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Fellow:Selin Yilmaz

2022-09-16T12:37:32Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Bio */

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==Bio==
Selin Yilmaz was born in Istanbul and raised in Antalya. Completing her education till university in there, she started her higher education back in Istanbul. She received her bachelor's degree in Management Engineering from Istanbul Technical University (ITU). She is currently pursuing her master's degree in Management and Technology at Technical University of Munich (TUM).

Selin took an active role in ITU Management Engineering Club and took part in the kitchen of the 10th Information Technologies Summit and the 19th Management Sciences Congress. She also took part in the organization and finance team of the “Layers” themed TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity conference. Through the processes, she learned about student club dynamics and how tiring but also fun organizing an event is.

Selin is also a fellow in Fire-Up Changemakers Program, which aims to build a student community that will create change on campus, focusing on developing students’ entrepreneurship and social innovation skills, and introduced her to the University Innovation Fellows Program. Since March 2020, Selin has been working as an undergraduate research assistant in one of the European Commission's Knowledge Alliance projects called Boundary Spanners, which focusses on the role of boundary spanners in removing barriers of university-industry cooperation.

As a University Innovation Fellow, Selin co-created ITU Learning Community, an online learning community at the campus to strengthen the innovative and entrepreneurial skillsets of the ITU students. This community of practice enabled participants to experiment with various tools used in innovation, engaging with an online learning environment that encourages individuals to learn more, and socializing with fellow students in the online semester. In addition to the team project, she also led LetsInnomind Program, which is an interface program in ITU for student-industry collaboration aims to enhance the connection between student project teams and industry and encouraging them to co-create.

The courses and campus activities fueled her enthusiasm for project development and creating an impact for a sustainable future. Her research interests are university-industry collaboration, ecosystem building, product development, and organizational behavior. She also rejoices in reading about archeology and history, listening to various genres, and trying different cuisines.

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinzmliy LinkedIn]

[https://www.instagram.com/selinlul/ Instagram]

[https://twitter.com/selinlul Twitter]

[[Category:Istanbul Technical University (2020 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

{{CatTree|Istanbul Technical University}}

Fellow:Selin Yilmaz

2022-06-05T18:22:24Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Bio */

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==Bio==
Selin Yilmaz was born in Istanbul and raised in Antalya. Completing her education till university in there, she started her higher education back in Istanbul. She is currently a senior student at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) studying Management Engineering.

Selin took an active role in ITU Management Engineering Club and took part in the kitchen of the 10th Information Technologies Summit and the 19th Management Sciences Congress. She also took part in the organization and finance team of the “Layers” themed TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity conference. Through the processes, she learned about student club dynamics and how tiring but also fun organizing an event is.

Selin is also a fellow in Fire-Up Changemakers Program, which aims to build a student community that will create change on campus, focusing on developing students’ entrepreneurship and social innovation skills, and introduced her to the University Innovation Fellows Program. Since March 2020, Selin has been working as an undergraduate research assistant in one of the European Commission's Knowledge Alliance projects called Boundary Spanners, which focusses on the role of boundary spanners in removing barriers of university-industry cooperation.

As a University Innovation Fellow, Selin co-created ITU Learning Community, an online learning community at the campus to strengthen the innovative and entrepreneurial skillsets of the ITU students. This community of practice enabled participants to experiment with various tools used in innovation, engaging with an online learning environment that encourages individuals to learn more, and socializing with fellow students in the online semester. In addition to the team project, she also led LetsInnomind Program, which is an interface program in ITU for student-industry collaboration aims to enhance the connection between student project teams and industry and encouraging them to co-create.

The courses and campus activities fueled her enthusiasm for project development and creating an impact for a sustainable future. Her research interests are university-industry collaboration, ecosystem building, product development, and organizational behavior. She also rejoices in reading about archeology and history, listening to various genres, and trying different cuisines.

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinzmliy LinkedIn]

[https://www.instagram.com/selinlul/ Instagram]

[https://twitter.com/selinlul Twitter]

[[Category:Istanbul Technical University (2020 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

{{CatTree|Istanbul Technical University}}

Fellow:Selin Yilmaz

2022-06-05T18:13:06Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Bio */

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==Bio==
Selin Yilmaz was born in Istanbul and raised in Antalya. Completing her education till university in there, she started her higher education back in Istanbul. She is currently a senior student at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) studying Management Engineering.

Selin took an active role in ITU Management Engineering Club and took part in the kitchen of the 10th Information Technologies Summit and the 19th Management Sciences Congress. She also took part in the organization and finance team of the “Layers” themed TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity conference. Through the processes, she learned about student club dynamics and how tiring but also fun organizing an event is.

Selin is also a fellow in Fire-Up Changemakers Program, which aims to build a student community that will create change on campus, focusing on developing students’ entrepreneurship and social innovation skills, and introduced her to the University Innovation Fellows Program. Since March 2020, Selin has been working as an undergraduate research assistant in one of the European Commission's Knowledge Alliance projects called Boundary Spanners, which focusses on the role of boundary spanners in removing barriers of university-industry cooperation.

As a University Innovation Fellow, Selin co-created ITU Learning Community, an online learning community at the campus to strengthen the innovative and entrepreneurial skillsets of the ITU students. This community of practice enabled participants to experiment with various tools used in innovation, engaging with an online learning environment that encourages individuals to learn more, and socializing with fellow students in the online semester. In addition to the team project, she also lead LetsInnomind Program, which is an interface program for student-industry collaboration aims to enhance the connection between student project teams and industry and encouraging them to co-create.

The courses and campus activities fueled her enthusiasm for project development and creating an impact for a sustainable future. Her research interests are university-industry collaboration, ecosystem building, product development, and organizational behavior. She also rejoices in reading about archeology and history, listening to various genres, and trying different cuisines.

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinzmliy LinkedIn]

[https://www.instagram.com/selinlul/ Instagram]

[https://twitter.com/selinlul Twitter]

[[Category:Istanbul Technical University (2020 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

{{CatTree|Istanbul Technical University}}

Fellow:Selin Yilmaz

2022-04-05T22:26:27Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Social media profiles */

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==Bio==
Selin Yilmaz was born in Istanbul and raised in Antalya. Completing her education till university in there, she started her higher education back in Istanbul. She is currently a senior student at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) studying Management Engineering.

Selin took an active role in ITU Management Engineering Club and took part in the kitchen of the 10th Information Technologies Summit and the 19th Management Sciences Congress. She also took part in the organization and finance team of the “Layers” themed TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity conference. Through the processes, she learned about student club dynamics and how tiring but also fun organizing an event is.

Selin is also a fellow in Fire-Up Changemakers Program, which aims to build a student community that will create change on campus, focusing on developing students’ entrepreneurship and social innovation skills, and introduced her to the University Innovation Fellows Program. Since March 2020, Selin has been working as an undergraduate research assistant in one of the European Commission's Knowledge Alliance projects called Boundary Spanners, which focusses on the role of boundary spanners in removing barriers of university-industry cooperation.

As a University Innovation Fellow, Selin co-created ITU Learning Community, an online learning community at the campus to strengthen the innovative and entrepreneurial skillsets of the ITU students. This community of practice enabled participants to experiment with various tools used in innovation, engaging with an online learning environment that encourages individuals to learn more, and socializing with fellow students in the online semester.

She is also working on an interface program for student-industry collaboration, which aims to enhance the connection between student project teams and industry and encouraging them to co-create.

The courses and campus activities fueled her enthusiasm for project development and creating an impact for a sustainable future. Her research interests are university-industry collaboration, ecosystem building, product development, and organizational behavior. She also rejoices in reading about archeology and history, listening to various genres, and trying different cuisines.

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinzmliy LinkedIn]

[https://www.instagram.com/selinlul/ Instagram]

[https://twitter.com/selinlul Twitter]

[[Category:Istanbul Technical University (2020 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

{{CatTree|Istanbul Technical University}}

Fellow:Selin Yilmaz

2021-06-03T03:27:36Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Bio */

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==Bio==
Selin Yilmaz was born in Istanbul and raised in Antalya. Completing her education till university in there, she started her higher education back in Istanbul. She is currently a senior student at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) studying Management Engineering.

