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The global objective of this project is to achieve a high level of mutual understanding between finance sectors of civil society in Turkey and in the EU Member States, including the implications of Turkey’s EU membership.

Specific objective(s): Entrepreneurial learning and development of entrepreneurial skills by Entrepreneurial Training for students and Finance Management Training for SMEs by cooperation of universities and EU partner, AJEV Spain.

Overall coordination of the project activities,

And conducting business in accordance with the time schedule of the project activities,

The project partners and / or associates and ensuring effective and continuous communication between other relevant sectors.

In order for SMEs to flourish, a winning concept which boosts competitiveness and shapes a sound business environment is vital. With 23 million SMEs spread-out all-over Europe, this is influenced in many ways, not only from EU and National level but also from regional policies. And to maintain a broad base of SMEs is very important for the economic tissue of a region and thus for its wealth and sustainability.
The objective of this Proposal is to achieve a high level of mutual understanding between Finance sectors of civil society in Turkey and in the EU Member States, including the implications of Turkey’s EU membership, and Finance Management Training for SMEs by cooperation of Chambers of Commerce, universities, NGOs, SMEs, and EU partners.
The specific objectives of the project are:
On-the-job-training for new entrepreneurs in SMEs elsewhere in Turkey, Finland, Spain in order to facilitate a successful start and development of their business ideas.
Exchanges of experience and information between entrepreneurs on obstacles and challenges to starting up and developing their businesses.
To enhance market access and identification of potential partners for new and established businesses in other EU countries.
To prepare Module for Financial Management
Blended and On-line Financial Management Training for SMEs
Networking by building on knowledge and experience from Turkey, Greece & Spain.
Project will serve also following expected results by Finance Management Training for SMEs:
By promoting the role and value of SMEs in the EU economy. Since Financial successfully managed micro and SMEs will be key actors in this initiative, transferring their knowledge and experience to other entrepreneurs between countries
By raising competitiveness of European micro/SMEs, fostering the potential of newly established start-ups with the support of experienced entrepreneurs.
By building a new collaborative space targeted to boost trans-sectorial and cross-cutting collaborations at international level, including commercial, technological and/or other co-operation
By facilitating the internationalisation of the SMEs by fostering a network formed by entrepreneurs at
European level, including all eligible countries in the programme

There are 4 Transnational Meeting in the project:

1. Kick of Meeting in Afyon-Turkey, October 2017
2. Transnational meeting in Spain, May 2018
3. Transnational Meeting in Finland, September 2018
4. Closing meeting in Afyon, August 2019

There are 9 Training implementation in the project and

1. Afyon, 2 times 01.12.2018-30.07.2019
2. Istanbul 1 time 01.12.2018-30.07.2019
3. Usak 2 times 01.12.2018-30.07.2019
4. Ankara 1 time 01.12.2018-30.07.2019
5. 2 Training activities in Spain Valencia 01.12.2018-30.07.2019
6. 1 Training activities in Finland 01.12.2018-30.07.2019

5 Seminars.

1. Afyon
2. Usak
3. Ankara
4. Valencia
5. Finland

There are 5 intellectuals out puts in the project.
1. Quality Plan
2. 2 Training Modules
3. E-Platform
4. Web pageGlobally, access to finance remains as one of the most significant constraints to the growth, productivity and even survival of SMEs — and to the critical jobs they create. SME Academy Project scope is to prepare and apply online and seminar – based training to provide solution for SME credit gap.

The project has been designed in line with the notion of financial literacy and its significance on the financial inclusion of young people and improvement of entrepreneurial skills of young entrepreneurs through finance in a technological and innovative pattern. A number of international surveys and PISA tests, have evidenced a rather low level of understanding of financial matters and of basic economics among the average financial consumer. Even relatively straightforward financial products can appear quite complex to the average citizen who has little or no financial education. The lack or low level of financial literacy exposes the citizens to the risk of falling into debt, and of experiencing difficulties in the event of some unexpected adverse circumstance. It also makes it harder for individuals to ensure a satisfactory standard of living in retirement. So from the designed project view, the financial education is all about improving the financial well-being of individuals and society. By the general acceptance, from the project view, also it is essential to promote financial education amongst students and youths from an early age, as the knowledge and skills acquired by them at that stage will serve them in good stead as they progress through life. In this sense, the main objectives of the project is to develop a curriculum for financial literacy learning and implement this by scenarios to an innovative instrument, game-based learning tool, to improve the financial literacy competences of young people in Turkey and Spain, and develop a curriculum based on exploitation of serious game in financial literacy training and education. The project also aims at enhancing the European context of using technology and innovation in training and education in full accordance with the EU 2020 Strategy in general and the EU Agenda 2020 for Entrepreneurship in particular. The target group of the project is 1.000 young people from between ages 15-25 from different background in Turkey and Spain. Alongside with them, stakeholders representing universities, Ministry of Education, private and public institutions from financial sector will also be expected to participate in the project activities and beneficiaries of the project. Moreover, through the dissemination of the project via online instruments such as website and social media accounts, it is expected that the project will be able to reach out about 10,000 people. Within the project, a series of activities will be held including development phase through which the Turkish and Spanish games will be developed; transnational meetings of the partners at which the issues of the projects will be discussed, production of intellectual outputs, and multiplier events to disseminate the project outputs and results. A methodology titled ‘Strategic and Operational Management’ will be used to carry out the project from managerial point of view. Within the production of the game, a specific and advanced technological algorithms and software development systems will be used by the experts. At the end of the project it is expected that the financial competences of young people will improve, hence, their participation in the financial decision-making processes will be increased and more young entrepreneurs will enter into the world of entrepreneurship. Moreover, financial literacy education and training, currently, held within conventional methods, in Turkey and Spain will be technology based. Last and not least, the European added-value within the sector and through the cooperation of partners from Finland, Spain and Turkey will be strengthened, and the project will make contributing to the relations between Turkey and the EU through financial literacy that is included within the Chapter 9 Financial Services of the Acquis.