Established to foster high-quality scientific cooperation with universities and research institutions in Germany, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation provides a number of support programs.

A briefing session will be hosted by President Nihat Berker from 11.00 am to 12.30 pm on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014 at the Cinema Hall to provide more information about Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Foundation support programs.

Representing AvH will be Dr. Nora Jennifer Schneevoigt (Programme Director Europe, Sponsorship and Network Department), and a large number of faculty members, postdoctoral researchers and doctorate students in particular are expected to attend.

Sabancı University faculty who have received Alexander von Humboldt Foundation support in the previous years:

AvH Research Award

Professor A. Nihat Berker 

AvH Georg Forster Research Award

Professor İsmail Çakmak

AvH Fellows

Dr. Hülya Adak 

Professor Hasan Mandal 

Dr. İbrahim Burç Mısırlıoğlu 

Dr. Cleva Ow-Yang 

Professor Cihan Kemal Saçlıoğlu 

Sabancı University and the leading German scientific center IHP-Microelectronics establish a first in Turkey: the Microelectronics – Joint Virtual Excellence Lab based on the “More-than-Moore” concept.

The Microelectronics Research Group of the Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and the leading German scientific center IHP-Microelectronics join their scientific experience and resources in a Microelectronics – Joint Virtual Excellence Lab based on the “More-than-Moore” concept.

The Microelectronics Research Group of the Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences has been undertaking successful cooperation projects with the leading German scientific center IHP-Microelectronics since 2008.  The two cutting-edge institutions now join their scientific experience and resources in a Microelectronics – Joint Virtual Excellence Lab based on the “More-than-Moore” concept.  This initiative is expected to take scientific studies to a new level that is novel to Turkey and rare abroad as well, leading to more effective studies both in Turkey and on a European level.  The motto of the More-than-Moore concept is to develop smaller, functional, economical, versatile and long-lasting electronic systems.  This has potential to contribute to many industries including communication, biomedicine, aerospace, aviation, security, automotive and robot-automation.

The lab was established at the signing ceremony and conference held at the SUNUM facility on the Sabancı University Tuzla campus on Thursday, October 16, 2014, hosted by Sabancı University President Professor Nihat Berker and attended by IHP-Microelectronics Rector Professor Bernd Tillack, the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and representatives from the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology, TÜBİTAK, and related sectors.

The research and development-focused cooperation of IHP-Microelectronics, a major technology provider to the leading wireless communication companies of the world, and Sabancı University is the first example of a pioneering model in Turkey.  The IHP - Sabancı University Joint Virtual Lab – Center of Excellence will enable easier access of other universities, research institutions and companies in Turkey to research and development in the field, serving to increase cooperation.

The projects in the Center of Excellence will be particularly useful to the electronics and communication, health (biomedical), satellite-aerospace, aviation, security, automotive, robot-automation and environmental industries.  The social benefit aspect of the cooperation and resulting projects will be safer, healthier, more economical and environmentally-friendly project outputs.

The objectives of the Sabancı University and IHP-Microelectronics Joint Virtual Excellence Lab are:

Extending the research capabilities by using a complementary research approach; strengthening the position for joint project applications; increasing international visibility; attracting excellent students and researchers for joint project work; and bringing in high level teaching (lectures, internships at IHP, and visiting scientists) based on advanced IHP and Sabancı’s research topics.

Supported by the technological infrastructure and knowhow of Sabancı University and IHP-Microelectronics, the ‘Center of Excellence’ will help to demonstrate successful German Turkish cooperation on scientific as well as political levels. 

"It is our goal is to strengthen the cooperation between Turkey and Germany in the fields of science and research. Therefore, I expressly welcome the special commitment of the IHP-Leibniz Institute for Innovative Microelectronics in Frankfurt (Oder) and the technological cooperation with its partner in Istanbul. I wish both partners every success in their cooperation," said the Federal Minister of Education and Research, Johanna Wanka. "This cooperation reflects the aim of the German-Turkish Year of Science 2014, namely the further expansion of joint activities in research, education and innovation with projects that point the way to the future."