Selin took an active role in ITU Management Engineering Club and took part in the kitchen of the 10th Information Technologies Summit and the 19th Management Sciences Congress. She also took part in the organization and finance team of the “Layers” themed TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity conference. Through the processes, she learned about student club dynamics and how tiring but also fun organizing an event is.

Selin is also a fellow in Fire-Up Changemakers Program, which aims to build a student community that will create change on campus, focusing on developing students’ entrepreneurship and social innovation skills, and introduced her to the University Innovation Fellows Program. Since March 2020, Selin has been working as an undergraduate research assistant in one of the European Commission's Knowledge Alliance projects called Boundary Spanners, which focusses on the role of boundary spanners in removing barriers of university-industry cooperation.

As a University Innovation Fellow, Selin co-created ITU Learning Community, an online learning community at the campus to strengthen the innovative and entrepreneurial skillsets of the ITU students. This community of practice enabled participants to experiment with various tools used in innovation, engaging with an online learning environment that encourages individuals to learn more, and socializing with fellow students in the online semester.

She is also working on an interface program for student-industry collaboration, which aims to enhance the connection between student project teams and industry and encouraging them to co-create.

The courses and campus activities fueled her enthusiasm for project development and creating an impact for a sustainable future. Her research interests are university-industry collaboration, ecosystem building, product development, and organizational behavior. She also rejoices in reading about archeology and history, listening to various genres, and trying different cuisines.

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinzmliy LinkedIn]

[https://www.instagram.com/selinlul/ Instagram]

[[Category:Istanbul Technical University (2020 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

{{CatTree|Istanbul Technical University}}

Fellow:Selin Yilmaz

2021-06-03T03:27:01Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Bio */

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==Bio==
Selin Yilmaz was born in Istanbul and raised in Antalya. Completing her education till university in there, she started her higher education back in Istanbul. She is currently a senior student at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) studying Management Engineering.

Selin took an active role in ITU Management Engineering Club and took part in the kitchen of the 10th Information Technologies Summit and the 19th Management Sciences Congress. She also took part in the organization and finance team of the “Layers” themed TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity conference. Through the processes, she learned about student club dynamics and how tiring but also fun organizing an event is.

Selin is also a fellow in Fire-Up Changemakers Program, which aims to build a student community that will create change on campus, focusing on developing students’ entrepreneurship and social innovation skills, and introduced her to the University Innovation Fellows Program. Since March 2020, Selin has been working as an undergraduate research assistant in one of the European Commission's Knowledge Alliance projects called Boundary Spanners, which focusses on the role of boundary spanners in removing barriers of university-industry cooperation.

As a University Innovation Fellow, Selin co-created ITU Learning Community, an online learning community at the campus to strengthen the innovative and entrepreneurial skillsets of the ITU students. This community of practice enabled participants to experiment with various tools used in innovation, engaging with an online learning environment that encourages individuals to learn more, and socializing with fellow students in the online semester.

She is also working on an interface program for student-industry collaboration, which aims to enhance the connection between students and industry and encouraging them to co-create.

The courses and campus activities fueled her enthusiasm for project development and creating an impact for a sustainable future. Her research interests are university-industry collaboration, ecosystem building, product development, and organizational behavior. She also rejoices in reading about archeology and history, listening to various genres, and trying different cuisines.

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinzmliy LinkedIn]

[https://www.instagram.com/selinlul/ Instagram]

[[Category:Istanbul Technical University (2020 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

{{CatTree|Istanbul Technical University}}

Priorities:Istanbul Technical University Student Priorities

2020-11-15T22:49:40Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Project #0: Introduction to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program: */

== <big>'''2020 Cohort | Student Priorities'''</big> ==

==== <big>'''2020 Cohort | Change Story'''</big> ====
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=IkuZFS1WSl0}}

=== <big>'''Project #0: Learning Community Program:'''</big> ===

Main Project of the 2020 Fall cohort of Istanbul Technical University

'''''People in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik, Selenay Sonay Tufan, Selin Yılmaz, and Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====

'''The roadmap of the certificate program to be organized within the created ITU Innovation Mission is as follows:'''

# Firstly, the student shares his / her problem and solution proposal on the topic of the month from the platform.
#
# Selected ones meeting on the same denominator are grouped in Discord servers, thus creating learning circles.
#
# In the learning circles, readings and brainstorms on the main topics are carried out every week. Basic knowledge is fed by various Coursera training according to its denominators.
#
# Thanks to the mentors from the upper classes assigned to the groups, newcomers in the circle get to know the university culture and start drawing their roadmaps. In addition, tasks to be completed are assigned based on peer review learning nutrition.
#
# With sector talks (Tuesday Talks), which will be held regularly and Failure Week, sector recognition and networking are provided and university-industry cooperation is strengthened.
#
# Groups that want to move their projects to the start-up phase can be included in Tough Nut Innovation Camp (Optional).
#
# Students who actively complete the tasks assigned in the certificate program are invited to the Fire Up Change Pioneers Program.
#
# Students who have successfully completed the Fire Up process and selected through interviews will be introduced as a candidate cohort for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program.

=== <big>'''Project #1: Forming a Project Teams Unit @ Istanbul Technical University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selin Yılmaz

==== '''Project Details''' ====

There are 22 student project teams at Istanbul Technical University. They develop several projects that are enhanced with original design understanding, innovative and intelligent solutions, and aim to represent our country and our school in the best way by taking its place in the competition every year. Even though the teams have academic counselors, there is not a specific unit to be interface in their technology transfer process. To strengthen their connection with the industry, the project aims to establish an interface structure in the university which informs teams about the intellectual property law, patent procedures, and strategy development.

=== <big>'''Project #2: Creating a Solution for the Socialization Problem of University Students:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selenay Sonay Tufan

==== '''Project Details''' ====

Our university is Turkey's first technical university and ITU has achieved success with its students and academic staff since 1773. However, when I examined the expectations of students from a school in my interviews, I realized that besides academic success, social life is also indispensable for students. Most of the students were not satisfied with the social life of our university, and they said that this issue got worse during the pandemic period. And I chose this project to develop and improve this issue. The basis of this project is to solve the socialization problem of ITU students.

The project I want to do to solve this issue is to organize activities that will enable students to meet each other and make good friendships. I think such activities will greatly increase the motivation of the student, especially in this period when we continue online education. In these socialization activities that I will carry out, I aim for every student to learn useful information as well as socializing. This learned knowledge can be an inspirational conversation, interesting research, or entrepreneurship training. Moreover, I think there is no limit to the information that can be shared. These socializing and meeting activities that I want to do online in the online term, can also be done face to face after the pandemic process. I hope these events to be organized will be included in ITU culture over the years and become one of the most anticipated events.

=== <big>'''Project #3: Improving the Feedback System of the University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik

==== '''Project Details''' ====

On-campus, lots of problems or complaints about school, life, education style or the world problems are as normal as all around the world. But specifically in ITU, we have a “Support Ticket System” about the lectures and general ideas about the school itself. Along with the research that we made and also personal experiences this kind of application students do not feel so comfortable because of this button connected to the school management and there is always a question about “Is my comment will be effective on my education treatment?” and we started from here to pop these bubbles and negativity in students' minds and turn these negative impacts to new brief innovation and entrepreneurship forest. Alright hun, “How Are We Going To Do This Real?”

Here are the steps:

Firstly, every month through some free apps and site questions will be uploaded to these connections which every type of student who is part of the campus and the ITU will have a brief word to mention.
Secondly, these people will be involved in a process in which a group of tasks will be given and expect these students to finish their responsible parts. In this way, they asked to be completed a course on “Coursera” which will increase their type of creativity and engagement.
Thirdly, according to the process, students who finished their tasks actively on the due date will be connected to another innovation project called Fire-Up Changemakers Program.
Fourth, after all these assumptions students will get into the UIF Programme.

In general, the idea is to involve students in innovation and entrepreneurship through specific problem sessions.

=== <big>'''Project #4: Innovation Discourse of the Istanbul Technical University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====

According to observations and 1-1 interview insights, my team and I released that people need to work together and a common perspective and approach to creating value in a manner. That's why we designed the first project as a workshop chain. With the workshops, we supply people an opportunity to join a participatory platform and create value with different, unfamiliar people.

