Open science and open innovation were the focal points of the Open Science Summit of Turkey organized by Sabancı University, TÜBİTAK, Izmir Institute of Technology, Hacettepe University and Anadolu University Libraries Consortium (ANKOS).

"Open Science Summit 2018" was held on Monday, September 10 at Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı Museum the Seed to make an extensive review of the latest developments in open science and open innovation, discuss the implications of these developments on open access policies in Turkey and funding or support practices, and to help develop strategies regarding these issues.

The event was held with the attendance of Sabancı University Founding Board of Trustees Chair Güler SABANCI and Sabancı University President Zehra Sayers, with opening remarks by Sabancı University Vice President of Research and Development Şirin TEKİNAY, Izmir Institute of Technology Libraries and Documentation Division Director Gültekin GÜRDAL, Advisor to the President of Council for Higher Education (CHE) Sezer Şener KOMSUOĞLU, TÜBİTAK President Professor Hasan MANDAL, and Sabancı Holding CEO Mehmet GÖÇMEN.

Sabancı Holding CEO Mehmet GÖÇMEN approached the subject of open innovation from an industry perspective, and said: "The world is changing rapidly and multiple processes, some contradictory, some complementary, occur at the same time. Technological advances, access to data, and data-oriented business models threaten the conventional business models of the world. We live in an age when everyone can compete against anyone, cement companies sell insurance, and existing business models in sectors including automotive, banking, health and energy are being questioned and re-defined. 

Meanwhile, we are talking about open innovation and the ecosystem. We must advance to the point of creating common new platforms and fields, and consolidating the national economy around these. How should we build the new ecosystem, what should the duties and responsibilities of stakeholders be, and how should we go about building a cloud Turkey? In this context, I believe the efforts to anchor ourselves to the EU are highly prudent and should be supported. I find it important that a shared structure and an academic world where data access is quicker and data use more appropriate are built, that data is used in business as well, and that companies enable sharing on data-based business models."

Izmir Institute of Technology Libraries and Documentation Division Director Gültekin GÜRDAL opened the summit with a presentation titled "Open Science for a Better Future." Discussing publication and citation numbers around the world, Gürdal said that open access was a key issue in increasing the publication visibility of Turkey. Gürdal emphasized the importance of open access for science, economy and the society, and shared best practices from the world, particularly the Netherlands and Germany.

Advisor to the CHE Chair Sezer Şener KOMSUOĞLU said that Turkey was second only to Russia in Europe in terms of student numbers. Noting that the figures promised hope and brought great responsibility, Komsuoğlu said that they acted with consideration for industry 4.0, sustainable development, digital transformation and regional development when devising higher education policies for the better education of young generations. Commenting on the importance of Open Science, Komsuoğlu said that the targeted efforts of the CHE to be announced in 2018 and 2019 would include Open Access and Open Science.

Saying that the need for open access and open science would not be restricted to academia and find its place in business as well, TÜBİTAK President Professor Hasan MANDAL continued, “Recently, TÜBİTAK initiated new processes for technology development and product development for products of high technology. The models devised by the new government system place particular emphasis on this. Turkey now has its own programs to develop domestic and local products. We call these high-technology platforms. And this is a meeting where we discuss open science to contribute to open innovation, and open access to contribute to open science." 

The summit continued with three sessions on “Open Science Policies, Infrastructure and Their Effect on Innovation in Europe", “The Place of Open Access and Open Data in Open Science” and “The Future of Research” to explore new ways for mass access to information and data, and increasing the scientific and technological cooperation among the public sector, universities and the industry.

The session “Open Science Policies, Infrastructure and Their Effect on Innovation in Europe " was moderated by Izmir Technology Institute Vice President Ahmet E. Eroğlu, and presenters were ATHENA research and Innovation Center / University of Athens Informatics and Telecommunication Department faculty member Natalia MANOLA on "European Open Science Cloud and OpenAIRE", CERN Cooperation, Tools and Applications Group President Tim SMITH on "Big Open Science in Practice", Hacettepe University Information and Document Management Department Professor Yaşar Tonta on "The Foundations of Open Science and Information as a Common Resource" and CIO, Münster University Information Technologies Center Director Raimund VOGL on "A Multi-University Project to Build Sustainable Open Source-Based Research Data Infrastructure".