IHP Scientific Director Professor Bernd Tillack said: “The Joint Lab is targeting on topics which offer us the opportunity to do research on a high level and deliver results with large social impact in both countries. For this research both partners bring in complementary research concepts. That evokes important synergy effects and creates a win-win situation. This will attract highly motivated young people for our research projects, another important advantage of working together with Sabancı University. We regularly have a group of students from Sabancı working in IHP for a couple of months every year. The Joint Lab with its very attractive and exciting research topics will help both of us to attract even more highly motivated students in the future.”

Sabancı University - IHP Microelectronics cooperation track record since 2007:

The cooperation between the two institutions started in 2007 based on mutual topics of interest defined under a Memorandum of Understanding.  The model of cooperation includes scientific exchange of ideas, scientist/student exchanges, and sharing facilities and services.  As a result of the cooperation, there are 4 Sabancı University graduates (BSc, MSc and PhD level) working as a full-time researhers at IHP.  Researchers from the two institutions make at least 3 joint publications per year.  Other outputs include more than 5 successfully completed, on-going or under evaluation sponsored projects from Turkish, German and EU funding Agencies/schemes, along with  more than 20 jointly-published journal and conference papers from these project outputs, more than 5 graduate students’ dissertations, over 15 undergraduate graduation  projects and internship opportunities for over 15 students.

About Sabancı University

Sabancı University was established in 1999 as Turkey’s first university without departments, and enables students to choose their diploma programs at the end of their first year.  Sabancı University is the first university to host the global leaders in sustainability and sign the United Nations Global Compact.  Sabancı University was at the top of the "University Innovation and Entrepreneurship Index" compiled by the Turkish Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology in 2012, 2013 and 2014, and is also the first Turkish private university to be included in the top 200 (182nd place) of the Times Higher Education (THE) 2014 Rankings.  Furthermore, Sabancı is among the top 500 of the QS 2014 World University Rankings. http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/

About the Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Microelectronics Research Group

Led by Professor Yaşar Gürbüz, the Sabancı University Microelectronics Research Group conducts 

research and development of CMOS and SiGe-BiCMOS based integrated devices, circuits and system solutions, MEMS, detectors/sensors & actuator solutions for wireless communication, biomedical and medicine, surveillance and security, aerospace and industrial applications. The Group also has micro and nanofabrication capabilities provided by Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM). http://microsystems.sabanciuniv.edu/

About IHP-Microelectronics

The IHP is an institute of the Leibniz Association and conducts research and development of silicon-based systems and ultra high-frequency circuits and technologies including new materials. It develops innovative solutions for application areas such as wireless and broadband communication, aerospace, biotechnology and medicine, automotive industry, security technology and industrial automation. The IHP employs approximately 300 people. It operates a pilot line for technological developments and the preparation of high-speed circuits with 0.13/0.25 µm BiCMOS technologies, located in a 1000 m² class 1 cleanroom. http://www.ihp-microelectronics.com/en/start.html 

By Melek Sarı

Sabancı University entered the Times Higher Education (THE) rankings at 182th position, becoming the Turkish university with the highest position upon first entry to the rankings, and was the only foundation university in Turkey to be included.

After only 15 academic years since its establishment, Sabancı University shares this prestigious position with three other Turkish universities: METU (85th), Boğaziçi (139th) and ITU (165th).

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings are the only global university performance tables to judge research-led universities across all their core missions - teaching, research, knowledge transfer and international outlook.

Sabancı University President Nihat Berker said: “Sabancı University is a leading global research university with interdisciplinary education that focuses on research and the individual, an environment of free academic choice and performance, and a globally-influential faculty.  Our students make free and informed choices with respect to their diploma programs, and go on to make great contributions to research and have international outreach after graduation.  Sabancı University continues to be the most innovative and entrepreneurial university in Turkey.  We focus our research on applied and strategic areas to uphold our principles of advancing knowledge, supporting students, and contributing to the development of the society.  Research in our university aims to enrich education programs on the one hand while contributing to social and economic development on the other.

“Sabancı University is the Turkish university that receives the most projects and funding per faculty member from Europe with almost TL 400,000 of research funding and 1.32 projects per faculty member.  We also have the highest number of incoming and outgoing exchange students to and from Europe.  Sabancı University ranked first one time and second two times on the Most Entrepreneurial and Innovative Universities Index issued by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology.

