The Sustainability Platform is a multidisciplinary, multi-participant, comprehensive, and integrated model to present OzU’s commitment to partnerships and sustainability. The office offers an integrated model to manage sustainability initiatives of OzU such as encouraging crossdisciplinary and cross-faculty research on sustainability, designing, delivering, and promoting extracurricular activities related to SDGs and maintaining a sustainable campus.

Sustainability Talks - Inspiration Series | 2021 Spring Semester Program

The seminar series “Sustainability Talks” organized to raise awareness of complex problems our world is facing, continues as “Sustainability Conversations” in 2021 with a more interactive structure. “INSPIRATION” series of the “Sustainability Conversations”, aims to put the spotlight on the subjects that have become so interlaced in our daily lives. Over the course of the series, inspiring stories of people and institutions are shared with all our stakeholders, in particular our students. For example, the talks of Elibelinde Agriculture Founder Aslı Aksoy and Reflect Studio Design Team and Sustainability Team Leader Serra Türkün show that there are different alternatives to our highest consumption areas and there is another way of entrepreneurship that is more respectful both to the world and humanity. Mezitli Mayor Neşet Tarhan shared local governments’ participative and creative contributions to the issue areas of women empowerment, ecology, and access to clean food. İlhan Koçulu, cheesemaker and farmer from Boğatepe Environment and Life Association, talked about their communitybased empowerment experience which started in Boğatepe Village, Kars and became a source of inspiration for all of us with its outstanding local impact.