Presenters in the "Future of Research" session moderated by Sabancı University Vice President of Research and Development  Professor Şirin TEKİNAY were Advisor to CHE Chair / EUA Research and Innovation Committee Member Sezer ŞENER KOMSUOĞLU on “European Universities Alliance (EUA) and Open Science”, Delft Technical University Data Management Coordinator Marta TEPEREK on “The Path to Re-Creatable Research: Data Management and Open Science", and Librarian Elli PAPADOPOULOU on “The Role of the Research Data Alliance (RDA) and the Mission of the Early Career and Engagement Interest Group (ECEIG)”.

The third session, "The Place of Open Access and Open Data in Open Science", was moderated by TÜBİTAK ULAKBİM member Mehmet Mirat SATOĞLU and presenters were Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR) Advisor İlkay HOLT on “The Role of Open Archives in Open Science", Hacettepe University Information and Document Management Department Associate Professor Zehra TAŞKIN and Dr. Güleda DOĞAN on "The Management of Research Data and the Current Situation in Turkey”.

The summit concluded with a panel discussion on "Open Science and Innovation".  Participants were Izmir Institute of Technology President Professor Mustafa Güden, Boğaziçi University President Professor Mehmed Özkan, Sabancı University Vice President of Research and Development Şirin Tekinay, Exporters Assembly of Turkey (TİM) Chair İsmail Gülle, and Arçelik Vice President of Production and Technology Oğuzhan Öztürk.

Times Higher Education (THE) revealed the Eurasian University Rankings. The inaugural rankings listed Sabancı University in 6th position. 22 Turkish universities were included in the ran

Times Higher Education (THE) revealed the Eurasian University Rankings. The inaugural rankings included 22 Turkish institutions, and listed Sabancı University in 6th position.  The countries that have the most universities in the ranking are Russia with 27 institutions, followed by Turkey with 22. 

Universities are ranked according to five criteria: Teaching, International Visibility, Industry Income, Research, and Citations.

Other Turkish universities in THE Eurasia were Koç in 5th, Boğaziçi in 13th, Atılım and ITU in 19th, METU in 22nd, Hacettepe in 23rd place. They were followed by Gebze Technical Institute in 30th, Izmir Technology Institute in 32nd., Istanbul in 33rd, Marmara and TOBB Economics and Technology in 37th, Yıldız Technical in 41st, Erciyes in 43rd, and Akdeniz in 47th place. Anadolu, Gazi and Ankara Universities were in the 51st to 60th range. Dokuz Eylül and Yeditepe Universities were in the top 70, while Ondokuz Mayıs University was in the top 100.

The Webometrics list of the best nanotechology-nanoscience experts of the world included Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences members Yuda Yürüm and Yusuf Menceloğlu.

Founded in 2006 to evaluate the academic performance of more than 20 thousand universities and hundreds of thousands of scientists across the world, Spanish Webometrics revealed the list of the top nanotechology-nanoscience scholars of the world.The list includes 15 scholars from Turkey, among which are Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences members Yuda Yürüm and Yusuf Menceloğlu.

Webometrics evaluated the scientific outputs of experts working in nanotechnology, a field viewed as the technology of the future and attracting billions of dollars in R&D funds in both developed and developing countries, and announced the top 1800 experts in this field. The methodology employed reliable and recognized scientific criteria such as H-index, number of citations, and number of documents to assess the impact of scientific output. Scientists having an H-index of less than 20 were excluded from the study. The most extensive academic performance ranking of the world includes only 15 scholars from Turkey.

Please click here for more information about the ranking.

The Sabancı University Program for Undergraduate Research (PURE) 2017-2018 Academic Year Summer Semester concluded with the PURE Fair on August 10, 2018.