So, what will they do? They will state the ITU Innovation Discourse. They will help people to adapt and to take action according to discourse thanks to workshops facilitated. '''After the conceptual acceptance''', we will organize adaptation meetings to carry the innovation discourse into the daily workflow and turn it into concrete outputs. We will ensure that the relationship between the vision and strategy of the organization with the statement is clarified.

{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Student Priorities]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

Priorities:Istanbul Technical University Student Priorities

2020-11-15T22:49:01Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Project #1: Forming a Project Teams Unit @ Technology Transfer Office: */

== <big>'''2020 Cohort | Student Priorities'''</big> ==

==== <big>'''2020 Cohort | Change Story'''</big> ====
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=IkuZFS1WSl0}}

=== <big>'''Project #0: Introduction to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program:'''</big> ===

Main Project of the 2020 Fall cohort of Istanbul Technical University

'''''People in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik, Selenay Sonay Tufan, Selin Yılmaz, and Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====

'''The roadmap of the certificate program to be organized within the created ITU Innovation Mission is as follows:'''

# Firstly, the student shares his / her problem and solution proposal on the topic of the month from the platform.
#
# Selected ones meeting on the same denominator are grouped in Discord servers, thus creating learning circles.
#
# In the learning circles, readings and brainstorms on the main topics are carried out every week. Basic knowledge is fed by various Coursera training according to its denominators.
#
# Thanks to the mentors from the upper classes assigned to the groups, newcomers in the circle get to know the university culture and start drawing their roadmaps. In addition, tasks to be completed are assigned based on peer review learning nutrition.
#
# With sector talks (Tuesday Talks), which will be held regularly and Failure Week, sector recognition and networking are provided and university-industry cooperation is strengthened.
#
# Groups that want to move their projects to the start-up phase can be included in Tough Nut Innovation Camp (Optional).
#
# Students who actively complete the tasks assigned in the certificate program are invited to the Fire Up Change Pioneers Program.
#
# Students who have successfully completed the Fire Up process and selected through interviews will be introduced as a candidate cohort for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program.

=== <big>'''Project #1: Forming a Project Teams Unit @ Istanbul Technical University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selin Yılmaz

==== '''Project Details''' ====

There are 22 student project teams at Istanbul Technical University. They develop several projects that are enhanced with original design understanding, innovative and intelligent solutions, and aim to represent our country and our school in the best way by taking its place in the competition every year. Even though the teams have academic counselors, there is not a specific unit to be interface in their technology transfer process. To strengthen their connection with the industry, the project aims to establish an interface structure in the university which informs teams about the intellectual property law, patent procedures, and strategy development.

=== <big>'''Project #2: Creating a Solution for the Socialization Problem of University Students:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selenay Sonay Tufan

==== '''Project Details''' ====

Our university is Turkey's first technical university and ITU has achieved success with its students and academic staff since 1773. However, when I examined the expectations of students from a school in my interviews, I realized that besides academic success, social life is also indispensable for students. Most of the students were not satisfied with the social life of our university, and they said that this issue got worse during the pandemic period. And I chose this project to develop and improve this issue. The basis of this project is to solve the socialization problem of ITU students.

The project I want to do to solve this issue is to organize activities that will enable students to meet each other and make good friendships. I think such activities will greatly increase the motivation of the student, especially in this period when we continue online education. In these socialization activities that I will carry out, I aim for every student to learn useful information as well as socializing. This learned knowledge can be an inspirational conversation, interesting research, or entrepreneurship training. Moreover, I think there is no limit to the information that can be shared. These socializing and meeting activities that I want to do online in the online term, can also be done face to face after the pandemic process. I hope these events to be organized will be included in ITU culture over the years and become one of the most anticipated events.

=== <big>'''Project #3: Improving the Feedback System of the University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik

==== '''Project Details''' ====

On-campus, lots of problems or complaints about school, life, education style or the world problems are as normal as all around the world. But specifically in ITU, we have a “Support Ticket System” about the lectures and general ideas about the school itself. Along with the research that we made and also personal experiences this kind of application students do not feel so comfortable because of this button connected to the school management and there is always a question about “Is my comment will be effective on my education treatment?” and we started from here to pop these bubbles and negativity in students' minds and turn these negative impacts to new brief innovation and entrepreneurship forest. Alright hun, “How Are We Going To Do This Real?”

Here are the steps:

Firstly, every month through some free apps and site questions will be uploaded to these connections which every type of student who is part of the campus and the ITU will have a brief word to mention.
Secondly, these people will be involved in a process in which a group of tasks will be given and expect these students to finish their responsible parts. In this way, they asked to be completed a course on “Coursera” which will increase their type of creativity and engagement.
Thirdly, according to the process, students who finished their tasks actively on the due date will be connected to another innovation project called Fire-Up Changemakers Program.
Fourth, after all these assumptions students will get into the UIF Programme.

In general, the idea is to involve students in innovation and entrepreneurship through specific problem sessions.

=== <big>'''Project #4: Innovation Discourse of the Istanbul Technical University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====

According to observations and 1-1 interview insights, my team and I released that people need to work together and a common perspective and approach to creating value in a manner. That's why we designed the first project as a workshop chain. With the workshops, we supply people an opportunity to join a participatory platform and create value with different, unfamiliar people.

So, what will they do? They will state the ITU Innovation Discourse. They will help people to adapt and to take action according to discourse thanks to workshops facilitated. '''After the conceptual acceptance''', we will organize adaptation meetings to carry the innovation discourse into the daily workflow and turn it into concrete outputs. We will ensure that the relationship between the vision and strategy of the organization with the statement is clarified.

{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Student Priorities]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

Priorities:Istanbul Technical University Student Priorities

2020-10-15T19:27:59Z

Selinyilmaz: /* 2020 Cohort | Student Priorities */

== <big>'''2020 Cohort | Student Priorities'''</big> ==

==== <big>'''2020 Cohort | Change Story'''</big> ====
{{#Widget:Youtube|id=IkuZFS1WSl0}}

=== <big>'''Project #0: Introduction to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program:'''</big> ===

Main Project of the 2020 Fall cohort of Istanbul Technical University

'''''People in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik, Selenay Sonay Tufan, Selin Yılmaz, and Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====

'''The roadmap of the certificate program to be organized within the created ITU Innovation Mission is as follows:'''

# Firstly, the student shares his / her problem and solution proposal on the topic of the month from the platform.
#
# Selected ones meeting on the same denominator are grouped in Discord servers, thus creating learning circles.
#
# In the learning circles, readings and brainstorms on the main topics are carried out every week. Basic knowledge is fed by various Coursera training according to its denominators.
#
# Thanks to the mentors from the upper classes assigned to the groups, newcomers in the circle get to know the university culture and start drawing their roadmaps. In addition, tasks to be completed are assigned based on peer review learning nutrition.
#
# With sector talks (Tuesday Talks), which will be held regularly and Failure Week, sector recognition and networking are provided and university-industry cooperation is strengthened.
#
# Groups that want to move their projects to the start-up phase can be included in Tough Nut Innovation Camp (Optional).
#
# Students who actively complete the tasks assigned in the certificate program are invited to the Fire Up Change Pioneers Program.
#
# Students who have successfully completed the Fire Up process and selected through interviews will be introduced as a candidate cohort for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program.

=== <big>'''Project #1: Forming a Project Teams Unit @ Technology Transfer Office:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selin Yılmaz

==== '''Project Details''' ====

There are 22 student project teams at Istanbul Technical University. They develop several projects that are enhanced with original design understanding, innovative and intelligent solutions, and aim to represent our country and our school in the best way by taking its place in the competition every year. Even though the teams have academic counselors, there is not a specific unit to be interface in their technology transfer process.To strengthen their connection with the industry, the project aims to establish an interface structure in the technology transfer office which informs teams about the intellectual property law, patent procedures, and strategy development.

=== <big>'''Project #2: Creating a Solution for the Socialization Problem of University Students:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selenay Sonay Tufan

==== '''Project Details''' ====

Our university is Turkey's first technical university and ITU has achieved success with its students and academic staff since 1773. However, when I examined the expectations of students from a school in my interviews, I realized that besides academic success, social life is also indispensable for students. Most of the students were not satisfied with the social life of our university, and they said that this issue got worse during the pandemic period. And I chose this project to develop and improve this issue. The basis of this project is to solve the socialization problem of ITU students.

