EIT Food Country Representatives - Turkiye

Yasar University

Yaşar University aspires to become Aegean Region’s most active innovation/entrepreneurship hub fostering inclusive spin-offs/startups/scale-ups and creating and sustaining innovative networks, pioneering in the areas of digital technologies applied in the agri-food sector; hence, to achieve sustainable circular economic development meeting all the regional, environmental, cultural, and social needs, in compliance with all quadruple helix actors (industry, academia, government and civil society) by 2030.

Impact Hub Istanbul

Impact Hub is the world’s largest social innovation platform focused on building entrepreneurial communities. 

Impact Hub Istanbul (IHIST), operating since 2016, engages 4,000+ stakeholders as a globally connected local ecosystem delivering international, interdisciplinary projects in impact entrepreneurship and social innovation in Türkiye. In 2017, IHIST founded Foodback, a dedicated agrifood innovation platform supporting disruptive solutions through ecosystem building, knowledge sharing, and startup support. Foodback plays a convening role in Türkiye’s agrifood innovation ecosystem by actively linking actors across the knowledge triangle of business, research, and education, and acting as an enabling intermediary that accelerates agrifood innovation.