The Sabancı University PURE program for undergraduate students to gain research experience was attended by 136 students from 20 institutions in addition to Sabancı University in its 2017-2018 Academic Year summer semester. Students worked on 52 interdisciplinary projects from engineering to fundamental and social sciences over the course of 7 weeks, and showcased their efforts at the "PURE Fair" poster presentation.

The PURE program began in the 2016-2017 Academic Year summer semester and has attracted 265 students in four semesters so far. 

The PURE Fair poster presentation began with introductory remarks by Sabancı University Vice President of Education Cem Güneri and Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Member Hüsnü Yenigün, and winning project teams received their awards from Sabancı University President Zehra Sayers.

Vice President of Education Cem Güneri said that the PURE program was offered to students of other universities for the first time this year, and as a result, the number of students increased by almost threefold: from 42 FENS students working on 22 research projects last year to 136 students from both Sabancı and other universities. Noting the importance of undergraduate student involvement in research projects at Sabancı University, Güneri continued: "You can continue the PURE program in future semesters and take your projects to the next level, and achieve more meaningful results through participation in international conferences and making publications. Keep in contact with your advisors and continue working.”

Winners of the PURE Fair:

• Samet Özcan, Azen Koç, Ceren Alganatay and Deniz Güçsavaş, working under advisors Kerem Bora and Emine Süphan Bakkal, with their project “Experimental evolution: Adaptation of microorganisms to extreme environments”

• Yasemin Utkueri and Batur Gültekin, working under advisor Serap Hayat Soytaş, with their project “Nanofiber/Natural Clay Antibacterial Nanocomposites via Green Electrospinning”

• İlknur Şafak Demirel and Gizem Çile, working under advisors Goksin Liu and Zehra Sayers, with their project “Iron-binding Protein Production in Bacteria”

• Aleyna Beste Özhan, Mustafa Emre Karaçar and Gökay Erbil, working under advisor Özge Akbulut, with their project “Rheological control enables printing of ultra lightweight cement composite for warmer climates”

Sabancı University President Zehra Sayers received the 2017 Rammal Medal at a ceremony in France.

The Rammal Medal recognizes a scientist, group of scientist or an institution for outstanding contributions to science in the Mediterranean region, and its 2017 recipient Professor Zehra Sayers, President of Sabancı University, was also the Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of SESAME between 2002 and 2018. 

The 2017 and 2018 Rammal Medals were presented at ESOF2018, the EuroScience Open Forum, that took place in Toulouse, France between July 9 and 14, 2018 with more than 4000 participants. The ESOF European Young Scientists Awards were also presented at the congress. ESOF is a biannual conference held by EuroScience, and is the largest interdisciplinary event in Europe.

At the ceremony, ESOF and Rammal Medal Jury Chair Prof. Lauritz Holm-Nielsen emphasized Prof. Sayers’ pioneering work in EMBL (European Molecular Biology Lab) Hamburg, her contributions to the foundation of Sabancı University, and her groundbreaking work in establishing the field of structural biology in Turkey.

Professor Holm-Nielsen stated: “The Jury wanted to honour now the woman who apart from her own outstanding scientific work has done more than anyone else to bring the project to the next stage: from collaboration at the political level and at the construction of the facility to getting the science going by ensuring high quality exciting projects of young and experienced scientists from the region.  She has done so as Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of SESAME."

Speaking at the event, Professor Sayers said that she was proud to have received this medal, and noted the jury's commitment over the years to recognize woman scientists when presenting this medal. Saying that advances in science were built equally on creativity and hard work as well as quality, integrity and sharing, Prof. Sayers explained that her work in various fields ultimately hoped to lay another brick on the road to progress, and play a part in building a scientific world.

 Prof. Sayers concluded that, at a time of worrying developments in the world and the near region, her colleagues who received the Rammal Medal and the concurrent European Young Scientists Awards were a source of great motivation for her.