The project I want to do to solve this issue is to organize activities that will enable students to meet each other and make good friendships. I think such activities will greatly increase the motivation of the student, especially in this period when we continue online education. In these socialization activities that I will carry out, I aim for every student to learn useful information as well as socializing. This learned knowledge can be an inspirational conversation, interesting research, or entrepreneurship training. Moreover, I think there is no limit to the information that can be shared. These socializing and meeting activities that I want to do online in the online term, can also be done face to face after the pandemic process. I hope these events to be organized will be included in ITU culture over the years and become one of the most anticipated events.

=== <big>'''Project #3: Improving the Feedback System of the University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik

==== '''Project Details''' ====

On-campus, lots of problems or complaints about school, life, education style or the world problems are as normal as all around the world. But specifically in ITU, we have a “Support Ticket System” about the lectures and general ideas about the school itself. Along with the research that we made and also personal experiences this kind of application students do not feel so comfortable because of this button connected to the school management and there is always a question about “Is my comment will be effective on my education treatment?” and we started from here to pop these bubbles and negativity in students' minds and turn these negative impacts to new brief innovation and entrepreneurship forest. Alright hun, “How Are We Going To Do This Real?”

Here are the steps:

Firstly, every month through some free apps and site questions will be uploaded to these connections which every type of student who is part of the campus and the ITU will have a brief word to mention.
Secondly, these people will be involved in a process in which a group of tasks will be given and expect these students to finish their responsible parts. In this way, they asked to be completed a course on “Coursera” which will increase their type of creativity and engagement.
Thirdly, according to the process, students who finished their tasks actively on the due date will be connected to another innovation project called Fire-Up Changemakers Program.
Fourth, after all these assumptions students will get into the UIF Programme.

In general, the idea is to involve students in innovation and entrepreneurship through specific problem sessions.

=== <big>'''Project #4: Innovation Discourse of the Istanbul Technical University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====


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2020-10-15T19:26:07Z

Selinyilmaz: /* 2020 Cohort | Student Priorities */

== <big>'''2020 Cohort | Student Priorities'''</big> ==

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=== <big>'''Project #0: Introduction to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program:'''</big> ===

Main Project of the 2020 Fall cohort of Istanbul Technical University

'''''People in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik, Selenay Sonay Tufan, Selin Yılmaz, and Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====

'''The roadmap of the certificate program to be organized within the created ITU Innovation Mission is as follows:'''

# Firstly, the student shares his / her problem and solution proposal on the topic of the month from the platform.
#
# Selected ones meeting on the same denominator are grouped in Discord servers, thus creating learning circles.
#
# In the learning circles, readings and brainstorms on the main topics are carried out every week. Basic knowledge is fed by various Coursera training according to its denominators.
#
# Thanks to the mentors from the upper classes assigned to the groups, newcomers in the circle get to know the university culture and start drawing their roadmaps. In addition, tasks to be completed are assigned based on peer review learning nutrition.
#
# With sector talks (Tuesday Talks), which will be held regularly and Failure Week, sector recognition and networking are provided and university-industry cooperation is strengthened.
#
# Groups that want to move their projects to the start-up phase can be included in Tough Nut Innovation Camp (Optional).
#
# Students who actively complete the tasks assigned in the certificate program are invited to the Fire Up Change Pioneers Program.
#
# Students who have successfully completed the Fire Up process and selected through interviews will be introduced as a candidate cohort for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program.

=== <big>'''Project #1: Forming a Project Teams Unit @ Technology Transfer Office:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selin Yılmaz

==== '''Project Details''' ====

There are 22 student project teams at Istanbul Technical University. They develop several projects that are enhanced with original design understanding, innovative and intelligent solutions, and aim to represent our country and our school in the best way by taking its place in the competition every year. Even though the teams have academic counselors, there is not a specific unit to be interface in their technology transfer process.To strengthen their connection with the industry, the project aims to establish an interface structure in the technology transfer office which informs teams about the intellectual property law, patent procedures, and strategy development.

=== <big>'''Project #2: Creating a Solution for the Socialization Problem of University Students:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selenay Sonay Tufan

==== '''Project Details''' ====

Our university is Turkey's first technical university and ITU has achieved success with its students and academic staff since 1773. However, when I examined the expectations of students from a school in my interviews, I realized that besides academic success, social life is also indispensable for students. Most of the students were not satisfied with the social life of our university, and they said that this issue got worse during the pandemic period. And I chose this project to develop and improve this issue. The basis of this project is to solve the socialization problem of ITU students.

The project I want to do to solve this issue is to organize activities that will enable students to meet each other and make good friendships. I think such activities will greatly increase the motivation of the student, especially in this period when we continue online education. In these socialization activities that I will carry out, I aim for every student to learn useful information as well as socializing. This learned knowledge can be an inspirational conversation, interesting research, or entrepreneurship training. Moreover, I think there is no limit to the information that can be shared. These socializing and meeting activities that I want to do online in the online term, can also be done face to face after the pandemic process. I hope these events to be organized will be included in ITU culture over the years and become one of the most anticipated events.

=== <big>'''Project #3: Improving the Feedback System of the University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik

==== '''Project Details''' ====

On-campus, lots of problems or complaints about school, life, education style or the world problems are as normal as all around the world. But specifically in ITU, we have a “Support Ticket System” about the lectures and general ideas about the school itself. Along with the research that we made and also personal experiences this kind of application students do not feel so comfortable because of this button connected to the school management and there is always a question about “Is my comment will be effective on my education treatment?” and we started from here to pop these bubbles and negativity in students' minds and turn these negative impacts to new brief innovation and entrepreneurship forest. Alright hun, “How Are We Going To Do This Real?”

Here are the steps:

Firstly, every month through some free apps and site questions will be uploaded to these connections which every type of student who is part of the campus and the ITU will have a brief word to mention.
Secondly, these people will be involved in a process in which a group of tasks will be given and expect these students to finish their responsible parts. In this way, they asked to be completed a course on “Coursera” which will increase their type of creativity and engagement.
Thirdly, according to the process, students who finished their tasks actively on the due date will be connected to another innovation project called Fire-Up Changemakers Program.
Fourth, after all these assumptions students will get into the UIF Programme.

In general, the idea is to involve students in innovation and entrepreneurship through specific problem sessions.

=== <big>'''Project #4: Innovation Discourse of the Istanbul Technical University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====


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Priorities:Istanbul Technical University Student Priorities

2020-09-29T18:18:15Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Project Details */

== <big>'''2020 Cohort | Student Priorities'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Project #0: Introduction to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program:'''</big> ===

Main Project of the 2020 Fall cohort of Istanbul Technical University

'''''People in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik, Selenay Sonay Tufan, Selin Yılmaz, and Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====

'''The roadmap of the certificate program to be organized within the created ITU Innovation Mission is as follows:'''

# Firstly, the student shares his / her problem and solution proposal on the topic of the month from the platform.
#
# Selected ones meeting on the same denominator are grouped in Discord servers, thus creating learning circles.
#
# In the learning circles, readings and brainstorms on the main topics are carried out every week. Basic knowledge is fed by various Coursera training according to its denominators.
#
# Thanks to the mentors from the upper classes assigned to the groups, newcomers in the circle get to know the university culture and start drawing their roadmaps. In addition, tasks to be completed are assigned based on peer review learning nutrition.
#
# With sector talks (Tuesday Talks), which will be held regularly and Failure Week, sector recognition and networking are provided and university-industry cooperation is strengthened.
#
# Groups that want to move their projects to the start-up phase can be included in Tough Nut Innovation Camp (Optional).
#
# Students who actively complete the tasks assigned in the certificate program are invited to the Fire Up Change Pioneers Program.
#
# Students who have successfully completed the Fire Up process and selected through interviews will be introduced as a candidate cohort for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program.

=== <big>'''Project #1: Forming a Project Teams Unit @ Technology Transfer Office:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selin Yılmaz

==== '''Project Details''' ====

There are 22 student project teams at Istanbul Technical University. They develop several projects that are enhanced with original design understanding, innovative and intelligent solutions, and aim to represent our country and our school in the best way by taking its place in the competition every year. Even though the teams have academic counselors, there is not a specific unit to be interface in their technology transfer process.To strengthen their connection with the industry, the project aims to establish an interface structure in the technology transfer office which informs teams about the intellectual property law, patent procedures, and strategy development.

