Provide Expert Advice to Government

Özyeğin University provides expert advice services to local and national governments. For instance, Assistant Professor İsmail Arı from the Faculty of Engineering serves as a member of the Advisory Board for Technology and Innovation Funding Programs, contributing to Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 9. Additionally, eight faculty members have participated in 12 different Expertise Commissions for the preparation of Turkey's 11th Development Plan, which will serve as the main blueprint for progress between 2019 and 2023. These faculty members include Professor Işıl Erol, and Assistant Prof. Mehmet Ali Soytaş, who contributed to Sustainable Development Goals 8 and 12 as members of the Consumption and Savings Trends Expertise Commission; Assistant Prof. Deniz Sert, who contributed to Sustainable Development Goal 10 as a member of the Foreign Migration Policy Expertise Commission; Professor Işıl Erol, who contributed to Sustainable Development Goals 8, 11, 12, and 17 as a member of the Commissions for Developing Financial Services, Consumption and Savings Trends, and Housing Policies; Dr. Pınar Gökçin ÖzUyar, who contributed to Sustainable Development Goals 12, 13, 14, and 15 as a member of the Commission for Sustainable Management of Environmental and Natural Resources; Prof. Dr. Ümit Özlale, who contributed to Sustainable Development Goal 8 as a member of the Commissions for Growth Dynamics and Combating Inflation; Prof. Mustafa Topaloğlu, who contributed to Sustainable Development Goal 15 as a member of the Mining Policies Expertise Commission; and İhsan Elgin, who contributed to Sustainable Development Goals 4 and 8 as a member of the Commission for Developing Financial Services. It's noted that links to Expertise Commission Reports and the 11th Development Plan are published online. As an example, the link to the Entrepreneurship Expertise Commission Report for the previous 10th Development Plan is provided. Among Özyeğin University's areas of expertise for the national government are rural development and migration. ÖzÜ collaborates with the Husnu Özyeğin Foundation on rural development and is a member of the IPARD (Pre-Accession Assistance for Agriculture and Rural Development) Monitoring Commission. The university also provides consultancy services to the International Center for Migration Policy Development on migration issues in Turkey.

Turkey's Energy Efficiency Outlook in Industry

Özyeğin University Center for Energy, Environment, and Economy (CEEE) launches a campaign on energy efficiency by implementing the "Turkey's Energy Efficiency Outlook in Industry" project with TUSIAD (Turkish Industry and Business Association). The aim is to contribute to the reduction of the current account deficit and the energy bill of the industrial sector by realizing our efficiency potential in energy, which we are dependent on abroad. TUSİAD President of the Board of Directors Orhan Turan states that ‘According to the data of the Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, as of the end of July'23, the distribution of our installed capacity according to resources is: 30% is hydraulic energy, 24.1% is natural gas, 20.7% is coal, 11% is wind, 9.9% is solar, 1.6% is geothermal, and 2.6% is other resources. According to the International Energy Agency's World Energy Outlook's Determined Policies Scenario, which is based on the latest policy settings around the world, the new measures will help increase global clean energy investments to more than $2 trillion per year by 2030. That's an increase of more than 50 percent compared to today. Again, according to this scenario, coal use declines in the next few years, while natural gas demand stops increasing at the end of 10 years. When data on energy consumption is read together with climate change targets, we see that renewable energy, energy efficiency, and clean energy investments will play a decisive role in the global and national energy equation. The energy crisis does not seem to be removed from our agenda anytime soon. The way to overcome this crisis seems to be a global mobilization, an energy revolution. Turkey's signing of the Paris Climate Agreement is not only an important pioneering step but also means a framework that will accelerate the steps to be taken in the field of energy transformation simultaneously with the world. If you ask where to start, you should start in the industry, transportation, and housing sectors, where energy consumption is the highest. The expansion of solar and wind energy and electric vehicles will pave the way for a rapid transformation.

Implementation of policies to support carbon pricing and electrification all over the world in line with the net zero target; Raising the awareness of not only mega companies but also all segments of the value chain and the policy framework strongly supporting this guidance will enable us to reach energy efficiency scenarios faster. The implementation of measures that prioritize energy efficiency in transportation and residences in megacities where energy consumption is highest will also provide a great benefit in reducing energy costs and carbon emissions on a city scale. We express the strong and critical potential of the industry in energy efficiency on every occasion. In this area, which we see as one of the main elements of the energy efficiency mobilization, I believe that we will walk in a strong partnership with our public institutions, companies, sectoral associations, NGOs and consumers in the "Turkey's Energy Efficiency Outlook in Industry" project, which we will promote with CEEE on September 13.’

The Global Politics Forum

The Global Politics Forum has been established within TÜSİADin 2021 with the aim of approaching global-level political dynamics and foreign policy issues from an interdisciplinary perspective. Prof. Dr. Evren Balta, a faculty member at Özyeğin University, is the academic coordinator of the Global Politics Forum. Global Politics Forum has an Academic Advisory Board consisting of leading academics, diplomats, and journalists in our country in order to address global developments from a broad perspective. Within the scope of the forum's activities, meetings and webinars are organized, and reports are prepared.