Blink Energy is the winner of PowerUp! Challenge’s Turkey Final which was organized in cooperation with EIT InnoEnergy and Sabancı University Inovent on April 14, 2020. The Startup will represent Turkey at the international Grand Final of PowerUp!
Blink Energygot selected as Startup of the Year in Turkey in the country final of PowerUp! Startup Competiton organized in cooperation with EIT InnoEnergy and Sabancı University Inovent on April 14, 2020. Thecompetition was launched in January to find the most innovative startups, scale-ups and SME-s in Central Eastern Europe. Coming from 24 countries, out of a record number of 425 applications 362 startups qualified for participating in the tournament. In Turkey 11 startups made a run for the national title.
Blink Energy was founded to solve icing problem in power transmission lines. The company has designed a product called Plectron which uses solar energy and stops icing on power transmission lines by creating vibration.
National winners of the competition will run for the main awards in the international Grand Final, with financial prizes up to €65.000, the title of CEE Start-up of the Year, and valuable offerings from key partners like Amazon Web Services, Revolut or the SpeedUp Group. The initiative is also a way to secure millions of euros in investments and become part of EIT InnoEnergy’s network that offers money, know-how and an extended network of trusted partners to help businesses thrive and become successful globally.
Decision about the timing and venue of the international Grand Final will be made later depending on when restrictions, imposed by governments, are revoked in the region.
More information about the competition is available at:
Equipped with the appropriate professional set-up, knowledge base and infrastructure for in-vitro diagnostic kits, Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) puts its resources at the service of private and public kit developers and antibody/biological agent producers who are actively involved in the combat against COVID-19.
SUNUM announced on its website and social media accounts that, with its national research infrastructure and all its strategic stakeholders, it is ready for all kinds of collaboration in the combat against COVID-19.
Within the scope of its ongoing NANOSIS project, SUNUM is planning studies focused on simple, fast and affordable diagnostic testing for infectious diseases omit:”To develop nanotechnology based components, systems and original products for fast and economically feasible detection and tracing solutions for the health sector”. For this purpose, it has created a virtual collaboration platform with its 24 strategic partners ranging from preventive medical actions such as diagnostic kits, biosensors and home care to the need for molecular methods for the detection of agents harmful to human health.
Based on the fact that that the in-vitro kits originally designed for cancer diagnostics can be modified for use in the diagnosis of Covid-19 as part of the NANOSIS project, SUNUM officials stated that all entities and institutions that lack the necessary equipment for physicochemical and biological tests and production are invited to collaborate and use their infrastructure.
Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM)
Established in 2011 as a joint investment project by the Turkish Ministry of Development and Sabancı Foundation, SUNUM conducts interdisciplinary research in several fields including advanced materials, nano-biotechnology, nano-medicine, nano-electronics, nano-optics, micro-nano-fluids, micro-nano-electromechanical systems, renewable energy systems, 3D printing, biosensors and biomedical applications, food safety, and wireless broadband communication technologies.
By creating the first Chair for Search, Sabancı University builds the academic framework for the study of search, a pioneering activity of the business community.
The Chair for Search, which will be led by School of Management faculty member Oğuz Babüroğlu, was introduced to the business community.
"In this new term, we have major breakthroughs in the pipeline."
The meeting was opened with speeches by the President of Sabancı University Yusuf Leblebici and the Chairperson of Sabancı University Board of Trustees Güler Sabancı. Yusuf Leblebici said that Sabancı University will make major breakthroughs in this new term. He said: "We will not be satisfied with ranking among the top universities in Turkey only, we will strive to be among the best in the world". Underlining that the Chair of Search in the field of Action Research is a step in this direction, Leblebicioğlu said that under the leadership of Oğuz Babüroğlu, the Chair for Search will be the driver for many breakthroughs by sharing its experiences with the academia, students and the business community.
"We created our first motto in a search conference"
Güler Sabancı underlined that Sabancı University is the first university ever to be created as the result of a search conference. She said that they coined the motto for the university "creating and developing together" in this first search conference.
Oğuz Babüroğlu introduced the Chair for Search and its objectives.
As he was introducing the Chair for Search, Mr. Babüroğlu started his speech by defining the concept of "search". He said that search is a paradigm, an action research approach, a methodology, and a participative consultation. He also added that "search" involves causality and a scientific approach. Emphasizing that search requires a collective effort, Babüroğlu expressed that search produces results by blending the existing singular wisdoms to obtain mechanisms for shared wisdom.