“Today, I am excited and proud to see Sabancı University among the top 200 on the Times Higher Education World University Rankings at its first appearance on the list – more so considering that we are only in our 15th academic year.  Our university has become an international point of reference with its vision, an institutional culture that is libertarian, participatory and respectful of diversity, an educational philosophy that is innovative, interdisciplinary and sensitive to the needs of all stakeholders, and creativity in research and education that enables the generation and dissemination of original knowledge that leads the way.

“In line with our mission of ‘Creating and Developing Together’ we develop internationally competent and confident individuals, enriched with the ability to reflect critically and independently, combined with a strong sense of social responsibility; and contribute to the development of science and technology on a global level, as well as disseminating the knowledge created to the benefit of the community.

“We are empowered by the international achievements of our university, such as inclusion in international rankings that prioritize research capabilities like the Times Higher Education list.  This is a result of our commitment to upholding our vision and mission since the day we were established.”

About the Times Higher Education rankings:

THE World University Rankings are considered to be the globally most respected rankings that provide the most comprehensive and balanced comparisons, which are trusted by students, academics, university leaders, industry and governments.

THE contacted over 10,000 academics globally with the world’s most trusted academic survey to compile the rankings.  Fifty million citations were reviewed.  Positions were assigned based on 13 performance indicators in five categories.  The THE rankings are the only global university performance tables to judge universities across all five of their core missions.
 
THE assesses successful universities based on 13 performance indicators in teaching, research, citations, industry income and international outlook.  Although all performance indicators are balanced, number of citations and international reputation are the two most important indicators that are considered.

According to THE, Turkey achieved considerable progress compared to last year, where there was only one university among the top 200.  The fact that four universities are in the top 200 this year is owed to the number of citations received by scientific articles.  Also worth noting is the motivation that is spurred by the increase in research and development investments in the country.

The 13 performance indicators used in THE World University Rankings are grouped into five areas:

•    Teaching: the learning environment (worth 30 per cent of the overall ranking score)
•    Research: volume, income and reputation (worth 30 per cent)
•    Citations: research influence (worth 30 per cent)
•    Industry income: innovation (worth 2.5 per cent)
•    International outlook: staff, students and research (worth 7.5 per cent).

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Demand Driven Institute (DDI) Turkish representative NOVACES International Yönetim Danışmanlığı will organize a “Certified Demand Driven Planner” (CDDP) training program on October 14th and 15th in association with Sabancı University and ISCEA (The International Supply Chain Education Alliance) to offer Demand Driven Materials Requirements Planning training in Turkey for the first time.

DDMRP is a formal planning and execution method designed to correct the inadequacies and inappropriate rules of conventional Materials Requirements Planning (MRP) given today's more volatile, complex and service-oriented supply and manufacturing scenarios.  The method was defined for the first time in Carol Ptak and Chad Smith’s Orlicky’s Material  Requirements Planning (Mc Graw Hill -2011).

The implementation of DDMRP allows the following benefits simultaneously:
-    95% or better performance in levels of service
-    25% to 40% reduction in inventory levels
-    Up to 80% reduction in delivery times

The training will be delivered by ISCEA CDDP Program Director Chad Smith.
For details:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/certified-demand-driven-planner-cddp-traini...

About NOVACES International Yönetim Danışmanlığı:
The company was founded in affiliation with the founders of the US-based management consultancy company NOVACES LLC in 2014.  Located in Istanbul, the company provides services to public and private institutions on Demand Driven Materials Requirements Planning (DDMRP), Critical Chain Project Management (CCPM) and Focused Performance Management (System-CPI).  The company is the Turkish representative of the Demand Driven Institute.  For more information about NOVACES International, please visit.

