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OzU and its Sustainability Approach
All members of Özyeğin University develop entrepreneurial, transformative, and sustainable solutions as they fulfill the University’s core activities of education, research, and knowledge transfer. To this end, we are committed to serving as a national, regional, and global role model for a sustainable life style, and minimizing the negative environmental, social, and economic effects of our activities.
Share of Sustainability Funds in Research Funds
Share of Sustainability-Related Student Clubs in all Clubs
Share of Sustainability Courses in all Courses
Share of Sustainability-Certified Buildings (in all academic buildings)
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Looking into the Climate Trauma from the Gender Lens | Sustainability Talk Announcement
Date: December 22, 2021
Time: 12:40 – 13:30
Location: Zoom
In our next Sustainability Talk “Looking into the Climate Trauma from the Gender Lens”, we featured Deniz Gündoğan İbrişim, a Marie Curie Fellow at Sabanci University within the Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence whose research interests are centered on gender studies, as our guest speaker.
More InfoAdvanced and Recycling-Centric Production Practices | Sustainability Talk Announcement
Date: December 9, 2021
Time: 12:40 – 13:30
Location: Zoom
At our next Sustainability Talk: “Advanced and Recycling-Centric Production Practices”, we featured Ayşe Yılmaz, founder of Ottan Studio, a social initiative founded to pursue creative activities on sustainability and art, placing sustainable and aesthetic product development practices at the heart of its activities.
More InfoA Look into 2030 From the Renewable Energy Perspective | Sustainability Talk Announcement
Date: December 1, 2021
Time: 12:40 – 13:30
Location: OzU-X B27
The Sustainability Talk “A Look into 2030 from the Renewable Energy Perspective” we featured Assistant Prof. Göktürk Poyrazoğlu from the Electrical-Electronics Engineering Department at Özyeğin University.
More InfoWhat’s This Thing We Call “Climate Crisis”? | Sustainability Talk Announcement
Date: November 25, 2021
Time: 12:40 – 13:30
Zoom
The Sustainability Talk “What’s This Thing We Call Climate Crisis?” we featured Öykü Şenlen Gündoğan, researcher for Fossil Fuel Transition at E3G, a UK-based think-tank.
More InfoSustainability Talks Series | 2021-2022 Fall Semester Program
As the Özyeğin University Sustainability Platform, one of the many events we organize in order to enhance the University’s knowhow in sustainability and promote the dissemination of knowledge in this field is the seminar series “Sustainability Talks”. The seminar series is designed to explore the multi-layer and complex topic of sustainability with invited speakers from different disciplines that bring an innovative approach to sustainability. The impact of the seminar series is augmented with interactive discussions that the series facilitates.
More InfoJoint Project by Özyeğin University and the Ministry of Industry and Technology: Integration of Rural and Urban Economies
Özyeğin University launched a new project “Integration of Rural and Urban Economies” under the auspices of the General Directorate for Development Agencies at the Ministry of Industry and Technology. The project will be led by the Sustainability Platform at Özyeğin University under the academic coordination of Dr. Faik Gür, an OzU faculty member. The project team will also feature Dr. Candan Türkkan.
More InfoThinking About Our Common Future Through Art
The 2021 Orientation Program was held online this year due to the pandemic. As the Sustainability Platform, we held 7 simultaneous online workshops under the title of "Thinking Our Common Future Through Art" within the framework of the Earth Hour events program.
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