=== <big>'''Project #2: Creating a Solution for the Socialization Problem of University Students:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selenay Sonay Tufan

==== '''Project Details''' ====

Our university is Turkey's first technical university and ITU has achieved success with its students and academic staff since 1773. However, when I examined the expectations of students from a school in my interviews, I realized that besides academic success, social life is also indispensable for students. Most of the students were not satisfied with the social life of our university, and they said that this issue got worse during the pandemic period. And I chose this project to develop and improve this issue. The basis of this project is to solve the socialization problem of ITU students.

The project I want to do to solve this issue is to organize activities that will enable students to meet each other and make good friendships. I think such activities will greatly increase the motivation of the student, especially in this period when we continue online education. In these socialization activities that I will carry out, I aim for every student to learn useful information as well as socializing. This learned knowledge can be an inspirational conversation, interesting research, or entrepreneurship training. Moreover, I think there is no limit to the information that can be shared. These socializing and meeting activities that I want to do online in the online term, can also be done face to face after the pandemic process. I hope these events to be organized will be included in ITU culture over the years and become one of the most anticipated events.

=== <big>'''Project #3: Improving the Feedback System of the University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik

==== '''Project Details''' ====

On-campus, lots of problems or complaints about school, life, education style or the world problems are as normal as all around the world. But specifically in ITU, we have a “Support Ticket System” about the lectures and general ideas about the school itself. Along with the research that we made and also personal experiences this kind of application students do not feel so comfortable because of this button connected to the school management and there is always a question about “Is my comment will be effective on my education treatment?” and we started from here to pop these bubbles and negativity in students' minds and turn these negative impacts to new brief innovation and entrepreneurship forest. Alright hun, “How Are We Going To Do This Real?”

Here are the steps:

Firstly, every month through some free apps and site questions will be uploaded to these connections which every type of student who is part of the campus and the ITU will have a brief word to mention.
Secondly, these people will be involved in a process in which a group of tasks will be given and expect these students to finish their responsible parts. In this way, they asked to be completed a course on “Coursera” which will increase their type of creativity and engagement.
Thirdly, according to the process, students who finished their tasks actively on the due date will be connected to another innovation project called Fire-Up Changemakers Program.
Fourth, after all these assumptions students will get into the UIF Programme.

In general, the idea is to involve students in innovation and entrepreneurship through specific problem sessions.

=== <big>'''Project #4: Innovation Discourse of the Istanbul Technical University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====


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School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-29T18:06:28Z

Selinyilmaz: /* How to Workshops */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/03/05/default-calendar/tuseday-talks-big-bang-2019-women ITU GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:]''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''[http://www.enstitu.ieeetrsb.org/pec-events/girisimci-sohbetleri/ Entrepreneur Chats]:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

'''[http://www.failureweek.org/ Failure Week:]''' Failure Week was organized by the collaboration of ITU GİNOVA and ITU Entrepreneurship Club with the motto of "Ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better". In Failure Week, inspiring people, entertaining games, workshops, competitions, and failure stories met with the participants. Up to now, it has been prepared three times, and hopefully, the fourth one will be in March 2021.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2020/01/14/fire-up-announcement Fire-Up Changemakers Program:]''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''[http://www.dijifikir.org Dijifikir / ''DigIdea'':]''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2019/10/24/elevator-pitch-is-over Presentation Workshop and Presentation Competition / Elevator Pitch:]''' This competition is organized by ITU GİNOVA to give students the ability to express their ideas easily in a short time and to improve their presentation skills. ITU students applying for the competition are trained in the pre-competition presentation workshop to express their ideas in a short time. After this training, a pre-selection is carried out and the students who pass the pre-selection are entitled to participate in the final. In the final, students are asked to present their business ideas by making a presentation in 90 seconds, and awards are given to the students who rank.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/02/20/default-calendar/startup-huddle-istanbul-february-event Startup Huddle Istanbul:]''' Startup Huddle is an international program of the Global Entrepreneurship Network(GEN), which has 10 million members with 20,000 partners in 160 different countries. Startup Huddle events are organized only in the ITU GİNOVA in Turkey. Each month, one or two early-stage startups find the opportunity to make a presentation on the Startup Huddle and they can get feedback from other entrepreneurs, mentors, and participants. Each presentation takes 6 minutes and followed by 20 minutes of the feedback section. The aim of the program is to develop local entrepreneurs and strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''[http://ituemk.org/12-ucari UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':]''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]


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School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-29T18:06:09Z

Selinyilmaz: /* How to Workshops */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/03/05/default-calendar/tuseday-talks-big-bang-2019-women ITU GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:]''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''[http://www.enstitu.ieeetrsb.org/pec-events/girisimci-sohbetleri/ Entrepreneur Chats]:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

'''[http://www.failureweek.org/ Failure Week:]''' Failure Week which was organized by the collaboration of ITU GİNOVA and ITU Entrepreneurship Club with the motto of "Ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better". In Failure Week, inspiring people, entertaining games, workshops, competitions, and failure stories met with the participants. Up to now, it has been prepared three times, and hopefully, the fourth one will be in March 2021.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2020/01/14/fire-up-announcement Fire-Up Changemakers Program:]''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''[http://www.dijifikir.org Dijifikir / ''DigIdea'':]''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2019/10/24/elevator-pitch-is-over Presentation Workshop and Presentation Competition / Elevator Pitch:]''' This competition is organized by ITU GİNOVA to give students the ability to express their ideas easily in a short time and to improve their presentation skills. ITU students applying for the competition are trained in the pre-competition presentation workshop to express their ideas in a short time. After this training, a pre-selection is carried out and the students who pass the pre-selection are entitled to participate in the final. In the final, students are asked to present their business ideas by making a presentation in 90 seconds, and awards are given to the students who rank.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/02/20/default-calendar/startup-huddle-istanbul-february-event Startup Huddle Istanbul:]''' Startup Huddle is an international program of the Global Entrepreneurship Network(GEN), which has 10 million members with 20,000 partners in 160 different countries. Startup Huddle events are organized only in the ITU GİNOVA in Turkey. Each month, one or two early-stage startups find the opportunity to make a presentation on the Startup Huddle and they can get feedback from other entrepreneurs, mentors, and participants. Each presentation takes 6 minutes and followed by 20 minutes of the feedback section. The aim of the program is to develop local entrepreneurs and strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''[http://ituemk.org/12-ucari UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':]''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-29T18:05:09Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Competitions */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/03/05/default-calendar/tuseday-talks-big-bang-2019-women ITU GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:]''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''[http://www.enstitu.ieeetrsb.org/pec-events/girisimci-sohbetleri/ Entrepreneur Chats]:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

'''[http://www.failureweek.org/ Failure Week:]''' Failure Week which was organized with the motto of "Ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better". In Failure Week, inspiring people, entertaining games, workshops, competitions, and failure stories met with the participants. Up to now, it has been prepared three times, and hopefully, the fourth one will be in March 2021.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2020/01/14/fire-up-announcement Fire-Up Changemakers Program:]''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''[http://www.dijifikir.org Dijifikir / ''DigIdea'':]''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2019/10/24/elevator-pitch-is-over Presentation Workshop and Presentation Competition / Elevator Pitch:]''' This competition is organized by ITU GİNOVA to give students the ability to express their ideas easily in a short time and to improve their presentation skills. ITU students applying for the competition are trained in the pre-competition presentation workshop to express their ideas in a short time. After this training, a pre-selection is carried out and the students who pass the pre-selection are entitled to participate in the final. In the final, students are asked to present their business ideas by making a presentation in 90 seconds, and awards are given to the students who rank.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/02/20/default-calendar/startup-huddle-istanbul-february-event Startup Huddle Istanbul:]''' Startup Huddle is an international program of the Global Entrepreneurship Network(GEN), which has 10 million members with 20,000 partners in 160 different countries. Startup Huddle events are organized only in the ITU GİNOVA in Turkey. Each month, one or two early-stage startups find the opportunity to make a presentation on the Startup Huddle and they can get feedback from other entrepreneurs, mentors, and participants. Each presentation takes 6 minutes and followed by 20 minutes of the feedback section. The aim of the program is to develop local entrepreneurs and strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''[http://ituemk.org/12-ucari UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':]''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-29T18:02:04Z