Also, touching upon how action research compares to operational research he said: "Action research is a more behavioral based, collaborative, face-to-face model". He said:" It captures reality with its dialog based approach and produces useful knowledge".
Babüroğlu added that search also offers consulting in strategy development, future scenarios, organizational development, innovation design, culture management, and sectoral cooperation as well as common interest formula design. Stating that there are academic projects based on their previous experiences, he said the Chair for Search is expected to accelerate the process for publishing them.
Planned to serve as a bridge between the business community and the university, the objectives of the Chair for Search include engaging postgraduate students in developing and supporting the academic aspect of action research projects in Turkey; empowering actively employed managers through an "industrial doctorate" program developed in cooperation with omit industry so that change can be backed by action research; collaborating with the faculty members in other departments of Sabancı University, who already employ this approach or are interested to do so, and obtaining their input in this postgraduate program; and developing effective cooperation with international institutions or scholars, who conduct action research. He underlined that their aim is to adopt an academic approach, which focuses on the generation of useful knowledge, as in the case of action research. He expressed that academia disciplines and positions the knowledge that is generated.
Mr. Babüroğlu informed the audience that a post-graduate program will be initiated through the Chair. He said that company employees and top management candidates can enroll in this program. Emphasizing that the business community will face a multi-dimensional and complex change in the future, he said: "We were looking for an academic program that can generate the knowledge needed for change management in government agencies, local authorities, private sector companies and omit NGOs. We believe that this will be a post-graduate level program built around a simultaneously running project in the field of action research.
Highlighting that they want to initiate an action research era in Turkey, Babüroğlu stated that this is also a change project, which intends to significantly improve the competency for change management in the community.
The doctorate program is intended for managers because its main purpose is to improve the capacity for cooperative reasoning through team work, and to develop environments for shared wisdom. He added that with its innovative and entrepreneurial genes, Sabancı University is pioneering this post-graduate program in the world. Stating that each student will participate in the doctorate program with a change project from his/her company, Babüroğlu listed the benefits for the enterprises:
The post-graduate program will ensure that companies base their change projects on academic knowledge on one hand and support the academic knowledge generation process on the other.
Top management candidates will acquire the competence to improve their reasoning capacity, to manage reasoning cooperatively and in a team, and to develop shared wisdom environments and programs.
It is going to help businesses train their future top managers, and strengthen their competence for Change Management.
Arduino is the most popular electronic prototyping platform. In this training, participants will learn the basics of Arduino and will be introduced C language that is customized for Arduino.
Participants will learn the following:
- Developing basic programming algorithm
- Variable declaration, loops, methods and control structures,
- Getting familiar with Arduino boards and Arduino simulation platform
Sakıp Sabancı Museum’s The Arts of The Book and Calligraphy Collection, and Painting Collection includes rare art works of the Ottoman and the Republican periods. Click to explore the link between these two successive collections.
The history of Ottoman Art constitutes a line extending from the arts of the book to the art of painting, which is also reflected in the selection of Sakıp Sabancı Museum’s collections.
From the 18th century onwards, the kıt’akoltuk panels were decorated with bouquets or vases of ample flowers. The calligrapher Şekerzade Mehmed (d. 1753), who worked in the first half of the century, taught calligraphy at the Palace during the reigns of Ahmed III (r. 1703-1730) and Mahmud I (r. 1730-1754). Because his father was a confectioner, he was known by the cognomen Şekerzade. Each sleeve of the kıt’a he wrote bears a naturalistic drawing of mixed bouquets executed by an accomplished painter of flowers, representing the taste of the period. These bouquets have thick and short stalks and each include a layered rose, a pink tulip, a two-colored viola, a branch of an unbloomed gillyflower and little blue chrysanthemums.
During the 19th century, these drawings of flowers on koltuk panels moved to canvases as the Ottoman painters had started painting still lifes of flowers in vases.
The Still Life with Flowers by Şeker Ahmed Paşa (d. 1907) in the Sakıp Sabancı Museum Collection will remind the viewer of the flower painting in Şekerzade’s kıta. Attributed the cognomen Şeker due to his mild and calm character, Ahmed Paşa had been sent by Sultan Abdülaziz (r. 1861-1876) to study art in Paris where he attended classes of Gustave Boulanger and Jean-Léon Gérôme. During his stay in the city, he also participated in Paris Salon exhibitions. Following his return to his homeland, he taught in military schools and held the first painting exhibitions in Istanbul. He assisted Osman Hamdi Bey in founding The Royal School of Fine Arts (Sanayi-i Nefise Mekteb-i Âli). As the assistant of Abdülaziz, he played a major part in building the palace art collection, which went on to become the core of the painting selection in the collection of the Directorate of National Palaces.
