Backed by the highest public establishments, a serious occasion in Istanbul this week noticed awards being granted to entrepreneurs as a part of cooperation geared toward encouraging innovation in all areas associated to sports activities.
Organized as a part of a protocol signed by the Youth and Sports Ministry and Industry and Technology Ministry to advertise scientific analysis, entrepreneurship and scientific consciousness amongst youth, the Individual Young Entrepreneur (BIGG) Sports Awards ceremony noticed startups with the perfect sports-oriented expertise initiatives being prolonged whole monetary help of TL 1 million (about $53,000).
Addressing the occasion, Youth and Sports Minister Muharrem Kasapoğlu emphasised the significance of innovation in sports activities expertise.
“Just as in all other areas, we must attach special importance to our technology-based ventures and domestic production in sports,” Kasapoğlu stated.
For his half, Industry and Technology Minister Mustafa Varank introduced they might quickly be launching a brand new initiative for sports activities applied sciences inside the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye’s (TÜBITAK) BIGG Sports program.
Varank additionally recommended that the highest restrict of the help within the subsequent version of this system be elevated to TL 450,000 and for the quantity prolonged to the profitable enterprises to be lifted to TL 300,000, up from TL 200,000, a name that was backed by Kasapoğlu.
7 classes and 84 startups
The competitors noticed 84 expertise startups apply for classes that included augmented and digital actuality functions in sports activities expertise, synthetic intelligence functions in sports activities, wearable applied sciences in sports activities, particular person and crew follow-systems evaluation, coaching, rehabilitation and well being applied sciences in sports activities, nationalization of imported sports activities tools, and synthetic limb/prosthetic applied sciences in sports activities.
Also addressing the ceremony, Hasan Mandal, head of TÜBITAK, stated: “Through the BIGG Sports Awards Competition, we aim to develop innovative approaches in all areas related to sports, support technological initiatives and increase awareness of sports technologies.”
Inspired by nationwide athlete
One of the award-winning firms, Filament Technology, developed a carbon fiber-reinforced composite prosthetic foot for short-distance runners, which was impressed by the nationwide athlete Nurullah Kart’s costly buy of the same product from overseas.
“We started with the idea of developing and producing personal and more affordable prosthetic feet in Türkiye in shorter timeframes. We are a company established with the support of TÜBITAK,” the corporate’s director, Mert Tezkan, stated.
Olympic champ’s home bow
Recep Demirkan, the supervisor of Navek Sportif, which produced the home bow utilized by Olympic Champion archer Mete Gazoz, stated: “The bow utilized by Mete Gazoz on the Olympics was a undertaking supported by KOSGEB and we constructed on that undertaking. It is a undertaking that has achieved varied successes in European, world and Turkish championships.”
“I’m additionally a former nationwide athlete. We began this business as a result of difficulties we have been going through, and our crew is our nationwide crew, we’re a crew of about 45 individuals. We can’t describe the delight of this,” Demirkan famous.
Statistical resolution for golfers
Ayşe Yılmaz from Rapsodo Yazılım, which acquired an award for “Mobile Shot Tracking Technology for Golf Game,” stated they carried out the undertaking to enhance golfers’ sensible talents.
“In the mobile application, the data from the device is calculated and the location where the ball would fall in the real world is displayed on the map and video. So the player can see their own shot statistics. Therefore, they can identify their weak points and practice more on them,” stated Yiğit Sevin from the identical firm.
Tech for soccer gamers
Sensiball VR developed a expertise that enables the testing of soccer gamers’ cognitive expertise and supplies coaching suggestions primarily based on the participant’s weaknesses within the digital setting.
“We have a patented technology that has the potential to make us a pioneering company in the world. This technology also allows the football player to feel the point that the ball touches in a virtual environment with haptic feedback. In this context, we can test football players’ cognitive, technical, and neuropsychological skills and provide appropriate training recommendations using the scientific scenarios we have developed,” a member of the corporate, Ali Onur Cerrah, stated.
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