About the Demand Driven Institute:
The Demand Driven Institute (DDI) was founded in 2011 by Carol Ptak and Chad Smith, co-authors of Orlicky’s Material Requirements Planning, Third Revised Edition.  For more information, please visit www.demanddriveninstitute.com

About ISCEA:
With over 120,000 members and organizations in 24 countries, ISCEA is the global leader in Supply Chain training and certification.  ISCEA develops internationally recognized certification programs and members of ISCEA work in the supply chains of Global2000 companies.  For more information please visit www.iscea.net

Since 2005, SGM has been livening up the campus with regular events in two seasons of October-November-December and March-April-May, and opens its curtains for the first time this year with a concert by Teoman with songs from his new hit album "Yavaş Yavaş."

Also in October are performances by the Talimane Theater, Çolpan İlhan-Sadri Alışık Theater and Tiyatro Kedi as well as a play performed by the Sabancı University Drama Club.

Tickets will be available on all Biletix outlets starting on September 30th.

** Sabancı University members can purchase tickets at reduced prices from the SGM Ticket Office at the university center by showing their university IDs.

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For further information: 0216 483 90 000216 483 90 00

Box office: 0216 483 36 50

CDP Turkey Project Manager Mirhan Köroğlu Göğüş directed the Carbon and Water Management section of the Green Business Conference held on September 23rd and 24th, 2014 at the Raffles Hotel.

The section took place on the first day of the Green Business Conference and started with a presentation by Tuba Seyyah of the Office of Climate and Air Management of the Ministry of Environment and Urban Planning on “New Regulations Concerning the Carbon Emissions of Businesses.”  Following this was Bureau Veritas UK, Sustainability Services BU Manager Flavio Gomez on “The Development of EU-ETS and Issues Faced by Companies in the Transition to MRV.”

The section included a panel discussion on “Preparations for the New Regulations Concerning Carbon Emissions” moderated by Çağla Balcı of Rüzgar Consultancy.  Speakers were Eczacıbaşı Vitra Tiles Quality Assurance Manager Metin Enbiyaoğlu, İzmir Steelworks Environment and SHE Leader Funda Apa Aslan and Cellulose and Paper Industry Foundation Advisor Sedef Zaimoğlu.

Speaking after the panel was Water Politics Expert and Hydropolitics Academy President Dursun Yıldız on “Turkey and the Change in Water Management.” The panel discussion on “A New Era in Carbon Emissions for Businesses: Best Practices” included representatives of various industries who gave information concerning the work undertaken by their companies.  Speakers were Akenerji Elektrik Üretim A.Ş. Vice President of Trade, Selim Güven; Erdemir Environmental Manager, Aygül Özsu; and Toyota Türkiye Pazarlama ve Satış A.Ş. Director of Sales, Selim Okutur.

Gökmen Argun, National Coordinator for the UNDP GEF Small Grant Program (SGP) gave a lecture titled “GEF Small Grant Program: Local Examples” and provided information about efforts in this area.

Finally, the session titled “Example Projects for Sustainable Carbon Management through the Collaboration of Businesses and NGOs” featured the Vice President of Projects, Training and Volunteers of the Aegean Forest Foundation.

Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences member Murat Germen’s work was exhibited at Photo Shanghai, the first international art fair in the Asia-Pacific region that focuses exclusively on photography.

Murat Germen'swork was exhibited by C.A.M. Galeri. Gallery Director Melek Gencer spoke on their decision to take part in the fair with Germen’s work only: “We have made good beginnings by introducing a Turkish artist whose work is relevant on a universal scale to Shanghai. The reactions we received from many countries regarding Murat Germen’s work motivated us.”

Murat Germen's exhibition pieces deal with pressing contemporary issues like environmental problems, population increase, urban transformation and public revolts. These common issues are depicted in Germen’s work as deconstructed and manipulated images.

Murat Germen, who is represented by three galleries internationally, said that the exhibition to follow what he calls “personalized documentaries” will deal with water, shortage, hydropower plants, and their ties to political power.

The European Enterprise Network Sabancı University team has been chosen to receive European Commission funding for the INNOVEEN Project, submitted for the INNOSUP Call opened as part of the H2020 Program.

INNOVEEN will be among the first H2020 projects of Sabancı University to be funded.