Şeker Ahmed Paşa’s Still Life with Flowers which bears the date 1903 and resembles one of the bouquet of flowers on Şekerzade Mehmed’s kıt’a, also displays influences of Dutch flower paintings, a tradition he had probably encountered at the Louvre Museum during his stay in Paris. Placed in a broad brown vase on a marble table, the bouquet of hyacinths, tulips and peonies, and the pale flowers and leaves in between, brings to mind the naturalistic style of the flower drawings decorating the kıt’a koltuk panels.
Sabancı University MBA program is a full-time program welcoming students without prior work experience and hands on training program offering Company Action Projects in top multinational and local companies in Turkey during their education.
Program offers an international environment in our class and exchange programs abroad during summer term.
Details about the program will shared on 25 April 2020, Saturday at 10:00 am (GMT+3) in the online information session.
A brief presentation on the MBA Admissions process and scholarship opportunities will be available to students from all around the world.
On the sixteenth anniversary of the passing of Sabancı University Honorary President Sakıp Sabancı, the winners of the “Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards” endowed in his honor were announced. “Economics and Turkey’s Future” was the topic selected for the awards this year, and the Jury Prize was awarded to Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, a researcher who studies the impacts of climate change on the global economy.
In her statement, Sabancı University’s Founding Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Güler Sabancı said: “As the world is facing a major challenge because of the coronavirus epidemic, we see once again that our guide should be science. With science and technology lighting our way, and with the spirit of solidarity, we will recover from this difficulty, together.”
Initiated by Sabancı University to honor the will of Sakıp Sabancı, who passed away in 2004, the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards has recognized ideas and scientists focusing on a wide array of topics ranging from inequality to income distribution, climate change to energy, traffic congestion to air pollution and transportation to housing. The winning essays in the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards organized around this year’s topic: “Economics and Turkey’s Future” have been announced, and the Jury Prize was awarded to Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, London School of Economics (LSE).
Sabancı University’s Founding Chairman of the Board of Trustees Güler Sabancı, in her statement regarding the subjectindicated that the Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards were an initiative in Turkey, being the first ever such awards and said: “The late Mr. Sabancı always encouraged international thinking. The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards make a remarkable contribution to Turkey’s international vision in social sciences.”
Güler Sabancı: “We will recover from this difficulty together”
Güler Sabancı continued her statement: “Every year, on April 10th we organize a ceremony to honor his precious memory, and to present the awards to the winners, but unfortunately, due to the extraordinary conditions, we are not able to hold a meeting this year. We are experiencing times, which make us grasp the wisdom behind the late Mr. Sabancı’s favorite motto, and the title of his last book ‘Health First’. As the world is facing a major challenge due to the coronavirus epidemic, we see once again that our guide should be science. Currently, we need shared reason, science and cooperation more than ever. As individuals are in social containment, the world should do the opposite and unite and collaborate more in order to cope with this problem together. To serve this very purpose, we have mobilized all the capabilities in our university. The solutions that have been developed in our university make the daily routine easier for healthcare professionals, who we are all very grateful to, and we are also supporting vaccine, serum and kit manufacturers in their efforts to develop new solutions by giving them access to the infrastructure in our centers such as Composite Technologies and Nanotechnology. With science and technology lighting our way, and with the spirit of solidarity, we will recover from this difficulty, together.”
“We need common solutions for our common problems”
Güler Sabancı emphasized that Sabancı University started out with the vision of becoming an international university, and thus it is now offering access to universal thinking to its student body through international exchange agreements with universities in more than 50 countries around the world. Güler Sabancı continued: “In a world where knowledge is the greatest asset and it can be shared almost at the speed of light, we see more clearly the need for scientists, who can develop solutions for our common problems. To this end, based on the international perspective that Mr. Sabancı always regarded as important, and enabled by the generous and courageous initiative of Dr.h.c. Dilek Sabancı and Sevil Sabancı, we have founded the Sakıp Sabancı Center for Turkish Studies at Columbia University in 2018, which is working to encourage more research on and a higher level of awareness about Turkey. On the other hand, we think it is also important to meet with scientists, who offer common solutions to the common problems in the world. I congratulate Professor Lord Nicholas Stern, a leader in his field, for receiving the Jury Prize. I also wish success to the essay award winners, young researchers, in their scientifically enlightened journey.
