Our university has embraced sustainability as one of its core values since its inception and strategy. The university sees it as its mission to serve as a pioneering higher education institution that strives to minimize its activities' adverse environmental, social, cultural, and economic effects. It leads society to a sustainable lifestyle. In line with this mission and value, Özyeğin University aims to create and share knowledge about, raise sustainability awareness, and contribute to this multi-disciplinary and transdisciplinary environment. For this purpose, while addressing sustainable development academically, Özyeğin University endeavored to develop a university model that fosters a sustainable lifestyle among all its participants and stakeholders.

Drawing from this goal, the university established the OzU-SP ‘Sustainability Platform’ as a comprehensive, multidisciplinary, multi-participant/stakeholder integrated model. The platform is intended to:

• Identify sustainability goals, perform reviews in line with these goals, and share the results with stakeholders,
• Conduct multi-disciplinary research on sustainability,
• Create a multi-disciplinary, sustainability-integrated education environment,
• Maintain campus sustainability, and
• Build coordinated networks made up of national and international faculty, university staff, students, public bodies, and the private sector in order to promote collaboration among these stakeholders.

The platform carries out its activities in accordance with OzU’s vision, mission, and code of ethics. Please see university policies.

You may follow OzU’s Sustainability Platform’s activities online, and you can contact us any time by email.