Rector's Speech 8

Inonu University students have a wide range of opportunities in science, art, technological studies, research and innovation. Inonu University Medical Faculty has been in the first or top third place in TUBITAK's (Scientific and Technological Research Institution of Turkey) student projects in the field of health for many years. Our medical students receive many TUBITAK research projects by taking their resources from TUBITAK during their education. Our students turn this work into an article by doing these studies in our own research laboratories or in Teknokent. In this way, a large number of student research articles came out of our Medical Faculty. Many students from our Faculty of Engineering also took TUBITAK projects and carried out successful studies. Many of our students took first place in the regional competitions organized by TUBITAK. We have a Compass Pre-Incubation Center and Incubation Center in Teknokent of Inonu University. Our students start to operate primarily in the Front Incubation Center. When they improve themselves there, they are now on the path to commercialization by establishing their company in the Incubation Center. Our students successfully show themselves in competitions such as Teknofest held throughout the country, as well as student project competitions held by different non-governmental organizations such as TUBITAK higher education region and country competitions. As Inonu University, we offer our students who are interested in scientific study and research numerous courses and workshops on subjects such as how to conduct research, how to prepare hypotheses, how to write articles, how to accurately construct various steps of research and how to successfully conclude a research. In Teknokent, we have a Front Incubation Center and An Incubation Center, and an Entrepreneurship Center under our Career Center. In the Entrepreneurship Center, these students have the opportunity to commercialize their own projects and ideas by developing them. We give very strong support to our students in this regard.