An Award Ceremony was held for the MSKU Wise Ideas Competition, which aims to bring university students together with innovative, strong R&D direction, feasible in design fields and high value-added project ideas for production, with industrial organizations.
The competition, which was organized taking into account the priority needs of our province, region and country with a concept that supports digitalization in accordance with our era under the main titles of agriculture, animal husbandry, forestry and mining, attracted great attention from various platforms.
A total of 41 important projects from 12 different universities in 4 designated areas were submitted to the competition.
After the preliminary evaluations of the expert referees in their fields, 23 project ideas, 1 in the field of Livestock, 4 in the field of Mining, 5 in the field of Forestry and 13 in the field of Agriculture, were entitled to be finalized.
At the MSKU Wise Ideas Competition Award Ceremony, awards were presented to the projects that were evaluated live by the jury members consisting of industrialists and academicians.
Presentations for the competition were made in 3 sessions and the projects were evaluated according to the criteria of Originality and Creativity, Design and Method, Results and Suggestions, Common Impact and Applicability. After the collection of points from the juries and the final evaluation, the top three projects were announced.
Ahsen Yıldırım and Uğur Kaya from Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University won the first place in the Wise Ideas Contest with “Detection of Viral Diseases in Olive Plants through Artificial Intelligence”; Second place Yağmur Kocakullah from Manisa Celal Bayar University with the project "Don't throw! Make Eczema Friendly with Acid";
Mehmet Enes Süzek from Muğla Sıtkı Koçman University took the third place with his "Cellulosic Ethanol" project.
The winner of the Wise Ideas Contest was awarded with 7500 TL and a computer. The second of the competition was given 5000 TL and a tablet, and the third one was given 2500 TL and a tablet.