The 9^th Women Directors in Turkey Conference organized by Sabancı University Corporate Governance Forum will be held online at 16:00 on February 22, 2022.

Odile Renaud-Basso, the President of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, will be the keynote speaker, and Wiebke Schloemer, IFC Director for Turkey and Central Asia, will deliver the opening speech in the conference. The main theme of this year’s conference is “Transformative Power of Data and Reporting”.

Sabancı University

Graduate School of Social Sciences

Economics Graduate Programs

2022-2023 Fall Semester Early Applications

EARLY APPLICATION DEADLINE: April 1, 2022

Sabancı University Graduate School of Social Sciences is accepting early applications to Economics (MA/PhD) program for the Fall semester of 2022–2023 academic year.

How can I apply?

Candidates must submit an online application at the website below.

http://admission.sabanciuniv.edu

What are the rules and required documents for application?

Please click here for the rules and required documents for master programs application.

Please click here for the rules and required documents for doctorate programs application.

What are the scholarship opportunities?

Candidates may be given various kinds of scholarships based on merit. Please click here to view the scholarship opportunities for graduate programs at Sabancı University.

Application dates

• The early application deadline for Economics MA and PhD program is April 1, 2022.

What happens after I complete my application?

• Candidates shortlisted by the admissions jury of their respective program may be called in for the interview. Candidates will be notified of their interview times by email or telephone. Based on the conditions, interviews can be in-person or online on (TBA).

How can I get more information?

You may contact the following faculty member for academic issues and questions. You may contact Sabancı University Student Resources for more information regarding application and admission procedures.

• Student Resources
  • Telephone: (216) 483 93 61
  • Email: studentinfo@sabanciuniv.edu

• Economics (MA/PhD)
  • Asst. Prof. Remzi Kaygusuz, (216) 483 92 44, remzi.kaygusuz@sabanciuniv.edu

Beste İrem Köse, graduate student in Cultural Studies, has become the winner of the “Resistances to Gender Equality” competition in the EU GEARING Roles project, in which Sabancı University is the only participant from Turkey.

Winners of two prizes, namely the Essay Prize and the Research Prize, were selected.

Our student Beste İrem Köse was found deserving of first place among graduate students for her essay in which she focuses on movements in Eastern Europe and Turkey organized against gender equality and the ideologies underlying these movements. As an award winner, she is entitled to an all-expenses paid trip to Estonia to attend the GEARING Roles Conference on March 30, 2022.  

Beste İrem Köse shared her feelings about the award: “In an email sent by GazeteSU in October, I came across an announcement about the Resistances Essay Competition organized by the GEARING Roles. The announcement included an invitation to write an essay of a maximum of 1000 words about resistances to gender equality. On February 7, I received an email from the competition’s representative informing me that I had been chosen as the winner among graduate students. I was so happy and glad to learn about it. I am truly excited to attend the conference in Estonia”.

Beste İrem Köse currently continues to work on her thesis on HIV/AIDS activism with Ayşecan Terzioğlu, member of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, her advisor. 

We congratulate Beste İrem and wish her continued success.

Sabancı University provided training entitled “Transformative Technologies, Risks Shaping the Future, and Accessing the Right Information in Digital World” in the Creative Technologies Atelier in Küçükköy. Teachers and students from various schools in Ayvalık attended the training, which was organized during the semester break with the support of the Ayvalık District Directorate of National Education.

Sabancı University’s Küçükköy Creative Technologies Atelier in Ayvalık hosted an important event during the semester break. From January 31 to February 5, 2022, 25 students from Ayvalık Anatolian High School and Ayvalık Atatürk Anatolian High School, 25 students from Halis Komili Primary School, and 21 teachers from various schools in Ayvalık received training in the Creative Technologies Atelier in Küçükköy.

Emre Erol, Foundations Development Director, who coordinates the common courses that constitute the special education model of Sabancı University, Emine Süphan Bakkal, Duygu Karaoğlan Altop, faculty members from the Foundations Development Program, İlkem Kayıcan, instructor from the School of Languages, and Nihal Öztolan Erol, Researcher from Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center, delivered the training sessions which were realized with the support  of Carrefoursa, Enerjisa Energy, and Teknosa, the technology sponsor of Küçükköy. Students and teachers also had the opportunity to attend the training sessions online.

The main subjects covered in the training sessions included scientific accumulation behind the global warming and the climate change and risks for the future, basics of transformative technologies such as gene regulation and algorithms, potential risks and opportunities, and case verification in the intensive digital information environment of the day. In this framework, topics such as water stress, climate migration, and the impact of digital world on politics and identities were covered in the training sessions held with students and teachers. In addition, information was provided to students and teachers about soilless farming with demonstrations.

Established in 2019, the Küçükköy Creative Technologies Atelier of Sabancı University organizes technology-focused courses for the benefit of society observing children’s right to education and equality. The Creative Technologies Atelier hosts various projects to ensure that young people and women assume leading roles in education and in the future. Training activities in the Creative Technologies Atelier are carried out by faculty members and students of Sabancı University. Children in the 8-15 age group and women are prioritized for training.