Next two decades will be very critical for the world
Expressing that he feels honored to receive such a special award previously given to very distinguished scientists like Joseph Nye and organized by Sabancı University which was founded by the great philanthropist Sakıp Sabancı, Professor Lord Stern said: “Climate change has been at the center of my work over the last two decades. Unmanaged climate change poses an immense threat to the future of humanity. On current trajectories, including those embodied in the Paris Agreement of 2015, within a century or so, we are headed for average global temperatures over 3 degrees centigrade above those at the end of the 19th century. With an increase of three degrees probably billions of people would have to move, that would likely result in more profound and severe social conflicts. It would reverse the gains in development we have made over the last half century. To stabilize temperatures, we have to go to zero carbon emissions as a world, and to stay at net zero levels within about 50 years. So, the next two decades will be absolutely critical.”
Emphasizing that the drive to net zero can be the most sustainable, inclusive, resilient growth story, Professor Lord Stern said: “This century will be full of discovery, innovation, investment and growth. It will give us cities, where we can move and breathe and be productive. To get there, we will require real leadership, strategy and inspiration. It will also require innovation and creativity, and it will require sound and imaginative finance, surely qualities shown by Sakıp Sabancı in great measure. Turkey is very vulnerable since it is located in southern Europe, but Turkey also has great assets. It has substantial wind and solar resources. And, Turkey, with its special geography and its profound culture, is a focal point for the world. So, we look in this great story for Turkey to be at center stage.”
Three essays from three countries
This year’s award winning essays are:
Jonathan D. Hall, University of Toronto “Can Tolling Help Everyone? Estimating Aggregate and Distributional Consequences of Congestion Pricing”,
Hans Koster, Vrije University, Amsterdam “The Welfare Effects of Greenbelt Policy: Evidence from England”, and
Nick Tsivanidis Berkeley University, California “Evaluating the Impact of Urban Transit Infrastructure: Evidence from Bogotá’s TransMilenio”.
2020 Jury
Led by Eren İnci, Vice Dean of Sabancı University Arts and Social Sciences Faculty, this year’s international awards jury panel was composed of Fuat Keyman, Vice President and Director of Istanbul Policy Center, Sabancı University, Özgür Kıbrıs Dean of Arts and Social Sciences Faculty, Sabancı University, Kemal Derviş Brookings Institute Senior Fellow and Sabancı University International Advisory Board Member, Professor Gilles Duranton University of Pennsylvania, Professor Robin Lindsey, UBC Sauder School of Business, and Professor Matthew Turner, Brown University.
About Lord Prof. Dr. Nicholas Stern
Professor Lord Nicholas Stern is the IG Patel Professor of Economics and Government, Chairman of the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment and Head of the India Observatory at the London School of Economics. He was the President of the British Academy, July 2013 – 2017, and was elected Fellow of the Royal Society in 2014. He was Chief Economist of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, 1994-1999, and Chief Economist and Senior Vice President at the World Bank, 2000-2003. He was knighted for services to economics in 2004, made a cross-bench life peer as Baron Stern of Brentford in 2007, and appointed Companion of Honour for services to economics, international relations and tackling climate change in 2017. He has published more than 15 books and 100 articles and his most recent book is “Why are We Waiting? The Logic, Urgency and Promise of Tackling Climate Change”.
The all-new M.Sc. in Business Analytics (Thesis) program, another first in Turkey by Sabancı University announced the deadlines for MscBA program. Deadline for early applications is 29th May 2020.
Enriching our program with rigorous courses in data analytics, modeling and optimization and decision analysis, the program provides 21-month full-time, thesis-based with scholarship opportunities.
For more information, you can join our information session which will be held on 4 th April, Saturday 01.00 pm (GMT+3) . Please click here for registration.
Application Deadlines*
Early Application Deadline: 29 May 2020
Final Application Deadline: 30 June 2020
*The extension of the deadlines is still under discussion with all programs. When it finalizes, we will officially announce it via our web site.
Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center (SU IMC) became one of the only six worldwide, and the first university center in Turkey with AS9100 certification.
AS9100 Certificate has critical importance in the international platform for institutions operating in the Aerospace and Defense Industry. SU IMC, which started its activities as of 2018, was audited in October 2019 and was approved by IAQG (International Aerospace Quality Group) in March 2020 as a result of a successful audit.
The aerospace industry requires intensive controls and methods to ensure reliability and safety. This AS9100 Rev D Certification achievement continues to provide our partners confidence that SU IMC has the quality processes and capabilities to solve complex engineering and manufacturing problems and fulfil the aerospace and defence industry needs.
SU IMC also has TS EN ISO / IEC 17025 Certificate, which is a laboratory accreditation certificate approved in February 2019.
