IPC Researcher Auveen Woods and IPC Intern Nihal Kayalı's report, "Engaging Syrian Communities: The Role of Local Government in Istanbul," was published.

The human effects of the Syrian crisis are largely concentrated in urban areas, with an estimated 90 percent of refugees in Turkey living in cities or towns rather than camps. Local governments are responsible for providing a number of services in their areas and often confront the challenges posed by these refugees. However, their responses differ greatly. This report highlights some of the ways in which the 39 municipalities in Istanbul have responded to the influx of refugees and incorporates information garnered from the authors' correspondence with Istanbul belediye and kaymakamlık offices.

Please click here for the report.

Dear Students,

Detailed information of Nanyang Technological University Marine Research PhD Scholarship is given below.

(1) Maritime Economics/ Shipping Asset Management

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master Degree with very good academic results in a relevant discipline from a reputable university.
• Academic and/or practical experience in business analytics, financial management, asset management, investment appraisal/project finance or shipping market research (at least one of these).
• Highly motivated and research oriented.
• Fluent verbal and written communications in English; good GRE and TOEFL or IELTS scores if your first language is not English.
• Financial literacy and good use of fundamental techniques/instruments such as econometric analysis, cash flow analysis, input-output analysis, time series forecasting (at least one of these).

(2) Decision Support Systems/ Operations Research/ Computer Intelligence in Maritime Economics and Finance

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree or Master Degree with very good academic results in a relevant discipline from a reputable university.
• Academic and/or practical experience in shipping business analytics, shipping market analysis, marine terminal operations, port performance assessment, among others (at least one of these).
• Highly motivated and research oriented.
• Fluent verbal and written communications in English; good GRE and TOEFL or IELTS scores if your first language is not English.
• Good use of fundamental techniques/instruments such as spreadsheet modeling (e.g. MS Excel), optimization algorithms, programming languages (e.g. C++, Python), MATLAB, Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks, among others (at least one of them).

Stipend and allowances: 

• Full support of tuition fees
• Monthly stipend of S$2,000 per month (S$2,500 after the qualifying examination)
• Conference allowance

Qualification
During the first year, you will be expected to take relevant courses and to work towards passing the qualifying examination. In the event that this qualification is not met, there will be no conversion to a Master’s degree for the awardees.

Closing Date
Applications are open until the positions are filled. Only short-listed candidates will be notified.

Contact:
Qualified applicants are invited to email their CV and supporting documents to:
Dr. Okan Duru
Email: okanduru@ntu.edu.sg

For more information:
http://www.cee.ntu.edu.sg/Programmes/graduate/research/Pages/Overview.aspx

http://business.academickeys.com/job/ufxq0alk/PhD_Scholarship_in_Maritime_Studies 

"The 18th European Mediterranean Young Artists Biennale, Turkish Selection"

The first exhibition of the year at Kasa Galeri consists of the works of Berna Tonyalı and Akın Güreş, who were chosen to represent Turkey in the 18th European Mediterranean Young Artists Biennale.

The Turkish participants of the Biennale are chosen by a commission set up by Sabancı University. The 18th Biennale will be held in Tirana, Albania from May 4th to May 9th. The event will include more than 300 artists including Berna Tonyalı and Akın Güreş from Turkey. Before the Biennale, the works of the artists will be on display at Sabancı University KASA Galeri from February 1 to March 10.

Berna Tonyalı (1983, Trabzon) is a graduate of Space and Astrophysics from the Ankara University Faculty of Science and Engineering. Since 2011, Tonyalı has been involved in interdisciplinary research and creation of art, photography and video installations. Akın Güreş (1988, Adaklı) graduated from the Art Department of Marmara University in 2010. Güreş has been a master's student in the Graphic Design program at Arel University since 2015. Akın Güreş focuses on the emotions exuded by previously occupied and abandoned areas and structures where people become most cognizant of their personal histories.

 Sabancı University KASA Galeri

18th European Mediterranean Young Artists Biennale, Turkish Selection

February 1 - March 10, 2017

Sabancı Üniversitesi Minerva Palas, Bankalar Cad. No:2 Karaköy    

The theme for the 2017 edition of the annual Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards given by Sabancı University is "Europeans with Legacies from Turkey in Everyday Life." The deadline for submission has been extended to February 1, 2017.