Professor Yannis F. Missirlis from Biomechanics Lab. and Biomedical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering & Aeronautics Dept. of Patras University will be the guest of SUNUM with a seminar titled "Spatiotemporal aspects of intra and inter cellular communications". 

The seminar will be held in hybrid form on February 9 at 14:00 by İstanbul time and is open to all researchers.

For online participation http://otolab.sabanciuniv.edu/SUNUMActivityRegistrationForm

Korkut Kaan Tokgöz, member of Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS), has been selected as guest editor for a special issue of Micromachines journal published by MDPI, titled as “CMOS-MEMS Fabrication Technologies and Devices”.

For the special issue, Korkut Kaan Tokgöz will take part in peer review of articles, compilations and brief opinions written by researchers from centers in the field of CMOS-MEMS integration technologies, and he will work with another prominent researcher from Singapore.

The system will become close to submissions on 25 July 2022. More information about the special issue can be found using this link.

A Focus Group Workshop was held with the participation of city’s stakeholders in the framework of Konya Smart City Strategy and Roadmap Project. The project, owned by Konya Metropolis Municipality, is in progress with ASELSAN as the main contractor and Sabancı University takes part as solution provider with a large inter-diciplinary group of academics. Prof. Dr. Füsun Ülengin, faculty member at Sabanci University, is the academic coordinator of the project.

During the workshop which was held on 19-21 January at Konya Selçuklu Cultural Center, project stakeholders discussed different aspects of Konya as smart city in 17 separate sessions organized under the smart city headings defined by Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change. The workshop allowed the stakeholders to share and discuss their opinions and provide suggestions to make Konya a better and more livable city.

Dursun Yıldırım Bayar, Head of Smart Cities and Geographical Technologies Department of the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, managers and representatives of public and private institutions, NGOs and universities based in Konya participated in the 3-day workshop in which evaluations were made about the project.

Topics discussed during the sessions and resulting ideas and suggestions will be evaluated methodologically and will be presented in the form of a report in the scope of the project. The project’s expected completion date is September 2022.

A project to enhance supercapacitor technology to upgrade battery performance in hybrid and diesel vehicles under the partnership of Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM,) Istanbul Technical University (İTÜ) and TEMSA Skoda is entitled to support under TÜBİTAK 1702 Patent-Based Technology Transfer Support Program.

The project entitled “Use of High-Performance Supercapacitors with Mesostructured Gel Electrolytes in Automotive Applications” is entitled to support under the TÜBİTAK 1702 Patent-Based Technology Transfer Support Program (1702 Patent License 2021-2). With the TÜBİTAK 1702 support, Supercapacitor technology will be developed to upgrade battery performance in hybrid and diesel vehicles.

The project team is composed of Dr. Yurdanur Türker, full-time researcher at SUNUM, Dr. Koray Bahadır Dönmez, technical specialist at SUNUM, Prof. Dr. Seniha Güner, faculty member at İTÜ and part-time researcher at SUNUM, Prof. Dr. Nilgün Karatepe Yavuz, faculty member at İTÜ, and Mert Umut Özkaynak, PhD Student at İTÜ and Dep. Director, Responsible for Strategy and Business Development at SUNUM.

The book entitled “Elections and Public Opinion in Turkey: Through the Prism of the 2018 Elections", compiled by Ersin Kalaycıoğlu, Member of Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) together with Ali Çarkoğlu, faculty member from Koç University, with chapters by Özge Kemahlıoğlu and Mert Moral, members of FASS, has been published by Routledge in England.

The volume sheds light on the backsliding process of Turkish democratization from the early 2010's until 2018. In addition to historical contextualization, the book analyzes data collected through a nationally representative survey of Turkish voters during the 2018 elections and data available by the Supreme Election Board (YSK) in a pre-and post-election panel design.

A more centralized administration of elections that are directly under the control of the central government brought reliability of election results as well as the free and fair nature of the elections in question. Mobilization efforts of the parties, as well as the varying degree of influence of the economy, appear to have simultaneously influential over the vote choices. Yet another factor of potency in shaping the vote choices was the longer-term effects of ideology, conservative values, and hence the party identification.

Through the 2018 elections in Turkey, the book provides an excellent glimpse into the dynamics of Turkish politics, society and culture. Targeting students and scholars of Middle Eastern and North African politics, the book is a key resource for any readers interested in the political developments of Turkey, comparative politics, and voting behavior.

An online information session on Full Time MBA Program will be held on Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 18:30 pm (GMT+3). 

Sabancı University MBA program is a full-time program welcoming student without prior work experience and hands on training program offering Company Action Projects in top multinational and local companies in Turkey during their education.

The program provides work experience within its curriculum and it offers an international experience to its students with exchange programs that without paying any education fee abroad, only by covering the living expenses.

Please click here to for registration. 

For more information, you can send an e-mail to mba@sabanciuniv.edu