We participated in the InovaTİM Innovation Competition held as part of Türkiye Innovation Week (TIW2025), organized by the Türkiye Exporters Assembly (TİM) with the support of the Ministry of Trade of the Republic of Türkiye. In the competition, in which 2,153 students and 403 teams from 82 universities participated, our project called AltLipit won the Second Prize in the Sustainability and Green Technologies Category.

The AltLipit Project aims to produce environmentally friendly microbial oil by fermenting agro-industrial by-products and wastes with native oleaginous yeasts, thereby providing a sustainable alternative to imported oils and supplying renewable raw materials for the food, energy, and cosmetics industries.

We would like to thank our supervisor, Prof. Dr. Remziye Yılmaz, for her unwavering support throughout this process, and Abalıoğlu Oil Industry Inc. for their collaboration.