The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award involves a Jury Prize that will be awarded to an individual who has made distinguished contributions on the above-mentioned theme. In addition to the Jury Prize, Essay Awards will be given to three researchers under 45 years of age. An independent and international jury will select the Essay Award and Jury Prize awardees.

Award Theme
Labor migration from Turkey to major European capitals began in the 1960s through bilateral agreements. This initial wave of labor migration was soon followed by family reunifications. -The migrants and their families who arrived in European cities were initially referred to as "guestworkers" signalling their temporary and foreigner status. A steady increase in the numbers of guestworkers and their families in Europe eventually led to the adoption of a shift from a temporary to a permanent discourse. Such a shift has nowhere been better expressed than in the words of Max Frisch who famously said: “We have summoned a work force, but it is people who are coming”  (Man hat Arbeitskräfte gerufen, und es kommen Menschen). By the end of the twentieth century, the more widely used concepts were "Euro-Turks," "Turkish Germans," as well as "Euro-Muslims" who were increasingly second and third generation European borns with legacies from Turkey, fully imbedded and quite effective in their European settings but cognizant of strong family, cultural heritage, and religious ties in Turkey. These population flows have led to the questioning of the convergence between nationality and citizenship which had long been a distinguishing feature of modern politics. It has led to the creation of new lives, interactions, conflicts as well as different modes of coexistence. Daily encounters of cultural and religious differences, while enriching the everyday lives of ordinary people have simultaneously produced conflicts that shaped the contours of the main political cleavages in Europe today.

Papers that highlight the multiple aspects of such encounters constitute the core of this year's award theme.

About the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award:
•    All entries, which may be coauthored, must be new and original works, not published previously in any form.
•    Essays must be of the format and size of a regular academic journal article (25 to 35 pages, in double-space format, including references).
•    An abstract of 500 words embedded into the original essay and a short CV of the author(s) are required.
•    Entries must be submitted in English, in the form of a Word document to the following address: award.sabanciuniv.edu
•    Essay Awards will be given to three researchers under 45 years of age. This category includes 10,000 USD for each of the three award-winning essays selected by an independent and international jury from among submitted essays.
•    The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award involves a Jury Prize of USD 25,000 that will be awarded to an individual who has made distinguished contributions on the above-mentioned theme. The same jury will select the Jury Prize awardee.
•    More information: award.sabanciuniv.edu

The Istanbul Policy Center-Sabancı University-Stiftung Mercator Initiative invites academics, journalists, and professionals to apply for the Mercator-IPC Fellowship Program. The program is based on the premise that the acquisition of knowledge and the exchange of people and ideas are preconditions for meeting the challenges of a globalized world.

Mercator-IPC Fellows work at Istanbul Policy Center (IPC), an independent policy research institute with global outreach located in the center of Istanbul. IPC’s mission is to foster academic research and its application to policy making. The Center is firmly committed to providing decision makers, opinion leaders, academics, and the general public with innovative and objective analyses of key domestic and foreign policy issues.

IPC offers Mercator-IPC Fellows access to a broad network of academics, civil society activists, and decision makers, as well as a unique platform for sound academic research to shape hands-on policy work. Fellows benefit from Sabancı University’s exceptional intellectual capital and vast reserves of scientific knowledge.

In the 2017/18 round, Mercator-IPC Fellowships will be available to outstanding academics, journalists, and professionals with significant work experience in one of two thematic areas:

- EU/German-Turkish relations

- Climate change

The fellows will be expected to work on academic or practical projects at IPC. A Master’s degree (or equivalent) is required for this position, but a PhD degree is strongly preferred. Applicants without a PhD degree will only be accepted if their work experience and expertise meet the program requirements to the jury’s satisfaction. Projects that focus on the German-Turkish nexus are likewise preferred. Applicants cannot apply for fellowships to fund their PhD dissertations.

The deadline for applications is April 3, 2017. The 2017/18 fellowship begins on September 4, 2017.

