Korkut Kaan Tokgöz selected as guest editor for a special issue of Micromachines journal

Korkut Kaan Tokgöz selected as guest editor for a special issue of Micromachines journal

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”.

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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.

Another milestone completed in Konya Smart City Strategy and Roadmap Project

Another milestone completed in Konya Smart City Strategy and Roadmap Project

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.

Konya Akıllı Şehir Stratejisi

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.

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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.

SUNUM, İTÜ and TEMSA will develop a technology to extend battery life

SUNUM, İTÜ and TEMSA will develop a technology to extend battery life

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.

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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.

FASS Faculty Member Ersin Kalaycıoğlu has a new book published

FASS Faculty Member Ersin Kalaycıoğlu has a new book published

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.

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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.

We invite you to the Full- time MBA Program Information Session

We invite you to the Full- time MBA Program Information Session

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. 

Date:  February 9th 2022, Wednesday
Time: 18:30 pm (GMT+3)
Location:  Zoom- Please click here for registration.

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

IICEC Energy Market Newsletter - 24

IICEC Energy Market Newsletter - 24

Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC) has released the twenty-fourth issue of IICEC Energy Market Newsletter.

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Please click to read IICEC Energy Market Newsletter

2021-2022 Academic Year Spring Term Special Student Applications

2021-2022 Academic Year Spring Term Special Student Applications

Students who students enrolled at universities other than Sabancı University can apply to the courses offered by Sabancı University to participate as special students.

  • To be registered as a student in a higher education institution to be able to take a course from undergraduate level,
  • To be able to take a course from graduate level, it is necessary to be a student enrolled in a master, doctorate or proficiency in art program in a higher education institution,

Approval for special student application cannot be considered as the approval of any diploma programs. Transcript on which courses registered and course grades are printed can be given on demand to special students.

Deadline for application: January 28, 2022

2021-2022 Academic Year Spring Term Application Requirements

2021-2022 Academic Year Special Student Application


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Partned by SU Gender, RESISTIRÉ’s First Set of Outputs Has Been Released

Partned by SU Gender, RESISTIRÉ’s First Set of Outputs Has Been Released

The profect of RESISTIRÉ, which is represented by Sabancı University Gender and Women's Studies Center of Excellence (SU Gender) in Turkey, aims to understand the social, economic, political, and environmental impacts of the COVID-19 outbreak and its policy responses on existing inequalities in 31 countries (EU-27 plus Iceland, UK, Serbia and Turkey) and to work towards individual and societal resilience. This is achieved by mapping and collecting data, and by analysing and translating these insights into solutions to be deployed by policymakers, stakeholders and actors in the field in different policy domains.

Concluding its first cycle, RESISTIRE has delivered several ‘solution’ outputs based on the results of the project’s first research phase and insights co-created during the Open Studios: operational recommendations, pilots projects and research agendas.

Operational recommendations to mitigate the gendered impact of COVID-related policies are addressed at policymakers at the European, national and local levels; advisers; employers; and civil society organisations. Designed as factsheets, they focus on eight topics: gender mainstreaming, gender-balanced decision-making, gender equality and diversity plans for hospitals, inclusive green spaces, care and work-life balance, gender-based violence (at European and local levels) and telework. They are available here.

RESISTIRÉ is funding three pilot projects intended to reduce inequalities due to the COVID pandemic in specific domains and to strengthen small-scale resilience in response to current and future pandemics. Find out more:

  • EMPLOYERS WHO CARE: contributing to the positive transformation of the homecare sector and the working conditions of domestic workers. Application deadline: 31 January 2022, 12pm.
  • GREEN SPACES: transforming green spaces into an ‘Ecosystem of Care’ accessible to all users. Application deadline: 16 January 2022, 12pm.
  • CARING WORKSPACES: co-creating caring workspaces promoting inclusiveness, diversity, safety and care for all employees and responding to the new challenges posed by the pandemic. Application deadline: 31 January 2022, 12pm.

