As part of the 8th International Conference on Higher Education Studies, organized by the Association for Higher Education Studies on October 17–18, 2025, a panel titled “A Model for a Social Impact–Driven Academy: İstasyonTEDU Social Innovation Center” was held. The panel brought together Dr. Sinem Güravşar Gökçe, Dr. Aslı Aygüneş, Elif Muratoğlu, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ersan Ocak as speakers. The panel discussion explored the role of social entrepreneurship and social innovat

The international partners’ meeting of the Youth Empowerment for Social Impact – YES Impact Project was held between October 6–9, 2025, in Albacete, Spain, hosted by project partner Social Innovation LAISVĖ Cluster. During the meeting, partners shared the initial outputs of their work carried out within the scope of the project’s research component. As a result of the research, initially the country reports are being prepared by each consortium partner, specifically focusing

Between September 12–14, the Future Economies Summit, organized by the Association for Prosumption Economy and the Kadir Has University Center for Energy and Sustainable Development (CESD), took place with Catalyst Now Türkiye Chapter as one of its partners. On the first day of the summit, the Catalyst Now Community Gathering was held in collaboration between İstasyonTEDU, the coordinator of the Catalyst Now Türkiye Chapter, and the Catalyst Now Lebanon Chapter. The gathering

Organized in collaboration with İstasyonTEDU and the TED University International Programs Office, the Social Entrepreneurship Summer Camp took place between July 7–13, 2025, as part of the Blended Intensive Program component of the SocialEASE Erasmus+ International Internship Consortium Project. Hosted by the social enterprise Gümüşlük Academy, the camp brought together 23 students from six different European countries. Prior to the program, participants attended an online p

Effective and Impactful Entrepreneurship Program, led by Oyunda Kal Association in collaboration with İstasyonTEDÜ, “Gençİzmir” team of İzmir Metropolitan Municipality, and CharacteriX concluded on June 28 with the closing event held at the Impact Hub İstanbul after a busy program consisting of 6 months and 21 hours in total. In the closing event 10 young entrepreneurs including Selin Sude Yılmaz from TED University Psychology Department, presented their ideas of enterprise a

Within the scope of Erasmus+ Staff Mobility within TED University, a visit to the Humanities Venture Lab at the University of Amsterdam was carried out by Dr. Aslı Aygüneş, Projects Coordinator of İstasyonTEDU, between March 3-7. During the Humanities Venture Lab visit, various meetings were held with ecosystem stakeholders and community members. During this visit, Aslı Aygüneş conducted a two-hour workshop on "Theory of Change and Ecosystem Mapping" on March 4 as part of the

Our application to the "Civil Society Research" project call opened within the scope of the "3005-Innovative Solutions in Social Sciences and Humanities Research Projects Funding Program" in cooperation with the Directorate General for Relations with Civil Society and The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) is funded. "An Innovative Model Proposal for Financial Sustainability of NGOs: Social Entrepreneurship" project, led by Dr. Sinem Güravşar

Applications for the second grant period (2024-2026) of the SocialEASE Erasmus+ Internship Program, developed and implemented in collaboration with İstasyonTEDU and TEDU International Programs Office, have been completed. SocialEASE, an EU-funded internship consortium project, was implemented under the coordination of TED University in collaboration with Van Yüzüncü Yıl University, Yaşar University and Originn. The program offers TEDU undergraduate and graduate students as we

European Social Enterprise Monitor (ESEM) was first launched in 2020 by Euclid Network (EN) to provide reliable and comparable data on...

Co-Creation Workshops, where various stakeholders came together to discuss the toolkit, took place between August and September under the...