Please send your completed applications by email to Mercator-IPC Fellowship Coordinator Ms. Cigdem Tongal (see below for contact details). Feel free to share this information with your friends, colleagues, and students. For full details, see the Mercator-IPC Fellowship Program guidelines at http://ipc.sabanciuniv.edu/about_fellowship/?lang=en

With kind regards,

Prof. Dr. Fuat Keyman

Istanbul Policy Center, Director

For further questions please contact:

Çiğdem Tongal, Mercator-IPC Fellowship Coordinator

Email: cigdemtongal@sabanciuniv.edu

Tel.: 90 (0) 212 292 49 39 ext. 1418

or

Gülcihan Çiğdem Okan, Mercator-IPC Fellowship Program Officer

Email: gcigdem@sabanciuniv.edu

Tel:   90 (0) 212 292 49 39 ext. 1433

January 17th ELAE result code explanations are as follows:

SL (Satisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have received the required grade or above in the January 17th ELAE and who have gained the right to start their faculty studies as Spring (irregular) Freshman in the 2016-2017 Spring Semester.

EL: (Exempt from the ELAE): indicates students who are exempt from the January 17th ELAE. These students have already gained the right to start their faculty courses in the 2016-2017 Spring Semester.

UL (Unsatisfactory in the ELAE): indicates students who have not been able to obtain the required grade in the ELAE.

NA (Non-attendance): indicates students who did not attend the exam and is equivalent to a “UL” grade.

Grade bands are as below:

Postgraduate candidates who have taken the January 17th ELAE will be informed of their results by their faculties.

A Placement Exam will be given to inactive/prepared outside students who want to continue at FDY on the 23th of January at 9 a.m. They should contact the SL Directorate on the 19th of January by 5 p.m. latest.

Please see the link for your ELAE results.

We wish you success in your studies,

The School of Languages Directorate

Alex Wong and Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design students take part in the Boston Festival

An animated film made by Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences member Alex Wong and a team of Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design students has been accepted to the Boston International Film Festival. 

"AlieNation - Radio Boy" was made by FASS Visual Arts and Visual Communication Design students Alicem Batmansuyu, Arda İnceoğlu, Ayşe Aydoğan, Defne Kayserilioğlu, Gülşah Cansever, Muhammed Muvaffak Onus, Meha Shahid, Pelin Doğrul and Pelin Maravent, and was directed by their professor Alex Wong.

The festival will be held between March 9th and 12th, featuring 28 independent films from the US to Israel, China, Palestine, and the Philippines. Alex Wong and his students' film "AlieNation - Radio Boy" will be screened on March 10. In addition to Radio Boy, there are three competitors in the animated film category from the US, New Zealand and Cyprus. Seeking to draw attention to the work of filmmakers around the world, the Boston International Film Festival's motto is "the lens of a filmmaker is the best witness to the state of humanity."

Synopsis:
AlieNation is a short film depicting radical and absurd relationship between different form of beings in a distance planet.  Nevertheless, being bullied and cast off for being different happens in every corner of the world...even in far-far away planets in the galaxy. Alienation attitude is intolerable as we condemn it as an improper and bigoted conduct. Try to imagine yourself being such different in physical appearance that the sight of you makes everyone around you cringe, ignore and make fun of you. This is the tragic case of Radio boy.

Radio boy is a strange, mechanical creature created into an alien world far away from Earth. This planet and its inhabitants, the AlieNation, are bizarre fictional creatures. They are composed of organic and peculiar forms, like a pair of lungs with feet, or a creature with a huge tongue as his face. To these creatures, the mechanic form of the Radio boy is completely alien. After Radio boy is created as the result of an accident in the factory, Radio boy finds himself hard to fit into the world of the AlieNation. After a series of unfortunate events, Radio boy discovers his one ability that truly amazes everyone around him is his power to receive and play music in a planet that is without melody. Nonetheless everything return to the original state once Radio boy loses his ability.

Click to watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zq5vqUoEDVw

The TÜBİTAK Scientific and Technological Research Support Program (1001) to encourage projects on new knowledge generation, scientific advances and solutions to technological problems decided to support 10 projects by Sabancı University faculty and researchers for the first term of 2016.