Selinyilmaz: /* How to Workshops */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/03/05/default-calendar/tuseday-talks-big-bang-2019-women ITU GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:]''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''[http://www.enstitu.ieeetrsb.org/pec-events/girisimci-sohbetleri/ Entrepreneur Chats]:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

'''[http://www.failureweek.org/ Failure Week:]''' Failure Week which was organized with the motto of "Ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better". In Failure Week, inspiring people, entertaining games, workshops, competitions, and failure stories met with the participants. Up to now, it has been prepared three times, and hopefully, the fourth one will be in March 2021.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2020/01/14/fire-up-announcement Fire-Up Changemakers Program:]''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''[http://www.dijifikir.org Dijifikir / ''DigIdea'':]''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2019/10/24/elevator-pitch-is-over Presentation Workshop and Presentation Competition / Elevator Pitch:]''' This competition is organized to give students the ability to express their ideas easily in a short time and to improve their presentation skills. ITU students applying for the competition are trained in the pre-competition presentation workshop to express their ideas in a short time. After this training, a pre-selection is carried out and the students who pass the pre-selection are entitled to participate in the final. In the final, students are asked to present their business ideas by making a presentation in 90 seconds, and awards are given to the students who rank.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/02/20/default-calendar/startup-huddle-istanbul-february-event Startup Huddle Istanbul:]''' Startup Huddle is an international program of the Global Entrepreneurship Network(GEN), which has 10 million members with 20,000 partners in 160 different countries. Startup Huddle events are organized only in the ITU GİNOVA in Turkey. Each month, one or two early-stage startups find the opportunity to make a presentation on the Startup Huddle and they can get feedback from other entrepreneurs, mentors, and participants. Each presentation takes 6 minutes and followed by 20 minutes of the feedback section. The aim of the program is to develop local entrepreneurs and strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''[http://ituemk.org/12-ucari UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':]''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-29T17:59:36Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Competitions */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''İTÜ GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''[http://www.enstitu.ieeetrsb.org/pec-events/girisimci-sohbetleri/ Entrepreneur Chats]:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

'''[http://www.failureweek.org/ Failure Week:]''' Failure Week which was organized with the motto of "Ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better". In Failure Week, inspiring people, entertaining games, workshops, competitions, and failure stories met with the participants. Up to now, it has been prepared three times, and hopefully, the fourth one will be in March 2021.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2020/01/14/fire-up-announcement Fire-Up Changemakers Program:]''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''[http://www.dijifikir.org Dijifikir / ''DigIdea'':]''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2019/10/24/elevator-pitch-is-over Presentation Workshop and Presentation Competition / Elevator Pitch:]''' This competition is organized to give students the ability to express their ideas easily in a short time and to improve their presentation skills. ITU students applying for the competition are trained in the pre-competition presentation workshop to express their ideas in a short time. After this training, a pre-selection is carried out and the students who pass the pre-selection are entitled to participate in the final. In the final, students are asked to present their business ideas by making a presentation in 90 seconds, and awards are given to the students who rank.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/02/20/default-calendar/startup-huddle-istanbul-february-event Startup Huddle Istanbul:]''' Startup Huddle is an international program of the Global Entrepreneurship Network(GEN), which has 10 million members with 20,000 partners in 160 different countries. Startup Huddle events are organized only in the ITU GİNOVA in Turkey. Each month, one or two early-stage startups find the opportunity to make a presentation on the Startup Huddle and they can get feedback from other entrepreneurs, mentors, and participants. Each presentation takes 6 minutes and followed by 20 minutes of the feedback section. The aim of the program is to develop local entrepreneurs and strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''[http://ituemk.org/12-ucari UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':]''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-29T17:58:56Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Competitions */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''İTÜ GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''[http://www.enstitu.ieeetrsb.org/pec-events/girisimci-sohbetleri/ Entrepreneur Chats]:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

'''[http://www.failureweek.org/ Failure Week:]''' Failure Week which was organized with the motto of "Ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better". In Failure Week, inspiring people, entertaining games, workshops, competitions, and failure stories met with the participants. Up to now, it has been prepared three times, and hopefully, the fourth one will be in March 2021.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2020/01/14/fire-up-announcement Fire-Up Changemakers Program:]''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''[http://www.dijifikir.org Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':]''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/news/2019/10/24/elevator-pitch-is-over Presentation Workshop and Presentation Competition/Elevator Pitch:]''' This competition is organized to give students the ability to express their ideas easily in a short time and to improve their presentation skills. ITU students applying for the competition are trained in the pre-competition presentation workshop to express their ideas in a short time. After this training, a pre-selection is carried out and the students who pass the pre-selection are entitled to participate in the final. In the final, students are asked to present their business ideas by making a presentation in 90 seconds, and awards are given to the students who rank.

'''[https://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/eventcalender/2020/02/20/default-calendar/startup-huddle-istanbul-february-event Startup Huddle Istanbul:]''' Startup Huddle is an international program of the Global Entrepreneurship Network(GEN), which has 10 million members with 20,000 partners in 160 different countries. Startup Huddle events are organized only in the ITU GİNOVA in Turkey. Each month, one or two early-stage startups find the opportunity to make a presentation on the Startup Huddle and they can get feedback from other entrepreneurs, mentors, and participants. Each presentation takes 6 minutes and followed by 20 minutes of the feedback section. The aim of the program is to develop local entrepreneurs and strengthen the entrepreneurship ecosystem.

'''[http://ituemk.org/12-ucari UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':]''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-29T17:51:23Z

Selinyilmaz: /* How to Workshops */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''İTÜ GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''[http://www.enstitu.ieeetrsb.org/pec-events/girisimci-sohbetleri/ Entrepreneur Chats]:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

'''[http://www.failureweek.org/ Failure Week:]''' Failure Week which was organized with the motto of "Ever tried ever failed no matter try again fail again fail better". In Failure Week, inspiring people, entertaining games, workshops, competitions, and failure stories met with the participants. Up to now, it has been prepared three times, and hopefully, the fourth one will be in March 2021.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-27T23:32:20Z

Selinyilmaz:

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]


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[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

Priorities:Istanbul Technical University Student Priorities

2020-09-27T17:55:18Z

Selinyilmaz:

== <big>'''2020 Cohort | Student Priorities'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Project #0: Introduction to the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Certificate Program:'''</big> ===

Main Project of the 2020 Fall cohort of Istanbul Technical University

'''''People in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik, Selenay Sonay Tufan, Selin Yılmaz, and Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====

'''The roadmap of the certificate program to be organized within the created ITU Innovation Mission is as follows:'''

# Firstly, the student shares his / her problem and solution proposal on the topic of the month from the platform.
#
# Selected ones meeting on the same denominator are grouped in Discord servers, thus creating learning circles.
#
# In the learning circles, readings and brainstorms on the main topics are carried out every week. Basic knowledge is fed by various Coursera training according to its denominators.
#
# Thanks to the mentors from the upper classes assigned to the groups, newcomers in the circle get to know the university culture and start drawing their roadmaps. In addition, tasks to be completed are assigned based on peer review learning nutrition.
#
# With sector talks (Tuesday Talks), which will be held regularly and Failure Week, sector recognition and networking are provided and university-industry cooperation is strengthened.
#
# Groups that want to move their projects to the start-up phase can be included in Tough Nut Innovation Camp (Optional).
#
# Students who actively complete the tasks assigned in the certificate program are invited to the Fire Up Change Pioneers Program.
#
# Students who have successfully completed the Fire Up process and selected through interviews will be introduced as a candidate cohort for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program.

=== <big>'''Project #1: Forming a Project Teams Unit @ Technology Transfer Office:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selin Yılmaz

==== '''Project Details''' ====

There are 19 student project teams at Istanbul Technical University. They develop several projects that are enhanced with original design understanding, innovative and intelligent solutions, and aim to represent our country and our school in the best way by taking its place in the competition every year. Even though the teams have academic counselors, there is not a specific unit to be interface in their technology transfer process.To strengthen their connection with the industry, the project aims to establish an interface structure in the technology transfer office which informs teams about the intellectual property law, patent procedures, and strategy development.

