In the “Bu Gençlikte İŞ Var!” Best Business Ideas Competition operated by TÜSİAD with the aim of encouraging young entrepreneurs, students Beliz Bediz from METU Bioinformatics Department and Yunus Can Esmeroğlu from METU Biology Department have placed first with their project “Heavy Metal Sweepers”.
Under the guidance of Limak Holding Inc. board member Ebru Özdemir, the team from METU, with the idea of “Indefinite Neutralization of Toxic Heavy Metals via Confinement by Endospore-forming Bacteria”, has obtained the first place among 154 new business ideas from 48 universities. Besides the money award, the team was also awarded with a virtual office for developing the plan further, an e-trading internet service, accounting and financial consulting and judicial consulting.