About the Rammal Medal

The Rammal Award is named after a Lebanese researcher, Rammal Rammal (1951-1991), whose career was international and who devoted his life, not only to advancing science, but also to fostering good human relations through the pursuit and exchange of knowledge, especially in the Mediterranean region. Thus the Jury is also very attentive to the ethical and moral dimensions of scientific work, and attaches much importance to the part science can play in relieving social and political tensions in or between countries of the Mediterranean area. The Rammal Award recognizes a scientist, group of scientist or an institution not only for outstanding contributions to science, but also for positive actions in a broader social or educational context and especially in the promotion of collaboration and understanding in the Mediterranean region and neighbouring countries.

Scientific cooperation for peace in the Middle East

The founding members of SESAME (Synchrotron light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) are Cyprus, Jordan, Egypt, Iran, Pakistan, Turkey, Israel, and Palestine. The SESAME project has been established to provide new cultural and scientific links between member countries and thereby to encourage peaceful collaboration between them.

Eight countries join forces for SESAME, the first synchotron-light laboratory

SESAME (Synchrotron-light for Experimental Science and Applications in the Middle East) is a “third-generation” synchrotron light source that was officially opened in Allan (Jordan) on 16 May 2017. It is the Middle East's first major international research center. SESAME aims to provide opportunities to researchers from all Middle Eastern countries to leave their differences aside and speak the universal "scientific language" to know each other better. Supported by the international scientific community, the Sesame Project hopes to change the fate of the Middle East via science, and provide a different future for young people in the region who are involved in science.  As stated by Professor Zehra Sayers, the project also aims to prevent or reverse the brain drain of young scientists from the region.

A research team led by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Member İsmet İnönü Kaya developed a graphene-based screen prototype as part of the "ELMAS Project".  Their work to develop a Graphene-Based OLED Screen produced the highest pixel resolution in any graphene-based screen so far.

PHOTO: left to right: Vahid Sazgari Ardakani, Mohammad Hadi Khaksaran, Sibel Kasap, İsmet İnönü Kaya, Cenk Yanık , Hasan Özkaya, Süleyman Çelik, Abdülkadir Canatar

Researchers of the "ELMAS Project" ongoing at the Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Lab (SUNUM) in partnership with ASELSAN achieved a breakthrough success. The prototypes developed by the researchers have the highest pixel resolution in any graphene-based screen so far.

The technology allows for designing miniature as well as large-area screens in custom sizes for the defense industry to be used in thermal vision and avionic applications.

The project also involves developing and building prototype screen modules based on reinforcing LCD screens that are being used in military cockpits and are subject to export licensing.

ASELSAN and the Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) built Turkey's first facilities for developing OLED screens and graphene synthesis technologies.

The research team is led by Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Member İsmet İnönü Kaya.  Lead researchers are project engineers Süleyman Çelik, Hasan Özkaya and Dr. Sibel Kasap, and researchers are Sabancı University students Cenk Yanık (PhD graduate), Hadi Khaksaran (PhD), Vahid Ardakan (PhD), and Abdülkadir Canatar (BA and MSc). 

The positive outcomes of the Graphene-Based OLED Screen Development efforts led by ASELSAN and Sabancı University were presented by Sabancı University Associate Professor İsmet Kaya at the Eurodisplay Conference in Berlin. Conference participants were keenly interested in the presentation, and the event committee considered the work to have "potential for high impact."

The work received a publication offer from the Journal of the Society for Information Display.

The prototypes developed by the researchers made history as the highest pixel resolution in any graphene-based screen so far.

Use in flexible screens and wearable technologies

The ELMAS Project uses graphene instead of indium tin oxide (ITO), which is the default material for anodes in OLED screens. Graphene is expected to play a key part in flexible screens and wearable technologies in the future.

Being a carbon crystal that is only one atom thick, graphene is suited to application in many technologies with its translucency, high electrical conductivity, resilience and flexibility.

Discovered in 2004, graphene won its discoverers the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Transparent, flexible, light and portable graphene-based screens are expected to mostly replace current solutions in military and civilian applications.

Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Electronic Engineering 2009 graduate Rabia Tuğçe Yazıcıgil developed a novel type of transmitter at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where she continues her studies. Device uses ultrafast “frequency hopping” and data encryption to protect signals from being intercepted and jammed. This new technology protects wireless data from hackers. 

The initial applications of this technology could involve securing smart meters that read home utilities, control heating, or monitor the grid. 

Yazıcıgil: “More seriously, perhaps, the transmitter could help secure medical devices, such as insulin pumps and pacemakers, that could be attacked if a hacker wants to harm someone. When people start corrupting the messages [of these devices] it starts affecting people’s lives."

Devices connected around the world form an “internet of things” that includes medical devices, vehicles, and smart household technologies. By 2020, experts estimate that the number of these devices will rise to more than 20 billion, all uploading and sharing data online. But those devices are vulnerable to hacker attacks that locate, intercept, and overwrite the data, jamming signals and generally wreaking havoc. One method to protect the data is called “frequency hopping,” which sends each data packet, containing thousands of individual bits, on a random, unique radio frequency (RF) channel, so hackers can’t pin down any given packet. Hopping large packets, however, is just slow enough that hackers can still pull off an attack.

Now, Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Electronic Engineering 2009 graduate Rabia Tuğçe Yazıcıgil has developed a novel transmitter at MIT that frequency hops each individual 1 or 0 bit of a data packet, every microsecond, which is fast enough to thwart even the quickest hackers.

The transmitter leverages frequency-agile devices called bulk acoustic wave (BAW) resonators and rapidly switches between a wide range of RF channels, sending information for a data bit with each hop. In addition, the researchers incorporated a channel generator that, each microsecond, selects the random channel to send each bit. On top of that, the researchers developed a wireless protocol — different from the protocol used today — to support the ultrafast frequency hopping.

Rabia Tuğçe Yazıcigil, a postdoc in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and first author on a paper describing the transmitter, which is being presented at the IEEE Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits Symposium, said: “With the current existing transmitter architecture, you wouldn’t be able to hop data bits at that speed with low power. By developing this protocol and radio frequency architecture together, we offer physical-layer security for connectivity of everything." The initial applications of this technology could involve securing smart meters that read home utilities, control heating, or monitor the grid.

Yazıcıgil continues: “More seriously, perhaps, the transmitter could help secure medical devices, such as insulin pumps and pacemakers, that could be attacked if a hacker wants to harm someone. When people start corrupting the messages [of these devices] it starts affecting people’s lives."

Co-authors on the paper are Anantha P. Chandrakasan, dean of MIT’s School of Engineering and the Vannevar Bush Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS); former MIT postdoc Phillip Nadeau; former MIT undergraduate student Daniel Richman; EECS graduate student Chiraag Juvekar; and visiting research student Kapil Vaidya.

Sabancı University, named Turkey's most entrepreneurial and innovative, becomes the official implementer of the TÜBİTAK 1512 BİGG Program Phase 1 Activities with the "BiGGInner" project.

Sabancı University Startup Company League (SUCool) and İnovent A.Ş. became one of the official implementers of the TÜBİTAK 1512 BİGG Program Phase 1 Activities, which entail up to TL 150,000 in grants for innovative and technology-based ventures, with their “BiGGInner” project.

Sabancı University SUCool Director Naci KAHRAMAN explained that the BiGGInner Project would provide training, mentorship, pre-incubation, investor and client presentations, and prototype development and laboratory facilities to technology-based entrepreneurs in Istanbul and the near region, particularly in the energy and clean technologies, IoT and digital technologies, medical and biotechnologies, and smart transport and smart urban applications verticals.

Naci KAHRAMAN said that by becoming an official implementer of the TÜBİTAK 1512 BİGG Program Phase 1 Activities, the BiGGInner Project for "Roadmap to Innovative Entrepreneurs" would provide all support entrepreneurs need from business idea to product and international markets, and that the TÜBİTAK grant of up to TL 150,000 would further accelerate entrepreneurs.

The BiGGInner Project aims to reach more than 500 entrepreneurs and provide pre-incubation services to nearly 300 over the next 2 years.

