Goal 9: Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Karolinska Institute Faculty Member, Department of Chemistry, undergraduate (2009) and master’s degree (2011) graduate Dr. With the project he partnered with, Onur Parlak was among the 56 projects supported by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and received support of 1 Million Euros (Total support received by the project: 3.7 Million Euros).

Elif Güngörmüş Deliismail, our 2012 Chemical Engineering (Bachelor’s) and 2015 Environmental Engineering (Master’s) graduate, who continues her PhD studies in the Chemical Engineering Department, and our Chemical Engineering Department Faculty Member Prof. Dr. Erol Şeker US-based software development company Bentley Systems Inc.

Our Faculty Member of the Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Prof., who was entitled to receive support within the scope of TÜBİTAK BİGG 2021-1 Call. Dr. We congratulate Ferit Acar Savacı and our Mechanical Engineering Department Master’s Student Sinan Göçmen and wish them continued success.

We shared with our students that the second of the Mentee/Mentoring program, which we carried out in 2020 in cooperation with our Career Office and Peryön Turkey Human Resources Association, has started. The consultancy service our students will receive through this program, which will contribute to their academic and professional development, will be a preliminary guidance process to prepare them for professional business life.

The foundation of the IT Valley Izmir, declared by the Presidential Decree, was laid at a ceremony attended by the Last Prime Minister of the Republic of Turkey Binali Yıldırım, the Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank and the Governor of Izmir Yavuz Selim Köşger.

Within the scope of GCC101 Career Planning Course, Teknopark İzmir Entrepreneurship Coordinator Burçak İlter from Timurçin and IZTECH communities

Graduate and faculty member of IZTECH Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Dr. Atakan Ekiz was entitled to be supported within the scope of TUBITAK 2232-B International Young Researchers Program with his project titled “Characterization of microRNA mechanisms that control tumor immunity and discovery of new targets and biomarkers in cancer immunotherapy”, which he prepared at IZTECH, where he returned about a year ago.

Spring 2022 semester at Teknopark Izmir ClassBoom Incubation Center, Rector Prof. Dr. It started with the opening lecture of Yusuf Baran.

With the attendance of İzmir Governor Yavuz Selim Köşger, the İzmir Entrepreneurship Ecosystem Cooperation Strategy Development Meeting was held within the scope of the İzmir Network and Innovation Center (NIC) Project, in which İYTE is a stakeholder and executed by Teknopark İzmir, supported by the financial cooperation of the European Union and the Republic of Turkey. 

CreaTECH+ VIII, with the theme of awareness in the field of innovation, organized for the eighth time this year by the Izmir High Technology Institute Innovation Community, was held on 9 – 10 March.

Windso Team, co-founded by our 2022 Mechanical Engineering Master’s Degree Graduate Çağlar Gediksiz, was entitled to receive the “Top 3 Outstanding Pre-Incubation Teams of 2021 Award” with Kyoto.

Uniqgene, the initiative of Yasemin Ük and Dudu Seher Yurt, our 2019 graduates of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, received the ITU INNOGATE award on the Big Bang stage on December 7-8, 2022, and succeeded in becoming the 2022 initiative that collected the most investments during the year.

The ninth R&D and Design Centers and Technology Development Zones Summit was hosted by IZTECH with the attendance of Turkish Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank.

2022 TÜBA-TÜBİTAK Science Awards were awarded at the ceremony held at the Presidential Complex under the auspices of the Presidency.

Izmir Institute of Technology  (IYTE) Wind Energy Meteorology and Environmental Application and Research Center (RÜZMER) was established. RÜZMER, which will be located in the Integrated Research Centers (TAM) complex with a 7,000 m 2 closed area in the Gülbahçe Campus, where IYTE’s thematic centers serving all academic and industrial researchers throughout Turkey are located, will be located in the Integrated Research Centers (TAM) complex with a 7,000 m 2 closed area. Approved with.

Our Physics Department faculty member Assoc. Prof. is entitled to separate support within the scope of the TÜBİTAK BİGG Program, of which Teknopark İzmir located on our campus is a partner. Dr. We congratulate Serkan Ateş (our 2003 Physics Department undergraduate graduate) and our Chemistry Department PhD graduate (2018) MelekThirk Özkan and wish them continued success.

The project of Ersin Çine, PhD student of IZTECH Department of Computer Engineering, came second in the Educational Technologies Category at TEKNOFEST Aviation, Space and Technology Festival 2022.

The “Marie Sklodowska-Curie Scholarship and Circulation Supports” field, which is under the Scientific Excellence component of the Horizon Europe Program, is the signature of the Advanced Materials and Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Project, which receives support within the scope of the Contribution Fund for Scholarship Programs (COFUND) and is coordinated by Gazi University, hosted by IZTECH. It was thrown out at the meeting.
Organized by Teknopark İzmir; Investors appeared on the Tech’n Roll stage of 13 Startups in the “ClassBoom Incubation Acceleration” and “WE4GAME Game Incubation” programs.
IZTECH received the “Internationalization Strategy of the Year Award” at THE Awards Asia 2022.
The results of THE Awards Asia 2022, organized by Times Higher Education (THE), the well-known international rating platform known as the Oscars of higher education, have been announced.
2015 Master’s degree graduate of IZTECH Molecular Biology and Genetics Department, Dr. A team of scientists led by Caner Akin discovered a protein similar to eukaryotic tubulin in the genome of an archaea isolated from the hot spring waters of Yellowstone National Park. It was shown that this protein, which they named OdinTubulin  , resembles both eukaryotic tubulins and prokaryotic FtsZ proteins. OdinTubulin may represent an evolutionary intermediate between FtsZ and eukaryotic microtube-forming tubulins.
The commission members who took part in the application process for the “Internationalization Strategy Award of the Year” won at THE Awards Asia 2022 were Rector Prof. Dr. They came together at the meeting held in the Senate Hall under the chairmanship of Yusuf Baran.
Our faculty member of the Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Prof. Dr. Devrim Pesen Okvur was awarded the “EMBO Advanced Cooperation Grant”.