Social Entrepreneur’s Profile

Mesut Keskin

E-Bursum

Mesut established E-bursum to build a democratization and digitization movement aiming to make student scholarships and loans more transparent, fair and impactful in Turkey. Mesut is turning a dysfunctional financial instrument in education into an empowerment tool and fundamentally changing the ways scholarship givers and recipients interact with one-another. 

The mission of the social enterprise before Corona:

Benefiting from the tools of the new era, Mesut is using technological opportunities to move the scholarship sector to the online platforms for a more democratic and accessible system. Seeing the repetitive processes of application and evaluation in the scholarship sector, Mesut is dedicated to replacing that repetition with computer science and to use the freed up human resource for activating young people as future leaders. Synchronized with central state database, E-bursum’s online platform enables students to see all the opportunities at once and apply for the relevant scholarships with one click, and the scholarship givers to create more objective and efficient evaluation processes.