=== <big>'''Project #2: Creating a Solution for the Socialization Problem of University Students:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Selenay Sonay Tufan

==== '''Project Details''' ====

Our university is Turkey's first technical university and ITU has achieved success with its students and academic staff since 1773. However, when I examined the expectations of students from a school in my interviews, I realized that besides academic success, social life is also indispensable for students. Most of the students were not satisfied with the social life of our university, and they said that this issue got worse during the pandemic period. And I chose this project to develop and improve this issue. The basis of this project is to solve the socialization problem of ITU students.

The project I want to do to solve this issue is to organize activities that will enable students to meet each other and make good friendships. I think such activities will greatly increase the motivation of the student, especially in this period when we continue online education. In these socialization activities that I will carry out, I aim for every student to learn useful information as well as socializing. This learned knowledge can be an inspirational conversation, interesting research, or entrepreneurship training. Moreover, I think there is no limit to the information that can be shared. These socializing and meeting activities that I want to do online in the online term, can also be done face to face after the pandemic process. I hope these events to be organized will be included in ITU culture over the years and become one of the most anticipated events.

=== <big>'''Project #3: Improving the Feedback System of the University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Cansu Çevik

==== '''Project Details''' ====

On-campus, lots of problems or complaints about school, life, education style or the world problems are as normal as all around the world. But specifically in ITU, we have a “Support Ticket System” about the lectures and general ideas about the school itself. Along with the research that we made and also personal experiences this kind of application students do not feel so comfortable because of this button connected to the school management and there is always a question about “Is my comment will be effective on my education treatment?” and we started from here to pop these bubbles and negativity in students' minds and turn these negative impacts to new brief innovation and entrepreneurship forest. Alright hun, “How Are We Going To Do This Real?”

Here are the steps:

Firstly, every month through some free apps and site questions will be uploaded to these connections which every type of student who is part of the campus and the ITU will have a brief word to mention.
Secondly, these people will be involved in a process in which a group of tasks will be given and expect these students to finish their responsible parts. In this way, they asked to be completed a course on “Coursera” which will increase their type of creativity and engagement.
Thirdly, according to the process, students who finished their tasks actively on the due date will be connected to another innovation project called Fire-Up Changemakers Program.
Fourth, after all these assumptions students will get into the UIF Programme.

In general, the idea is to involve students in innovation and entrepreneurship through specific problem sessions.

=== <big>'''Project #4: Innovation Discourse of the Istanbul Technical University:'''</big> ===

'''''Person in Charge:''''' Serhat Bilge

==== '''Project Details''' ====


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[[Category:Student Priorities]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T16:28:34Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[Fellow:Cansu ÇEVİK|Cansu Çevik]]

[[Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan|Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[Fellow:Selin Yilmaz|Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


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[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T16:27:21Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Inspirational Events */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity:''' TEDx is an event carried out within TED in terms of content and concept, which was initiated to bring science, arts, and entertainment content organizations to a wider audience and to spread TED culture. TEDxITU student club organized this event for the first time in 2013 with the theme "Highlights" in order to keep the TED culture alive at ITU and to enable the voices of every person who has ideas worth sharing. After a 5-year hiatus, in 2018, the second event was organized with the theme "Layers", which is interpreted as ''"the process we build upon something or the hidden layers underneath the obvious shell –hidden causes-."''.

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[Fellow:Cansu ÇEVİK|Cansu Çevik]]

[[Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan|Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[Fellow:Selin Yilmaz|Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:57:54Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Research Centers */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students-young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology, and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[Fellow:Cansu ÇEVİK|Cansu Çevik]]

[[Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan|Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[Fellow:Selin Yilmaz|Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:57:28Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Competitions */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by the Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[Fellow:Cansu ÇEVİK|Cansu Çevik]]

[[Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan|Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[Fellow:Selin Yilmaz|Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:57:10Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Competitions */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition organized by Industrial Engineering Society which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[Fellow:Cansu ÇEVİK|Cansu Çevik]]

[[Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan|Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[Fellow:Selin Yilmaz|Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:46:42Z

Selinyilmaz:

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|650px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[Fellow:Cansu ÇEVİK|Cansu Çevik]]

[[Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan|Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[Fellow:Selin Yilmaz|Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:45:41Z

Selinyilmaz: /* 2020 cohort candidates */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[Fellow:Cansu ÇEVİK|Cansu Çevik]]

[[Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan|Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[Fellow:Selin Yilmaz|Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:44:07Z

Selinyilmaz: /* RELATED LINKS */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''Official Websites'''</big> ===

[http://global.itu.edu.tr ITU]

[https://www.ariteknokent.com.tr/en ITU Arı Technopolis]

[https://itucekirdek.com/en/homepage ITU Cekirdek]

[http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/ İTÜNOVA TTO]

[http://ginova.itu.edu.tr/en/home ITU GİNOVA]

[https://innogate.org/en/homepage/ INNOGATE]

[https://otam.com.tr/en/home/ ITU OTAM]

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Cansu_ÇEVİK| Cansu Çevik]]

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan| Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Selin_Yilmaz| Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:36:31Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Inspirational Events */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Cansu_ÇEVİK| Cansu Çevik]]

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan| Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Selin_Yilmaz| Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:36:09Z

Selinyilmaz:

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs that collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Cansu_ÇEVİK| Cansu Çevik]]

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan| Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Selin_Yilmaz| Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

Fellow:Selin Yilmaz

2020-09-23T12:30:00Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Social media profiles */

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==Bio==
Selin Yilmaz was born in Istanbul and raised in Antalya. Completing her education till university in there, she started her higher education back in Istanbul. She is currently a junior student at Istanbul Technical University (ITU) studying Management Engineering.

Before starting her undergraduate degree, she studied in English preparation for one semester both to get to know people from different departments and to explore student clubs better. During the preparation and the following three semesters, she regularly attended Japanese and Korean lessons organized by the ITU Far East Studies Community, and had the opportunity to learn more about different cultures and languages. In the freshman year, she took an active role in ITU Management Engineering Club and took part in the kitchen of the 10th Information Technologies Summit and the 19th Management Sciences Congress. In her sophomore year, Selin took part in the organization and finance team of the “Layers” themed TEDxIstanbulTechnicalUniversity conference. Through the processes, she learned about student club dynamics and how tiring but also fun organizing an event is.

Selin is also a fellow in Fire-Up Changemakers Program, which aims to build a student community that will create change on campus, focusing on developing students’ entrepreneurship and social innovation skills, and introduced her to the University Innovation Fellows Program. Since March 2020, Selin has been working as an undergraduate research assistant in one of the European Commission's Knowledge Alliance projects called Boundary Spanners, which focusses on the role of boundary spanners in removing barriers of university-industry cooperation.

The courses and campus activities fueled her enthusiasm for project development and creating an impact for a sustainable future. It was eye-opening for Selin to learn stages of the product development and put it into practice, especially in the Management Engineering Design course and in ITU APIS R&D project team as a UAV member. Her research interests are artificial intelligence, product development, design thinking, and organizational behavior. She also rejoices in reading about archeology and history, listening to various genres, and trying different cuisines.

