APPLICATIONS AND EVALUATION CRITERIA

The Ibrahim Bodur Social Entrepreneurship Awards were launched to keep the memory and legacy of Kale Group’s founder Ibrahim Bodur, who passed away in 2016, alive. Building on Ibrahim Bodur’s ‘people first’ philosophy, the awards aim to provide financial support to social entrepreneurs.

The Ibrahim Bodur Social Entrepreneurship Awards recognise social entrepreneurs who have already launched a pilot program. Accordingly, the awards to not support ideas.

In line with our transparency, fairness and equality principles we do not accept applications from Kale Group employees.

Applications to the Ibrahim Bodur Social Entrepreneurship Awards will be assessed in the category that applicants choose. Applicants may apply to any category that they think their application fits in with. However, it is not possible to apply to multiple categories.

There is no age limit to apply to the Ibrahim Bodur Social Entrepreneurship Awards. We accept applications from social entrepreneurs of all ages.

We do not disclose the information provided on the application form to any third persons or organisations that are not part of the project. Only Kale Group officials, the Ashoka Turkey team and jury members have access to the information that applicants provide on their form.

In the pre-evaluation phase, Kale Group officials and the Ashoka Turkey team assess all of the applications that applicants have submitted online before the deadline. After this step, the Pre-Evaluation Board will convene to determine the applications that will be at the jury’s evaluation phase. A reference check will then be made for the applications. The reference check will include all of the references stated on the application form as well as independent references. A total of 11 applications that pass the pre-evaluation stage will be shortlisted and assessed by the jury. Then, the jury will convene to evaluate the applications. The winning applicants will be contacted shortly after this meeting.

Yes. All you have to do is fill out the application form on our website. Once we receive your application you will receive an automatic confirmation that you have joined the evaluation process.

Click here for the Ibrahim Bodur Social Entrepreneurship Awards jury.

We will provide support to winning entrants with a prize of 50,000 TL each in the Scale-up Stage, Start-up Stage and Collaboration categories, reaching 150,000 TL in total.

Evet. İbrahim Bodur Sosyal Girişimcilik Ödülü değerlendirme sürecinde tüzel kişiliğin varlığından ziyade ekip yapısı ve bütçe gibi konulara öncelik verilecektir.