The BiGGInner Project also includes a number of stakeholders with academic and industry experience in the specified verticals. The current supporters of the BiGGInner Project include Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM), Okan University, KORDSA, Farplas, BIC Angel Investments, Diffusion Capital Partners (DCP), Galata Angel Investor Network, ACT Venture Partners, Revo Capital and Şirket Ortağım.

Candidates interested in the BiGGInner Program may contact www.bigginner.com for more information and to submit their business ideas.

About the BiGGInner Project

Centered on the TÜBİTAK 1512 BİGG program, the Project is an end-to-end entrepreneurship support mechanism offering training, industry and technical mentorship, market and corporate business network development, pre-prototype and MVP production, laboratory access, and investor or customer presentations to tech-based entrepreneurs who have business ideas in the thematic fields of energy and clean technologies, smart transport, advanced manufacturing and industry, communication and digital transformation, and health and well-being.

BiGGInner is a TÜBİTAK-authorized official implementer that will collect the first stage applications for the 1512 BiGG Program, and is designed to "support entrepreneurs with innovation-focused technological ideas through mechanisms based on lean enterprise and market development methodologies, and accompany the entrepreneur on the journey to commercialization with a business plan prepared after technical and market-worthiness of the business idea is confirmed."

The technology- and innovation-focused business ideas of entrepreneurs will be supported from the idea stage to the market free of charge in order to enable them to convert their ideas to ventures with a high potential for adding value and creating employment opportunities.

2017-2018 Fall Term Undergraduate Horizontal Transfer Applications

Applications from universities other than Sabanci University (SU) and undergraduate programs within SU will be evaluated by the relevant Faculty Boards, in compliance with "Regulations on the Basis Concerning Horizontal Transfer among the Institutions of Higher Education at the Associate’s and Bachelor’s Degree Levels ," published by the Turkish Higher Education Board (YOK) and the rules adopted by Sabanci University. Applicants may be able to invited for the interviews,as required.
All application documents should be submitted to Sabanci University Student Resources Unit by July 24th, 2018. The related Faculty Administrative Committee evaluates transfer applications.
Evaluation results will be sent to the applicants in the written form. Delays due to the post will not be accepted. An interview will be organized for the candidates who are satisfying the application requirements during July 30, 2018. Applicants to be accepted to the programs will be determined as the result of the examination of the application documents by the related Faculty Administrative Council.

General Rules for the Application Requirements:

1. Equality: The equality of the institutions and programs which candidates are to leave must have been recognized by YOK for the overseas applications.
2. Equivalence: Institutions and programs which candidates are to leave should be the equivalent of the Undergraduate Programs of SU.
3. Term Completion: Students who had completed first two semester of the undergraduate diploma programs can apply. Last two semester of the diploma programs can not be applied.
4. Grade Point Average : Applicants must possess a minimum cumulative grade point average GPA of 60/100 (2.29/4.00). Candidates, applying from the universities implementing the grading system other than equivalency table of 4.00 and 100, should submit an official document and conversion table for the grades.
5. To Be Registered : Applicants must be registered in the current higher education institution as a student.
6. English Proficiency: The students certifying that they have passed one of the national and/or  international foreign language examinations at a level determined by the university and the ones who have graduated from a higher education where the medium of instruction is English are exempted from English Language exam. In all other applicants, the students are required to pass the English Language Assessment Exam (ELAE). Those candidates who fail to attend or get a satisfactory score in the exam are obliged to attend and successfully complete a full course of English Language Preparation in order to continue with undergraduate courses. Failure to complete this course successfully will result in termination of enrollment at Sabancı University.
7. Education Period: The total periods required to complete the program and those formerly passed must not exceed the maximum education period of 14 terms.

Application Documents:

All documents must have been ofically prepared in english or turkish languages. It is necessary to attach the Turkish or English notarized translations besides the original documents prepared in other languages.