Projects supported for the first term of 2016 within the TÜBİTAK Program to Support Scientific and Technological Research Projects (1001)

IPM Director and FASS Faculty Member Dr. Fuat Keyman, “Making Peace Process Sustainable: The Social Acceptance of the Peace Process in the Post-Conflict Period”

FASS Faculty Member Dr. Tülay Artan, “The 18th Century Production and Dissemination of Knowledge in the Ottoman Empire: Manuscript Collections and Collectors”

SOM Dean and Faculty Member Dr. Füsun Ülengin, “An Analysis of the Service Quality and Efficiency Metrics at Emergency Units of Hospitals”

FENS Faculty Member Dr. Burç Mısırlıoğlu, “Development of a Non-Destructive and Ultrafast Read-Out Multilayer Ferroelectric Memory”

FENS Faculty Member Dr. Canan Atılgan, “Mapping the Free Energy Surface of Folded Proteins via “Computational Force Microscopy”

FENS Faculty Member Dr. Emrah Kalemci, “Developing Original Space-Born X-Ray Detector Systems Using National Resources and Know-How”

FENS Faculty Member Dr. Gözde İnce, “Development and Fabrication of Ferroelectric Polymer Thin Films with Multilayers and Gradient Compositions for Improved Control of their Dielectric Properties”

FENS Faculty Member Dr. Müjdat Çetin, “Adaptive Brain-Computer Interfaces with Inference and Exploitation of Sustained Attention”

FENS Faculty Member Dr. Serhat Yeşilyurt, “Modeling and Experiments on the Effects of Ultrasound Acoustic Waves on Micro Swimming Robots”

FENS Faculty Member Dr. Yasemin Şengül Tezel, “Mathematical Analysis of A New Viscoelastic Model with Limited Strain”  

The Sabancı University Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) sponsored by Akbank held a panel discussion of “A Review of the Economy in 2016 and Outlook for 2017”.

The Sabancı University Center of Excellence in Finance (CEF) established with the founding sponsorship of Akbank to achieve excellence in finance held a panel discussion on Friday, December 23, 2016 at the Sabancı Center.

Titled “A Review of the Economy in 2016 and Outlook for 2017”, the panel was moderated by Akbank Chief Economist Fatma Melek. Panelists were Central Bank Chief Economist Hakan Kara, Yapı Kredi Bank Chief Economist Cevdet Akçay and İş Yatırım Research Director Serhat Gürleyen.

The first part of the panel focused on the global economic outlook and Turkey.  It was stated that risk mitigation was still in effect particularly in developed companies, causing prolonged reluctance in investment decisions, which, coupled with the fall in commodity prices, dealt a significant blow to the global trade of investment goods and raw materials.

Panelists explained that the instability in economic policies and the rise of expansionist policies led to a rise in long-term interests in the US and affected emerging countries due to unpredictable capital movements, interest and currency rates. The potential rise in risk-free interest rates may bring a tightening of financial conditions in developing countries.

The panelists also discussed the steps to be taken to boost private investments and the investment environment in Turkey, possible changes in foreign trade due to global as well as local/industry dynamics, to raise the value of Turkish export items, and the sources of growth in savings.

In the second part of the panel, Central Bank Chief Economist Hakan Kara said that despite shocks of various intensities during the inflation targeting period, inflation was kept limited to single-digit figures, but price stability was yet to be achieved. Kara said that recent experience showed that collaborated efforts were needed to ensure permanent price stability at a lower cost. Hakan Kara concluded, “The Central Bank will work in close cooperation with all stakeholders to promote awareness of structural issues that surface in fighting inflation, and support the technical infrastructure needed to overcome this problem."

In the third section, panelists discussed growth projections and possible growth composition for Turkey in 2017, and the key macroeconomic risk parameters that required monitoring.

