Within the scope of “ECITE: Emergence of Creative Industries and Transformation of Economy of Gaming, Wearables and New Generation Film Production” Project, co-financed by the European Union and the Republic of Türkiye, and whose Contracting Authority is the Ministry of Industry and Technology and the Beneficiary is the Middle East Technical University (METU), the first Info Day was organized on 16.02.2024 at CerModern in Ankara.
Creative sectors professionals, freelancers, and students from the fields of Gaming, New Generation Film Production and Wearable Technologies gathered at the “METU Crea Info Days – Ankara.”
Having delivered the opening speech of the event, the rector of Middle East Technical University Prof. Dr. Mustafa Verşan Kök stated that with ECITE Project and METU Crea, METU will home an important structure for enterprises and entrepreneurs and will provide consultancy and training opportunities on product development and commercialization by enhancing competitiveness and sustainability of creative sectors in global extent through the renewed infrastructure of METU Design Factory, TEKNOKENT ATOM and GISAM.
During the event, Project’s Team Leader Rasmus Wiinstedt Tscherning, the Director of METU Design Factory Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç, Entrepreneur and Experience Designer Yakup Bayrak, and Project’s sectoral experts Dr. Leyla Türker Şener, Dr. Serkan Şavk and Nihat Baran Menteş delivered speeches and presentations.
