Call for Applications: Land of Ideas - An innovation Program

Fikir Tarlası – An innovation program:

“Let's grow your ideas together”

Application Deadline: 18 December 2016

Aims:

Turkcell North Cyprus, TRNC Chamber of Industry and Informatic association of TRNC are starting new endeavor in order to support technology development by focusing on innovation.

We invite everyone to represent their ideas in the context outlined below and implement them in case if they win in order to integrate innovation culture to economy and increase competitiveness of fundamental economic sectors of TRNC through use of ICT.

Who can participate:

Entrepreneurs
Anyone who have an idea but no background in software development
Students those wish to implement their projects
Software development companies

Possible implementation areas:

Payment systems
Data analysis applications
IoT implementations / Smart building systems
Alternative communication systems (Video, text vb.)
Creative applications
Social media applications
Mobile applications
Other (Any other ideas those are not listed here – software / application )

Evaluation Criterion:

A committee (evaluation committee) evaluate applicant's ideas based on appropriateness to purpose, economic feasibility, authenticity and lastly, ICT sector relatedness
There is no formal format for applicants to present their ideas, any means of presentation should not exceed 3 pages or 1 min.
The evaluation committee comprise of 5 representatives from Turkcell North Cyprus, TRNC Chamber of Industry and Informatic association of TRNC
There is a consultation committee that comprise of 3 experts, selected by the evaluation committee
Intellectual property rights and legal obligations are of applicant's responsiblity. In order to protect intellectual property rights, it is suggested that applicant to get a copy of application form certified by a authorized officers
The number of ideas to be selected by the committee depends on the resource requirements and number of suitable applications
The committee make any changes that sees fit (on the timing and/or program itself)
If no suitable application received, the committee is not obligated to select any idea
50,000TL of the 100,000TL available budget is allocated for infrastructure and the rest is for software development.

What we offer:

A chance to make your ideas come true
A totaly new experiece if you just starting your professional carreer or education
Technical, managerial and marketing support from private sector experts
By Turkcell north Cyprus:
Kuzey Kıbrıs Turkcell tarafından;
- Training in the context of Turkcell Akademi ve Geleceği yazanlar projects
- Chance of work during the course of approved projet time
- Gaining experience in software/application development processes
- Free hosting of prospective product(s) in Turkcell's data center during alpha and beta tests
Technical support for company establishment or on legal matters in case if it is required
Support luching prospective product(s) in the local market
In the case of success in the local market, assessing international options