Finally, the Agenda for Future Research analyses previous findings from the RESISTIRÉ project, identifies research gaps and outlines which research questions and topics future research should address, and what questions RESISTIRÉ will focus on in the second cycle. Knowledge gaps and future research needs were identified in four domains: Care, Work & Pay, Human Rights and Health and Gender-based Violence. Read more here.

RESISTIRÉ is organising a webinar that will introduce Research Funders and other stakeholders to the research agendas and will give them the opportunity to ask questions to the project’s team: Inequalities in the Spotlight: Research Agendas to Address the Impact of COVID-19. 1st February 2022, 15:00-16:30h CET.

The SENTRUM project encourages green solutions and energy-efficient investments in Küçükköy

The SENTRUM project encourages green solutions and energy-efficient investments in Küçükköy

Thanks to the SENTRUM project which continues under the cooperation of Sabancı University, Enerjisa Energy and UNDP, Ayvalık Küçükköy will set an example for sustainable tourism.

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The first phase studies were completed in the SENTRUM project started last August by Sabancı University, Enerjisa Energy and the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) to make Ayvalık Küçükköy a sustainable energy-based tourism implementation center. SENTRUM aims to enhance the access of tourism sector, one of the most important sectors of Turkish economy, to renewable energy, and contribute to transforming this sector to a sustainable structure by enhancing its energy efficiency potential.

Efforts are continuing in Küçükköy, which prepares to set an example in Turkey for its “green destination model”, in order to make tourism businesses and public buildings energy efficient in addition to extending renewable energy and other sustainable tourism practices.

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New solutions and energy-efficient practices will expand

In this context, preliminary due diligence was carried out in small businesses in the region to evaluate their current standing in terms of energy consumption spots in their premises, energy performance analysis, energy efficiency and savings opportunities. Lighting was found the most important energy efficiency opportunity in these businesses. Replacement of current light bulbs with LED bulbs alone will help save energy by 80-95%.

In the framework of this study which is carried out on a company-by-company basis, selected businesses in the region will be granted support to replace their inefficient equipment. In addition, awareness-raising, training and events will be organized for the business owners and the local people about energy, environment and sustainable tourism.

In order to support agriculture, which is among important sources of income in the region, cooperation will be made with local producers in the framework of responsible production and consumption in an effort to let agriculture and tourism support each other.

In addition, tourism values of the region were determined in the context of making the region a green destination, and global green destination standards and good practices from other countries were examined.

Innovative energy solutions are being provided to the iconic buildings in the region

In this context, the goal is to make the buildings included in the project energy-efficient and self-sufficient without modifying their original structures with a perspective to lead sustainable tourism implementation. Energy efficiency areas and potential improvements were discussed during the studies carried out at Halis Komili Primary School, Küçükköy Cultural Center, Küçükköy Central Mosque, City Museum and Sabancı University Creative Technologies Atelier. Thanks to this project, establishment of energy-efficient structures that derive their energy from the nature will set a role model in the region and mean another step to the sustainability targets. Enerjisa Energy company will integrate solar energy systems, LED lighting conversion, and e-charging solutions for electric vehicles in the framework of “the Energy of My Business” project, thus providing an additional 5 million TL of contribution to the SENTRUM project.

Sentrum Projesi Basın Etkinliği

Rasim Karas, Secretary General of Sabancı University, said the following about the SENTRUM project: “As Sabancı University, we always believe in the strength of creating and developing together. Accordingly, we collaborate with the private sector, public sector and industrial companies to realize projects that contribute to society. We offered science and technology training to 1649 students from 24 schools at the Sabancı University Creative Technologies Atelier, which aims to raise individuals who are aware of the world's problems, have the desire and ability to find solutions to the problems, and who are capable of achieving sustainable development. We are now acting together with Enerjisa Energy and UNDP in the SENTRUM project hosted by the Sabancı University Creative Technologies Atelier to transform Küçükköy to a Sustainable Green Destination Model. The SENTRUM project, whose quick-wins can already be seen, will be a leading project to support green tourism. We are proud that the Creative Technologies Atelier hosts such an important project”.

Talking about the current status of the SENTRUM project, Ebru Taşçıoğlu, Head of Sustainability and Corporate Capabilities at Enerjisa Energy, said the following: “We think that the SENTRUM project, which we believe will add value to the future of tourism in the region and the country, will help Küçükköy unleash its potential and carry it to the position it deserves. After our launching event, we received positive feedback from the local people and the local administrations, which keeps us very excited and motivated. We will not confine our project to tourism businesses, buildings and museums in the region. As Enerjisa Energy, we support this project through the integration of products under “the Energy of My Business” umbrella with a focus on energy efficiency, savings, reduction of carbon emissions, use of renewable energy sources on the basis of sustainability, and we believe this project will mark the beginning of a great transformation. With this in mind, we will continue to carry out projects that contribute to the future of our country and the energy sector for a greener world.

In addition, we are here today with our “I Protect My Energy” Children’s Theater, which we have continued for 11 years to contribute to raising the awareness of the local people and our children about energy efficiency and sustainable tourism”.

Mustafa Ali Yurdupak, UNDP Turkey’s Public Sector and Social Policies Portfolio Manager said the following about the project: “As UNDP, we have been working for a long time on sustainable tourism, energy efficiency and the use of renewable energy sources in various regions of Turkey in order to support sustainable development. The SENTRUM project we implement in Küçükköy is an initiative we contribute to with our experience in this field and I believe the project will contribute to local economic development.

Our goal is to make Küçükköy a destination where energy efficiency is secured everywhere from commercial businesses to public buildings, renewable energy practices are applied, businesses procure their agricultural products from local producers, water is used efficiently, waste is sorted, local culture is preserved and visitors want to visit not just in summer months but all round the year with the green destination model that we are trying to build. I believe we will raise awareness about tourism and energy through our applications and training sessions in the region”.

It will be ensured that municipalities, related public institutions, NGOs, universities and the local people attend project activities to strengthen the adoption and inclusivity of the project at the local level. For that purpose, awareness will be raised about energy efficiency and renewable energy through the Green Energy Center which will be established at the Sabancı University Creative Technologies Atelier in Küçükköy.

Launched in August 2021 by Sabancı University, Enerjisa Energy and UNDP, the Sustainable Energy-Based Tourism Implementation Center (SENTRUM) initiative is intended to last for 18 months.

Sabancı University receives “the Most Reputable Foundation University of the Year” Award

Sabancı University receives “the Most Reputable Foundation University of the Year” Award

Sabancı University has been selected “the most reputable foundation university of the year” by receiving the highest number of votes in “the ONE Awards Integrated Marketing Awards”, organized under the collaboration of Marketing Türkiye and Akademetre, and considered one of the most important awards in the marketing sector.

Winners of “the ONE Awards Integrated Marketing Awards” organized under the collaboration of Marketing Türkiye and Akademetre have been announced. Organized for the eighth time this year, “the ONE Awards Integrated Marketing Awards” were prepared based on the results of the “Reputation and Brand Value Performance Measurement” research carried out on behalf of Marketing Türkiye by Akademetre, a company known for its competence in market and consumer research. As a result of face-to-face interviews with a total of 1.200 people in 12 provinces, the brands that enhanced their reputation the most during the year and the stakeholders that contributed to their success were determined.

Sabancı University received “the most reputable foundation university of the year” in “the ONE Awards Integrated Marketing Awards”. Mena Communications company in addition to Mika Agency, the creative agency, Havas Media, the media agency, and Promoqube, the digital agency, which contributed considerably to the success of Sabancı University, which received the highest number of votes among foundation universities, were also present at the award ceremony.

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