TED Üsküdar College Entrepreneurship Club in the 27th National Final of the GençBizz High School Entrepreneurship Programme

13 April 2026

The TED Üsküdar College Entrepreneurship Club achieved a significant success in the 2025–2026 GençBizz High School Entrepreneurship Programme run by the Genç Başarı Education Foundation, earning a place among the 15 finalist teams selected from 1,000 applications across Turkey.

Designed for high school students aged 16–18, the GençBizz High School Entrepreneurship Programme is a hands-on learning model in which students, mentored by business volunteers and guided by their teachers, set up their own companies with zero capital. Students develop and sell real products and services, gain experience of running a company and present their projects on national and international platforms. Run in 123 countries for some 50 years, the programme is a respected entrepreneurship education officially recognised by the European Union.

After about six months of intensive work, TED Üsküdar College students reached the final with their “SafeFreeze” project — an innovative indicator that monitors the cold chain, particularly for ice cream, and warns of possible spoilage.

We congratulate our students and teachers on this outstanding achievement and wish our Entrepreneurship Club success at the National Final, to be held at İş Sanat Cultural Centre on 8–9 May 2026.

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The GençBizz High School Entrepreneurship Programme is run by the Junior Achievement Turkey foundation (Genç Başarı Eğitim Vakfı) together with the Ministry of National Education's Directorate General for Secondary Education. Over a school year, high school students set up their own company and develop a product or service.

The 27th Türkiye Final was held on 9 May 2026 at İş Bankası's İş Towers in Istanbul.
Finalist teams presented their products at stands and then gave stage presentations to the jury.
Alongside first, second and third prizes, special awards were given in areas such as sustainability and human resources.

Source: Ekonomist – Genç girişimciler Türkiye finalinde buluştu

Last updated: 4 October 2026