBIG is a pre-incubation program, supported by the government to assist entrepreneurs in their journey of establishing their start-ups and commercializing their products. Also, I took the role of mentor and evaluator in several hackathons organised by other organisations. In addition, I am responsible for the coordination of the marketing and internationalization operations of the D-TECH4ENT project, which is supported by the Ministry of Industry and Technology within the scope of IPA. I am also a member of the "Operation Coordination Unit". Within the scope of the project, a deep technology acceleration program was designed and in addition, a factory building with modern devices was put into operation for the scaling of prototypes.

I am doing professional market research and creating business plans, pitch decks, CIMs and whitepapers for clients mainly from North America, Europe and SE Asia. So far, I have worked for more than 50 clients.

I worked as Sales Engineer in subsidiary of SPIG SPA, an Italy-based worldwide company. SPIG produces cooling towers and air-cooled condensers mainly for power plants, refineries, sugar factories, steel factories. My main responsibilities were; - Getting in contact with current an potential customers especially by means of spare parts and revamping. - Organising face-to-face meetings and technicially evaluating the condition of cooling towers then offering best suitable solution. - Analysing SPIG's and competitors' position in the market by customer feedbacks.

Worked as Foreign Sales Engineer, in the company that is domestic market leader in solid fuel boilers. My responsibilities were; - Making market researches for new countries by phone calls, web search and emails. - Evaluating the product range of company regarding to the needs of regions. Cooperating with R&D department to develop new products if necessary. - Contacting with potential customers by email or phone - Organizing face to face meetings with potential and current customers. - Participitating international and regional exhibitions - Analysing similar products of competitors in terms of technical details and price. - Preparing technical documents related with products.

As a Sales Engineer (Aegean Region), I was responsible of; - Generating and qualifying sales leads, determining customer needs, developing the process and close sales - Managing Inbound oppurtunities - Creating new opportunities - Organizing face to face meetings - Preparing price quotations - Organizing seminars and events - Following up local and global events,news related with my potential customers

OEM Relations. Market research for new markets, preparing country reports. Analysis of distribution channels Exhibition participation Annual sales forecast of goods and customers Preparing export documents, making shipments. CRM and customer satisfaction applications, The factory was an applicant for Turquality programme and I was responsible for preparing Turquality application documents for sales department.

I worked as a production engineer, and I gained experience in the press, forging, heat treatment, machining, and assembly operations. I worked on the calculation of OEE based on technical methods, and at the end of this project, an OEE monitoring system was installed. Since the factory was in the progress of adapting lean manufacturing methods, I worked on lean production applications (JiT production, SMED, etc.) and also the Kanban system.