C:F Hall of Fame School: Izmir University of Economics Featured in News

We are very happy to hear that Izmir University of Economics has been featured in many Turkish local newspapers as a member of the Most Innovative University Hall of Fame in the Challenge:Future Competition. Here is one of the clippings from ANAYURT. (Thanks, Damla, for the translation of the article.)

It was a great pleasure to have Izmir University of Economics in this year's C:F competition. We look forward to even more wonderful performance in the coming year.

İzmir University of Economics “Most Innovative University Hall of Fame”

Izmir University of Economics had achieved a great success through passing the semifinals to finals in Challenge Future Global Student Competition, which is among the most important university student organizations. Izmir University of Economics became the only university from Turkey that obtained a certificate through being honoured in the category of “Most Innovative University”.

In the competition which is based on creativity, innovation and developing new ideas for creating a sustainable future, hundreds of schools and thousands of students all around the world have competed for 20.000 euro. Izmir University of Economics, passing to the finals participated to the Challenge Future Boot Camp and Gala which took place in Bled, Slovenia between 14-18 May 2010. In the global competition which is organized for the first time this year, Izmir University of Economics succesfully represented Turkey.

Over 70 countries, 250 universities, 552 teams and 1644 students participated to the first competition, and only the team composed of Izmir University of Economics and Dokuz Eylül University students achieved to pass to the finals from Turkey. The team leaded by Damla Aktan, who is a masters student in Business Administration Department of Izmir University of Economics achieved a great success through reaching upto the fourth range, and even if they could not enter among the first nine finalist teams, Izmir University of Economics achieved to enter into the Most Innovative University Hall of Fame.

In the competition which includes social subjects such as the role of youth in the future, communication, transportation, health, Izmir University of Economics, fort he finals, prepared a project proposal and a video on the challenge “how business schools may create a sustainable value in 5 years”. Damla Aktan, who entered to the competition with their team composed of 4 students told that they even could not imagined this result.

Finals Students who pass from two different process as semi finals and finals are obliged to form a team from 2 to 4 people, choose a subject among the alternatives, and prepare an innovative and creative project proposal. The projects published on the Challenge Future website are voted by the teams and determine the semifinalists. In the finals, the subjects are determined by the competition authorities. The finalist teams are obliged to prepare a video or a Powerpoint presentation on the chosen subject of their teams, and the finalist teams are seperately evaluated by a professional jury and are again pass through a voting procedure.