Entrepreneurship Office

Hello, I'm Burak Dervişoğlu. I am a lecturer at Istanbul Topkapı University, Plato Vocational School, Computer Aided Design and Animation Program. Since my undergraduate education, I have done many studies on art and design. I am currently working on digital art at the doctoral stage. At the same time, I work as the Director at the Entrepreneurship Office. The Entrepreneurship Office was established in the summer of 2021. Our aim is to provide project opportunities for many of our undergraduate students in the arts and software fields. Students who bring their own projects have the opportunity to work here. By showing the projects they have worked on to the sector representatives, we give them the chance to enter the sector before they graduate. The Entrepreneurship Office is open to all students in the field of design and software within our university. Here, students can learn about digital games, mobile applications, software programming, and website design. We aim to conduct studies that combine many different technologies and design elements. The Entrepreneurship Office works in many areas such as digital arts and software applications, digital games, and website development. We developed many digital games in 2021. With Social Responsibility Projects, many of our students contributed to various issues. We designed a game so that children with SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) can attract more attention in society. Within the scope of the game, we animated a virtual environment where children with SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) are able to walk and run. This project came entirely voluntarily by our students and we fully supported it. In this context, we have developed a small game for children. In the game, they can run, walk and live a healthy life. Within the scope of this game, we have made the voices of many children with SMA (Spinal Muscular Atrophy) heard in Turkey. We have many students who can benefit from the Entrepreneurship Office in different areas; such as digital design, art, games, and software. First of all, these students need to keep up with new technologies. New concepts are emerging everyday such as Metaverse, NFT, and Blockchain. They need to be included in these, and we fully support this. Here we are developing Metaverse projects, games and applications, but the important thing for us is that our students are willing to pursue these. After all, our aim is to raise competent individuals who can enter the market before they graduate. In this context, more than 200 of our students have worked here, and nearly 40 of our students found a job before they even graduated. So, I think this place is useful for students. My advice to the students who will come here is to always be curious, always research, because the more you research, the more you learn and the more you learn, the more you develop yourselves. I wish success to the candidates who will prefer Istanbul Topkapı University, we are waiting for you at the Entrepreneurship Office.