1. Application Form and Application Fee : Applicants who apply for more than one program must fill just one Application Form (which will be avaliable during the application dates). The form must have been fotocopied as many as the number of programs applied for and the bank receipt for the payment of the non-refundable fee of 370 TL to the SABANCI University account numbered 30727 (IBAN NO:TR87 0004 6007 1388 8000 0307 27) with Akbank SABANCI University Branch must be attached to each form. Applicants for sophomore year should indicate the program set related to the graduation program they wished to study on their application form. The departments of these applicants will be determined in accordance with Sabancı University Undergraduate Education Regulations.
2. The Certificates of Examination Results: There must be a copy of OSYS certificate used for the admittance to the institutions the applicants are to leave for the applicants from domestic universities,including higher education associations in KKTC and those mentioned in the OSYM guide.         
   For  applicants, holding TR citizenship,  from overseas universities, should have one of the documents stated below:
            Please click for the exam/diploma list which is required for the applicants who get registered to a higher education institution outside of Turkey after 2017.
            Please see below for the exam/diploma list which is required for the applicants who get registered to a higher education institution outside of Turkey before 2017:

• In case of applications submitted from abroad, prospective students that are Turkish nationals must prove that they obtained the minimum score required to be placed in the relevant undergraduate program (185 points) in the OSYS exams administered in the year they are admitted to the university abroad or satisfied the requirements regarding any of the following examinations and minimum results.
• SAT 1 (min 1500/2400 score, new system min. 1090 ),
• ACT, Math, Science reasoning and total 21/36,
• GCE A Level Certificate (min. 2 courses),
• ABITUR (1-4 diploma score),
• International Baccalaureate  (IB min 28/45 diploma score),
• Matura (2/1 diploma score),
• French Bakalorya (min 12/20 diploma score).  
• Maturita (min 70/100 diploma score)
   

  It is required for the international applicants, who complete entire high school education outside of Turkey, to submit one of the exam or diplomas stated in the list in the below link:
    http://www.sabanciuniv.edu/sites/default/files/2018-2019_uluslararasi_sinav_listesi.pdf

3. Transcript: An official document demonstrating all GPA's, grades, and all accepted courses from Student Affairs Office of the higher education institution the applicant is enrolled in.
4. Detailed Description and Contents of The Courses: There must be documents with the contents and detailed descriptions of the courses indicated on the candidate's transcript. It will be useful for the overseas applicants to attach catalogs giving information about the foreign institutions or documents like these. It is required for each course which is succesfully passed. Courses which are found equivalent by the Faculty Administrative Board will be substituted with their grade.
5. English Proficiency Exam Result: The document certifying that the student has passed one of the national and/or international foreign language examinations at a level determined by the university (accepted by the University) or an official document indicating the program's education language prepared by the Student Affairs Office of the university the applicant is enrolled in(preferably enclosed) (for the fully English teaching institution) If the information is also indicated on the transcript, no more document is required.
6. Student Certificate :The document demonstrating that the applicant is a student of the institution prepared by the Student Affairs Office of the university the applicant is registered in.
7. Certificate of Disciplinary Standing: The document indicating the disciplinary standing for the domestic applicants (preferably enclosed prepared by the Student Affairs Office at the university applicant is enrolled in)
8. Letter of Recommendation: Min 2, preferably 3 letters of recommendation (enclosed). Sample letter is attached to the Application Form (which will be avaliable during the application dates).
9. High School Diploma: It is useful for the applicants graduated from domestic high schools to attach approved copy of their high school diploma and for the applicants graduated from overseas high schools to attach notarized turkish translations of their high school diploma and certificate of diploma equivalence from Turkish Ministry of Education - Teaching and Training Board. This certificate will be required later if the applicant is accepted.
10. The Passport Pages: Those pages with photo and identification information and approved photocopies of the pages relating to the years of education in the foreign higher education institutions for the overseas applicants.
11. The Document of Return from Abroad: The official writing indicating the state of the applicants whose parents have returned to Turkey upon completion of their offical duty or their working lives abroad.
12. Financial assurance to have education in Sabancı University (required for foreign students admitted.)
13.  Copies of certificates, courses, internships, sports competitions with rewards taken before.