25/12/2012
Sabancı University Işık İnselbağ Chair Professor of Finance Özgür Demirtaş has been awarded 100.000 Euro Marie Curie Research grant.
The score given to Prof. Demirtaş by European Union Seventh Framework Program is the highest score Sabancı University School of Management has received to date. At the same time, Prof. Demirtaş is the only Turkish scholar who has been supported by Marie Curie Career Integration Grand program in the Economics sub-panel achieving the first place in Turkey in 2012.
Within the program scope, European referees evaluated project proposals in eight different panels and in the Economics Panel only seven projects supported among numerous applications from various countries. The content of the modeling of the Prof. Demisrtaş’s project proposes solutions for the financial crisis in the European Union.