İş Yatırım Research Director Serhat Gürleyen stated their expectation that the Turkish economy would grow by 3% in 2017, mostly fueled by internal demand despite the global rise in dollar and interest rates. Gürleyen said that the key driver of growth would be bank loans and that banks were resilient enough to carry Turkey into the future with their strong capital and robust balance sheets. Serhat Gürleyen explained that the call of the President of the Republic to use the lira in savings helped to reduce the weight of the dollar in savings accounts, continuing "However, companies in sectors other than finance have 210 billion dollars of open positions and portfolio exits are common, so there is upwards pressure on the dollar." Serhat Gürleyen said, “Due to the devaluation of the lira, rise in oil prices and the pressure of a 30% increase in minimum wage on collective bargaining agreements, we estimate that inflation in 2017 will increase by 150 base points to 9.0%."

SABANCI UNIVERSITY 

GRADUATE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES

GRADUATE PROGRAMS

2017 – 2018 FALL EARLY APPLICATIONS

The following programs leading to MA and PhD degrees are accepting early applications for 2017-2018 academic year Fall semester. Contact names for each program have been provided for academic inquiries only. For administrative or procedure related questions, please contact Student Resources Office.

Economics (MA/PhD) www

Contact: Abdurrahman Aydemir, (216) 483 93 44, aaydemir@sabanciuniv.edu

Turkish Studies (MA) www

Contact: Ayşe Özil, (216) 483 92 88, ayseozil@sabanciuniv.edu
 

Applicants must have completed their previous degree programs by September 5, 2017, at latest.

Admission Requirements

Admission Requirements for Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

IMPORTANT WARNING: All REQUIRED documents must be submitted during applications. Applications with incomplete documentation will not be taken into consideration. RECOMMENDED documents are not obligatory, but will be influential in the review process. (Please see the table for required and recommended documents from the link above.)

• The applicant must submit ALES, e-ALES, GRE or GAT result during application. Applications without a valid exam result will not be taken into consideration.
• Candidates are required to submit their English proficiency exam scores (TOEFL IBT, e-YDS, YDS, KPDS, ÜDS, PTE Academic, CAE or CPE) during the application. Applicants who are unable to provide a valid English Proficiency Exam score can only be admitted to graduate study upon obtaining a satisfactory grade in Sabancı University English Language Assessment Exam (ELAE) offered in early June. Those candidates who fail to attend or get a satisfactory grade in ELAE exam are obliged to attend and successfully complete English Language Preparation course(s) in order to enroll in a graduate program. Scholarships do not apply to the English Language Preparation courses.

ELAE exam is not substituted for language exam in PhD applications. For PhD candidates exam results should be submitted during application; applications without these documents will not be taken into consideration.

Graduates of Sabancı University are exempt from submitting an English Proficiency Exam score provided that they apply within two years of their graduation. For PhD applications, SU graduates are required to submit language certificate as well.

Financial Support

A limited number of scholarships based on academic achievement are available in the form of partial or full tuition waivers and/or stipends.

Click for SU Graduate Scholarships.

Click for Graduate Funding, Other Opportunities and Awards

Please note that those candidates who fail to submit a sufficient English proficiency exam score and thus attend the course of English Language Preparation will receive no scholarship until they successfully complete the course.

Deadline

February 3rd, 2017 is the deadline for the early applications.

Applicants may be invited for written exams and/or interviews via e-mail. All written exams and interviews are held in English. For Turkish and international applicants who are abroad and unable to attend written exams and/or interviews, will be interviewed through Skype.

The Graduate Admissions Calendar

 Economics (MA/PhD)

 Interview* : TBA

 Turkish Studies (MA)

  Interview* : TBA

 * Candidates are going to be invited via e-mail for the interview.

Applications:

Online applications are accepted via http://admission.sabanciuniv.edu/ . Application documents (official exam results, transcript, etc.) should be uploaded on the online system and application packages must be submitted either in person or post by mail to the address below. Please note that print-out of the completed application form should also be added to the application package. The packages sent via mail must arrive at the department by the application deadline. Applications sent via e-mail are not accepted.

Warning! All the application documents become property of Sabancı University. It is suggested to keep the original reports of TOEFL, GRE and ALES scores, and apply with the copies of those test scores. But please note that the originals must be produced at the time of registration to Sabancı University.

Student Resources Office
Sabancı University, Orhanlı
34956, Tuzla/ İstanbul-Turkey
www.sabanciuniv.edu
Phone: +90 (216) 483 9093
Facsimile: +90 (216) 483 90 73
E-mail: studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu