A project that will be implemented by Bahattin Koç, Sabancı University Engineering and Natural Sciences (FENS) and SU IMC faculty member is entitled to support within the framework of the TÜBİTAK 1004 Program. 

The project is entitled "New Generation 3-D Printer Manufacturing Technologies Platform". The aim of the "New Generation 3-D Printer Manufacturing Technologies Platform" project is to develop new generation additive manufacturing technologies for manufacturing high value-added, critical aviation/defense industry products. The project is planned to last 48 months and will bring Technology Readiness Level (TRL) of additive manufacturing technologies and applications to TRL-6. 

The platform is funded by TÜBİTAK 1004 Program with a total budget of more than 51 million Turkish Liras. The platform will be coordinated by Gazi University and in addition to  Sabancı University, Aselsan A.Ş., Ermaksan A.Ş., Roketsan A.Ş., TUSAŞ, TEİ, Erzurum Technical University and TÜBİTAK-MAM will be partnering companies and institutions. 

The project will be carried out at Sabancı University Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center (SU IMC) under the leadership of Prof. Bahattin Koç. Dr. Murat Işık, SU IMC researcher, Prof. Mustafa Ünel, FENS member and SU IMC researcher, and Asst. Prof. Eda Aydoğan Güngör, faculty member from METU, will take part in the project as researchers. Sabancı University’s budget in the project is 5,77 million Turkish Liras. 

Prof. Bahattin Koç mentioned the importance of the project: “With this platform, it will be possible to additively manufacture critical aerospace and defense parts with complex geometries with improved properties. The additive manufacturing technologies and materials developed with this platform can be directly used and commercialized in aerospace aviation/defense industries by the partner companies of the platform”.

In commemoration of our beloved instructor, Meral Güçeri, an AL102 essay competition is held every semester.

The winners of the competition held in 2021-22 Fall Semester are as follows: 

1st place Kemal Ayhan

2nd place Kerim Taşkıran

3rd place İlayda Kaytaran

Congratulations to our winners! Meral Hoca would have been very proud.

Results of TÜBİTAK’s 1512 Individual Young Entrepreneurship (BiGG) Program for the 2021/1 period have been announced. 10 enterprises within the BiGG4Tech project led by Sabancı University Inovent have been entitled to a grant support of up to 200 thousand TL.

Being an official partner selected by TÜBİTAK to collect first phase applications to the 1512 BİGG Program, BİGG4Tech was designed "to support entrepreneurs with innovation-oriented technology ideas with different mechanisms based on lean enterprise and market development methodologies, and accompany them on their journey to commercialize their enterprise with a business plan prepared after their business idea is verified from a technical and marketing perspective".

The BiGG4tech consortium, formed in partnership with Çukurova Teknokent, Namık Kemal University Teknopark, and Bursa Uludağ University Technology Transfer Office under the leadership of Sabancı University Inovent, completed applications for the 2021/1 period on July 23, 2021.

1789 entrepreneurs have been supported so far within the framework of the BİGG program, initiated by TÜBİTAK in 2012. Within the framework of the first call of the year 2021, 63 implementing parties provided accelerator services to entrepreneurs including training, mentoring, incubation, use of collaboration networks and customer verification support. In the second phase of the program, entrepreneurs are provided with a capital support of up to 200 thousand TL once they establish their companies.

Business plans of 305 entrepreneurs approved by the implementing parties were evaluated in the 2^nd phase panels organized by TÜBİTAK. As a result of the panel evaluations carried out by academics, industrialists and investors, it was decided to provide 2^nd phase support to 132 within the framework of the first call of 2021.

Entitled to receive support, these enterprises will establish their companies officially, and sign an agreement with TÜBİTAK, and start to work to realize their business plans on February 1, 2022.

Sabancı University International Relations Office (IRO) visited a large number of high schools in Pakistan in the period 22-25 November 2021.

Our valued Pakistani alumni Laraib Tanveer, (BA in Management, 2018), Fiaz Ahmad, (PhD in Mechatronics Engineering, 2017), Muhammad Usama (BA in Management, 2017) and Muhammad Hamza Omer Siddiqui (BA in Economics, 2021) kindly cooperated with the IRO team by joining a number of these recruitment events.

They met with prospective students from some of the most reputable colleagues in Karachi and Islamabad and helped answer students’ questions about studying at Sabancı University and living in Turkey. 

International Energy Agency (IEA) Executive Director and the Honorary Chairman of Sabancı University Istanbul International Center for Energy and Climate (IICEC), Dr. Fatih Birol has been awarded the “Legion d'Honneur”, France’s highest state award.

Fatih Birol has been awarded the "Officier dans L'Ordre National de la Legion d'Honneur”, the highest decoration bestowed by France since the era of Napoleon Bonaparte to reward people with outstanding success from across the world. The award was given to Fatih Birol, who was included in the TIME magazine’s “the 100 most influential people of 2021” list, for his contributions to the fight against climate change.

Stating that he was proud to receive the honor awarded by France, Fatih Birol said the following: “We are working to achieve the targets set in the Paris Agreement. The Paris Agreement is the most important agreement made after World War II. The purpose of this agreement is to prevent the climate crisis.  Last year, we drew up a roadmap for concrete steps to be taken in the global energy sector and a roadmap for these steps to achieve targets of the agreement".

The application deadline for the Sabancı University Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards, of which the theme for the year 2022 was chosen as “The Future of Globalization: Return of the State?”, has been extended to January 28, 2022.

Research essays on the subject of “The Future of Globalization: Return of the State” can be submitted until January 28, 2022 in the framework of the annual Sakıp Sabancı International Research Awards, which are endowed in the will of Sakıp Sabancı, the Honorary Chairperson of Sabancı University, as the only international awards program in Turkey in the field of social sciences

The Sakıp Sabancı International Research Award entails a Jury Prize of 25,000 USD, which will be awarded to an individual who has made distinguished contributions in this theme. The essay category includes an award of 10,000 USD for a certain number of winning essays written by researchers under 45 years of age selected by the same jury panel from among submissions made for the competition.

This year’s theme is shaped around the following questions:

Globalization has transformed the relations between state, market, and society. At the turn of the century, protests and movements against the financial and trade institutions of globalization have led scholars to study its broken promises, its winners and losers and the growing discontent. Twenty years on, we are facing a backlash against globalization beyond its economic dimension.  Withdrawals from international and regional institutions, electoral successes of nationalist leaders and anti-immigrant sentiments are the new manifestations of this backlash against political and social globalization.

Yet, we do live in a world of states. The pandemic has once again revitalized this ongoing debate on whether globalization is in retreat and whether we are witnessing the comeback of the state. If so, what kind of a state? The complexities of the modern world have arguably made the structure and capabilities of the state ever more consequential for its society as well as the broader international society. The emergence of a truly multipolar world and the alternative models of state capitalism under authoritarian governments also call into question what kind of future awaits the globalization phenomenon.

Essays that address such topics and compare different context and historical periods are welcome.

For further information: https://award.sabanciuniv.edu

10 projects of Sabancı University faculty members and researchers have been granted within the framework of TÜBİTAK ARDEB 2021 2^nd term "1001-Scientific and Technological Research Projects Support Program”.

Supported projects are:

Principal Investigator Ali Koşar, Faculty Member at Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and part-time researcher at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) - project entitled “Energy Harvesting with Small-Scale Hydrodynamic Cavitation and Development of New Generation Microfluidic Energy Harvesting Devices”. 2 full-time members and 1 technical expert from SUNUM take part in the project as researchers.

Principal Investigator Araz Sheibani Aghdam*, post-doctoral researcher at the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and part-time researcher at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) - project entitled “Energy Efficient Co2 Capture with High-Performance Segregation Device Equipped with Hydrodynamic Cavitation Microfluidic System and Co2-phyilic Electrospun Nanofibers”,

Principal Investigator Bahattin Koç*, member of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences and part-time researcher at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) - project entitled “Manufacturing of Leather Conjugate Supporting Hair Follicle Development through Innovative 3D Hybrid Bioprinting Method”,

Principal Investigator Ezgi Karabulut Türkseven, member of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences - project entitled “Machine Learning Applications that Learn Product Valuations to the Problem of Package Pricing”,

Principal Investigator Hatice Sinem Şaş Çaycı, researcher at Integrated Manufacturing Technologies Research and Application Center (SU-IMC) - project entitled “Manufacturing of New Generation Thermoplastic Space and Aviation Composites with Automatic Fiber Laying Process: Towards On-Site Consolidation and Composite 4.0”,

Principal Investigator Hüseyin Özkan, member of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences - project entitled “Non-Supervised Deep Learning for Practical and High-Performance Brain-Computer Interfaces and an Innovative Video Target Marking and Tracking Application”,

Principal Investigator Junko Kanero, member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - project entitled “Development of Attitudes Towards Robots and Other Groups: Examination of Human-Robot Interaction from the Perspective of Inter-Group Contact”,

Principal Investigator Morteza Ghorbani*, researcher at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM) - project entitled “Experimental and Numerical Examination of Thrombolysis Induced by Hydrodynamic Cavitation by Using Clot on a Chip Model and Prototyping of Hydrodynamic Cavitation-Supported, Catheter-Guided Thrombolysis Device”,

Principal Investigator Nur Mustafaoğlu Varol, member of the Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences - project entitled “Selection of Peptide Sequences That Can Pass the Blood-Brain Barrier by Using the Most Developed 3D In Vitro Organ Chip Models and Their Integration with Nano-Transmitter Systems”,

Principal Investigator Özge Kemahlıoğlu Bayer, member of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences - project entitled “The Role of Information on Updating Voters’ Expectations”.

*Projects of which principal investigators are Bahattin Koç, member of FENS, Araz Sheibani Aghdam, post-doctoral researcher at FENS, and Morteza Ghorbani, researcher at SUNUM, will be carried out at Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center.

The criteria considered favorably in the evaluation of 1001 project applications are including: The outcome performance of principal investigators’ previous supported projects, compatibility with priority areas in TÜBİTAK’s call plan and increase in the technological readiness level in the proposed project, projects that are directly related to R&D and innovation in the framework of compliance with the Green Deal, being involved in EU projects under Horizon 2020 as a coordinator, multi-disciplinary/inter-disciplinary projects, university-university collaboration and university-industry collaboration projects.

The application deadline for online winter high school program heen extended to 20 January 2022. 

Education programs will be delivered in two categories, namely Online Winter High School and Online Winter Nanotechnology School.

Entrance to university education: Winter High School

Organized by Sabancı University since 2011, the Winter High School aims to enable high school students to have university experience. 

Students at the Sabancı University Online Winter High School, which will be held from January 24 to February 4, 2022, can select courses from among more than 20 disciplines such as natural sciences, engineering, social sciences, arts, and management.  Students will receive online education for two weeks with learning sessions every weekday. 

Students curious about science will come together at the Online Nanotechnology Winter School

Sabancı University will organize the Online Nanotechnology Winter School for students curious about science from January 24 to February 4, 2022. 

Course content of the Online Nanotechnology Winter School has been created with the support of Sabancı University Center of Excellence for Functional Surfaces and Interfaces on Nano Diagnostics (EFSUN) and Sabancı University Nanotechnology Research and Application Center (SUNUM). Courses will be delivered by the University’s faculty members and researchers, and students can select courses that they are interested in. Courses span a wide range of subject areas including nano-manufacturing, battery operation principles, genetic diseases and gene therapy, and nanotechnology. 

Losing his family when he was a student at our university, our alumnus has established the “House of Imran” fund to support students who are successful and in need of financial support at our university, which he considers like his home.

Established for the first time among our alumni, this fund will provide scholarships to successful undergraduate students who need financial support.

You can donate to the account number below to contribute to the growth of the Fund and give scholarships to a higher number of students.

You can contact us to provide similar support by establishing a Scholarship Fund on behalf of yourself, your family or your graduation class.

Every piece of support will help our students have an easier educational life.

Accompanied by a delegation, Prof. Dr. Sezai Elagöz, Vice President of ASELSAN in charge of R&D, has paid a visit to Sabancı University.

Hosted by Yusuf Leblebici, President of Sabancı University, the visitors included Dr. Halidun Fildiş, Aselsan’s R&D Director and a big team of R&D researchers. During the three-day visit of Aselsan’s technical team to Sabancı University campus in Tuzla, related members of Sabancı University Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences made presentations about their fields of study.

During the visit where Sabancı University talent and laboratory infrastructures were presented, Sabancı University researchers and Aselsan technical team had the opportunity to exchange information about potential cooperation areas. As a follow-up action of this visit, workshops are planned in early-2022 in the fields determined with the contribution of Sabancı University Ankara Project Office.