INNOVEEN was one of the two projects chosen for funding among five submissions in Turkey, and aims to improve the regional innovation ecosystem by developing the innovation management capabilities of small and medium businesses based in Istanbul.　 Specifically, the project is focused on two main activities. The first objective of the project is to help small and medium businesses that are included in the H2020 SMB Instrument Program of the European Commission manage their innovation projects effectively by enabling coaching services to these businesses. The project also aims to determine and act upon the improvement opportunities of small and medium businesses in innovation management for an ultimate goal of increasing the rate at which EU innovation funds are utilized. As part of the project, the European Enterprise Network Istanbul - Sabancı University Unit will provide these services to 39 businesses based in Istanbul.

Curated by Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences member Ayşe Gül Altınay and Işın Önol, the exhibition will be available for viewing at Depo until October 3^{rd, 2014.}

The feminist works of Turlish and foreign artists in the exhibition imagine memory as an element of resistance policies, and mobilizes memories and witnesses of violence throughout time and around the world by putting forward ways of remembering that are outside of the official approach in order to support the struggle for social difference.

The “Mobilizing Memory: Women Witnessing” exhibition held as part of the Mobilizing Memory for Action workshop organized by Sabancı University Gender and Women’s Studies Forum, Columbia Global Centers l Turkey, and Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference is available for viewing at Depo

Curated by Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences member Ayşe Gül Altınay and Işın Önol, the exhibition will remain open until October 3^{rd, 2014}. Artists in the exhibition include Gülçin Aksoy, Hera Büyüktaşçıyan, Silvina Der-Meguerditchian, Hakikat Adalet Hafıza Merkezi (Center for Truth, Justice and Memory), Gülsün Karamustafa, Susan Meiselas, Nar Photos (Serra Akcan, Fatma Çelik, Gülşin Ketenci, Aylin Kızıl, Serpil Polat), Lorie Novak, Emine Gözde Sevim, and Aylin Tekiner.

The feminist art work displayed in this exhibit imagines memory as part of a larger politics of resistance. It mobilizes memories of past and present violence precisely to create the conditions and the motivations for social change. Bringing together women artists many of whom are themselves direct witnesses to oppression and terror, the exhibit also reveals moments of resilience, resistance, and creative survival. The artists gathered here use memory in innovative ways. They foreground unofficial acts of witness and forms of commemoration--embodied practices, performances, photography, testimony, street actions—that provide alternative histories and different political imaginaries than do official archives, memorials, museums, and state commemorations. They make visible not only violent crimes and their gendered dimensions, but also the intimate texture of lives and communities that have survived or are fighting to survive immense destruction.

Some questions that the exhibited works discuss are: What is the role of witnessing in practices of resistance: resistance to enforced silence and forgetting, to state power, and to inaction? What role do the arts play in combating the erasure of past violence from current memory and in creating new visions and new histories for future generations? In particular, what unique strategies have women devised to reveal and redress the violence directed at woman and at other disempowered social groups?

For more information about the project and events:
^{http://globalcenters.columbia.edu/istanbul/}

Exhibition catalog:　^{http://socialdifference.columbia.edu/publications/mobilizing-memory-women-witnessing-exhibition-catalogue/}

According to Bloomberg Businessweek’s “Favorite Universities 2014” survey, Sabancı University is Turkey’s favorite university.

For this year’s “Favorite Universities” survey, 15,700 students from 89 universities gave responses.

The model developed by Realta Consultancy measures the satisfaction of students with their universities.

The survey contains 56 questions on Faculty, Learning Resources, Courses, Quality of Education, Personal Development, Social Environment, and Building and Amenities. More than 300 Sabancı University students received online surveys between January and May 2014. According to overall results, Sabancı University took first place among all universities in Turkey.

Sabancı University scored the strongest in Learning Resources, leaving behind all public and private universities. Other reasons that led students to choose Sabancı University were “quality of education,” “ability to change programs” and “reputation.”

Sabancı University students gave highest scores to “learning resources and environment,” “academic support” and “personal development.” In overall satisfaction, Sabancı University students scored their institution 4.70 out of a possible maximum score of 5. The average of this score for private universities was 3.62.

Click here to read the July 6, 2014 issue of the Bloomberg Businessweek magazine for the complete survey.