The third award ceremony of the Start-Up Festival Idea Competition, organized by the Department of Entrepreneurship since 2019, was held at the Basın Express Campus Conference Hall on Wednesday, June 1, 2022.

A total of 115 people competed in the competition, to which 60 projects, 31 of which were group and 29 were individual, applied. The theme of the award ceremony for the competition was “Turn Your Ideas into Reality That Will Change the Changing World” and the ceremony began with the opening speeches of the Head of Department of Entrepreneurship, Assist. Prof. Dr. Nazan Çağlar, the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences, Prof. Dr. Müge Çetiner and our Rector Prof. Dr. Hanife Öztürk Akkartal. The award ceremony was held at the end of the program, which continued with the presentation of the winning projects.

The awards for the "Desinfectriangle" project, which won the Special Jury Award, were presented by Assist. Prof. Dr. Nazan Çağlar and Prof. Dr. Müge Çetiner.

The awards were given to the "You are not alone" and "Liquidambar Orientalis" teams, who shared the 3rd place, by Özgür Teraman representing the main sponsor TABAN GIDA and our Rector Prof. Dr. Hanife Öztürk Akkartal. 

Our Rector presented the award to the "Digital Wheel" team, which came the first in the Start-Up Festival III.

While a training program was awarded to all the qualifying teams by the Information Commercialization Center-BTM, one of the sponsors of "Start-Up Feast III", the teams that shared the third place were presented 5 thousand TL awards each and the team that came first were presented 15 thousand TL award by the main sponsor TABAN GIDA.

IKU Department of Radio, Television and Cinema was selected as a guest school to the 8th International Balkan Panorama Film Festival, which was held with cooperation of Republic of Türkiye Ministry of Culture and Tourism and Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, had Istvan Szabo on advisory board, and included world-famous directors and screenwriters such as Milcho Manchevski. Within the scope of the festival, which was hosted by Izmir between May 21-27, by organizing a special screening selection on behalf of IKU Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, the promotional and informational text of the department took part in the festival catalog. Moreover, our Head of the Department of Radio, Television and Cinema, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Perihan Taş Öz conducted an interview about the education policy of the departments and the films produced by the students.

Poster design of Emre Şahin, one of the students from the Department of Graphic Design, designed within the scope of the course titled “Conceptual Art”, entered the top 80 among 3041 works created by 1603 designers at the BIAH 3rd Bolu International Poster Design Competition with the theme of “Violence”, which was held with participation from 6 continents and 46 countries. Our student's design was included in 34 works selected to be exhibited from Turkey. We congratulate our student Emre Şahin for his achievements on a national and international scale, and we sincerely believe that he will add new ones to his success.

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Istanbul Kültür University Technology Transfer Office (TTO) officials and Institute of Graduate Studies manager Prof. Dr. Remzi Tunç Mısıroğlu came together. At the meeting; the issue of university-industry cooperation was discussed in line with the aim of increasing the global competitiveness of researchers by expanding the educational services offered by our university to the society through graduate and doctoral programs.

One of our academicians of the Department of Art and Culture Management Assoc. Prof. Dr Reyhan Uludağ’s works met with art-lovers at the DOART Art Gallery within Artcontact Istanbul 2nd Contemporary Art Fair. Dr. Mimar Kadir Topbaş Show and Art Center hosted the fair, in which Assoc. Prof. Dr. Uludağ participated as an invited artist, between May 26-29, 2022. Many galleries and artists from 32 different countries took part in the international fair with their works.

The Head of Program of Medical Documentation and Secretarial, Lecturer Zehra Kaşka Üreten presented her paper titled “Evaluation of the Relativity Trap in the Context of Behavioral Economics from the Framework of Health Services” on TÜSEB Health Policies Institute of Türkiye International Health Policies Congress, which was held on May 25-26, 2022, and in which Minister of Health of the Republic of Türkiye Dr. Fahrettin Koca gave the opening speech.

Lecturer Dr. Meri Taksi Deveciyan who is one of the academician in our Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences presented a paper titled “The Concept of Digital Heritage in the Context of Sustainability” at the “30th National Management and Organization Congress” hosted by Isparta Süleyman Demirel University.

The event “Presentation of Student Graduation Projects” will be held by the Faculty of Engineering on Monday, June 6, between 09.00-18.00 on the second floor of Ataköy Campus (Corridor of the Faculty of Engineering).

In cooperation with IKU Accounting and Auditing Club, Financial Literacy Club, and the Program of Business Management, a trip will be held to Borsa Istanbul (BIST) in Sarıyer on Tuesday, June 7, between 14.00-17.00 in order to inform our students about stock exchange operations.

A trip to Çanakkale Martyrdom will be held on June 7-8 in cooperation with IKU ELT Club and the Department of Foreign Language Education.

"10th SMEs and Productivity Congress" will be held in cooperation with IKU Department of Business and Small and Medium Enterprises Development and Support Administration (KOSGEB). The congress, where the problems of SMEs operating in Turkey will be discussed, will be held as a hybrid between 9-10 June 2022 (10.00-18.00) in Önder Öztunalı Conference Hall.

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