Education Specialist

A. Selçuk Akgül

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Selcuk Akgul, who has worked with various universities and institutions around the world, is the first licensed entrepreneur coach of Turkey. Being a lifelong member of Fulbright, he taught Business, English for Business, Entrepreneurship and Innovation-based courses and seminars in Turkey, UK and US.

Being accredited by London Chamber of Commerce as a teacher of English for Business, our expert has been approved by British Council as "United Kingdom educational consultant". His theses at Marmara University are as follows: the Artificial Neural Network Application on ISE, and a qualitative analysis on Educational Entrepreneurship in Istanbul.

His innovative project to teach English while promoting global citizenship "Continuous Improvement Groups" was awarded by TÜSİAD at the Entrepreneurship Congress in 2005. Likewise, he was awarded "Entrepreneur Appreciation Award" for his work in the State of Wisconsin in 2008 by the Association for Entrepreneurship and Innovation Centres.

Since 2012, he continues his academic research at Harvard University. Some scientific studies made by our teacher are given below:

•“Creating Value Added Using The Synergy Between Democracy, Education And Entrepreneurship” (Knowledge Economy and Management Congress, Izmit, 2006)
•“Two Successful Cases of Corporate R&D from Turkey as a Developing Country” (1st European Conference on R&D, Seville, 2007);
•Building A Center Of Innovation And Entrepreneurship In Turkey In The Light Of The New Economy” (ISBE International Entrepreneurship Congress; Glasgow,2007).
•“Entrepreneurıal Educatıon For A Global World” (9th International Entrepreneurship Forum, Istanbul, 2009)
•“A Research On Determining The Entrepreneurial Characteristics Of The Students At State Universities In Turkey” (6th Joint International Scientific Symposium on Business Administration, Carvina 2010)

SENIOR CONSULTANT

M. Rıfat sağlam

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Having his master's and PhD at the University of Wisconsin in the field of Civil Engineering Professor Rifat Saglam has been crowned with honors as a result of the United States and Turkey-based projects by New York Academy of Sciences and SIGMA XI In America. He has achieved major and extensive construction projects in the implementation phase abroad and in Turkey.

He is a member of the following organizations:
Istanbul Project Management Association (Founding Member), All Futurists Association (Founding Member), A.S.C.E., A.C., the PMI - Project Management Institute, the National Society of Professional Engineers, CTBUH - Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat, I.R.E.I. - International Real Estate Institute and Fulbright.

He is still continuing his services with fifty years of experience. Some of his numerous projects and hundreds of seminars are as follows:

• Effective Project Proposal Preparation Methods - Winning Project Proposals
• Project Financing Sources and Project Management
• 21. How Should Universities century
• Agenda Item of the mega city
• Turkey's Urban Problems and Structural Propositions
• Tall skyscrapers Buildings
• Urban Renewal - London Dockland's project
• Istanbul, Old Peninsula Urban Renewal Project
• Megan Standing Relating they planned development of cities
• Ekolojik Konut Üretim Teknolojileri