==Achievements==

==Social media profiles==

[https://www.linkedin.com/in/selinzmliy LinkedIn]

[https://www.instagram.com/selinlul/ Instagram]

[[Category:Istanbul Technical University (2020 cohort)]]
[[Category:Student Contributors]]

{{CatTree|Istanbul Technical University}}

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:27:25Z

Selinyilmaz:

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===

== <big>'''RELATED LINKS'''</big> ==

=== <big>'''University Innovation Fellows'''</big> ===

==== '''2020 cohort candidates''' ====

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Cansu_ÇEVİK| Cansu Çevik]]

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Selenay_Sonay_Tufan| Selenay Sonay Tufan]]

[[https://universityinnovation.org/wiki/Fellow:Selin_Yilmaz| Selin Yılmaz]]

Serhat Bilge


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:17:16Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

[[File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png|250px|thumb|right|İTÜNOVA TTO]]

İTÜNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Technopolis.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

File:İTÜNOVA TTO.png

2020-09-23T12:15:08Z

Selinyilmaz: http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/

== Summary ==
http://www.itunovatto.com.tr/en/

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:12:13Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named ITUNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. ITUNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:11:53Z

Selinyilmaz: /* ITU Arı Teknokent */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named ITUNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. ITUNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:11:33Z

Selinyilmaz: /* ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their goals and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji A.Ş. was established in February 2013 and was named ITUNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. ITUNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the "Technology Transfer Office" of ITU, is particularly positioned as a "company" that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of ITUNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:09:49Z

Selinyilmaz:

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|600px|thumb|right|ITU Bee Gate]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:03:15Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg||1150px|link=]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|200px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T12:01:38Z

Selinyilmaz: /* Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg||1150px|link=]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|250px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Center for Social Innovation'''

[[File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg|thumb|right|ITU Center for Social Innovation]]

ITU Center for Social Innovation aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

File:ITU Center for Social Innovation.jpeg

2020-09-23T12:00:16Z

Selinyilmaz: https://sim.itu.edu.tr

== Summary ==
https://sim.itu.edu.tr

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T11:51:04Z

Selinyilmaz:

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg||1150px|link=]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|thumb|right|Imperial School of Naval Engineering]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

[[File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg|250px|thumb|right|ITU GİNOVA]]

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center'''

ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

[[File:Ari-teknokent-logo-2.jpeg|250px|thumb|right|ITU Arı Technopolis]]

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

File:ITU GİNOVA.jpg

2020-09-23T11:39:55Z

Selinyilmaz:

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA)

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T11:38:38Z

Selinyilmaz:

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg||1150px|link=]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|frame|right|Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun(Imperial School of Naval Engineering)]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center'''

ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets on carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T11:37:17Z

Selinyilmaz: /* HISTORY */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg||1000px|link=]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==

[[File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg|250px|frame|right|Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun]]

Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center'''

ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets on carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


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[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

File:Mühendishane-i Berri Hümayun.jpg

2020-09-23T11:33:13Z

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First building of ITU

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T11:30:11Z

Selinyilmaz: /* ITU Arı Teknokent */

[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg||1000px|link=]]

== '''HISTORY''' ==
Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center'''

ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets on carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T11:27:49Z

Selinyilmaz:

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T11:11:02Z

Selinyilmaz:

<gallery>
[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|thumb|center]]
</gallery>

== '''HISTORY''' ==
Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== <big>'''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Student Clubs'''</big> ====

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== <big>'''Inspirational Events'''</big> ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== <big>'''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship'''</big> ===

==== <big>'''Research Centers'''</big> ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center'''

ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets on carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== <big>'''How to Workshops'''</big> ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== <big>'''Competitions'''</big> ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== <big>'''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function'''</big> ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== <big>'''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration'''</big> ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== <big>'''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts'''</big> ===


{{CatTree|Istanbul_Technical_University}}

[[Category:Schools]]
[[Category:Istanbul Technical University]]

School:Istanbul Technical University

2020-09-23T11:01:18Z

Selinyilmaz:

<gallery>
[[File:Istanbul Technical University Bee Gate.jpg|thumb|center]]
</gallery>

== '''HISTORY''' ==
Founded in 1773 with the name “Mühendishane-i Bahr-i Hümayun” (Imperial School of Naval Engineering) during the reign of Mustafa III, Istanbul Technical University is a prominent and pioneering university of engineering and architecture with many innovative studies in science, technology, research and development. İTÜ, as a university mainly composed of graduate engineering schools and research laboratories, works closely in collaboration with enterprises and other economic and social partners. Our university facilitates the knowledge and technology transfer to industries, management centers, briefly to all society. To do this, İTÜ has created many Techno-Science parks, incubation centers, entrepreneurship and innovation center, and technology transfer office. This way, İTÜ offers a favorable environment for students to build a successful career in their professions, to improve themselves, to seek internship opportunities, and to conduct research projects.

=== '''Mission''' ===
The purpose of existence for the Istanbul Technical University is to expand the borders of knowledge and its applications in science, technology and art for contributing to the sustainable community.

=== '''Vision''' ===
Istanbul Technical University’s vision is to become a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology and art.

=== '''Targets''' ===
* Education targeting change and improvement
* Outcome-oriented, interdisciplinary research to be beneficial for society
* Effective cooperation in international relations
* Versatile, effective, and sustainable university-industry cooperation (UIC)
* Strengthening the ITU perception in public; participatory and transparent governance and with increasing own revenue

== '''INSTITUTIONAL OVERVIEW''' ==

=== '''Promoting Student Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ===

'''Student Clubs'''

In Istanbul Technical University, there are 246 student clubs and they collaborate with industry and organize various case studies, seminars, and competitions to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation.

==== '''Inspirational Events''' ====

'''Different Futures Summit:''' Different Futures Summit is organized by the ITU Alumni Association Club for 4 years. The summit aims to shed light on education life and career journey and to empower students to make a difference in and out of departments by bringing alumni and students together.

'''Information Technologies Summit:''' Information Technologies Summit is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 19 years. In the sessions, technology-focused issues are handled by relevant company representatives and leading names in the IT industry. Participating companies in the IT field find the opportunity to announce new information technology products, services, and human resources activities and to communicate with participants from within the sector. In the interactive section, it is aimed to increase the interaction of the participants with each other with various activities such as Speed-networking, Likemind, Coffee Time, and Cocktail hours.

'''Management Sciences Congress:''' Management Sciences Congress is organized by the Management Engineering Society for 21 years. Sessions cover the topics which are in Turkey and the world's focus and handled by the respective company representatives and leading names in the sector. In addition, the speakers inspire students who are planning their careers by sharing their work and life experiences with the participants.

'''Future Shapers:''' Future Shapers was organized by the IEEE Student Chapter and aimed to develop the participants' problem-solving skills by approaching global problems in a logical framework, developing teamwork and innovative solution generating skills. The event included panels, sessions, and case studies which are based on UNDP's 17 Sustainable Development Goals. The final 2 projects determined by the jury of 3 entrepreneurs were sent for Region 8 evaluations.

'''Industrial Engineering Student Summit:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society for 28 years. It consists of career events and panels. The main theme and sub-topics are determined each year according to new and developing technology trends. C-level managers from companies and successful panelists in fields such as arts and sports present their experiences from different sectors.

'''Plan Your Cross-Departmental Route:''' The event is organized by the Industrial Engineering Society aiming to introduce different departments. It is carried out in a panel format with managers working in the same department in different sectors, accompanied by a moderator.

'''Outliers III:''' Outliers is organized by the Entrepreneurship Club for 3 years. The event is focused on people who have progressed with their own motivations as speakers, instead of stereotyped career plans.

=== '''Encouraging Faculty Innovation and Entrepreneurship''' ===

==== '''Research Centers''' ====

'''ITU GİNOVA'''

ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Application and Research Center (GİNOVA) is founded in May 2014 to inspire entrepreneurship culture in ITU; encourage ITU students and faculties for taking initiative based on creativity and innovation, to provide them for finding necessary links for improving their skills and abilities; besides all these to research for expanding the limits of the knowledge about innovation and entrepreneurship. The center aims to gather and augmenting people who are interested in innovation and entrepreneurship as well as increasing interactions between different departments. Being a meeting point for the students who study in different departments of the ITU, promoting them to generate ideas together, and bring them into action are other objectives of the center.

'''ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center'''

ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center aims to generate novel and effective solutions in addition to innovative ideas for social, economic, and environmental issues by prioritizing social benefit. The Center targets on carrying out multidisciplinary research and development projects in cooperation with internal and external stakeholders in order to develop solutions based on social innovation.

The objective of ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center is to further enhance the innovation capacity of ITU while generating solutions for public problems by the joint effort of university-industry-public stakeholders via the use of ITU's well-established education and eminent research capacity enriched with ITU's vision of being a leading, international university through its expertise and creativity in science, technology, and art.
ITU Social Innovation Research and Application Center intends to enable the active participation of ITU students to the projects and training activities developed for generating sustainable and effective solutions to social problems focusing particularly on process improvement, product and service innovation, social support, and public awareness issues.

ITU’s contributions to the nation’s socio-economic development will increasingly continue by cultivating its students -young engineers, researchers, architects, entrepreneurs, artists, and managers- to be not only competent and creative in science, technology and arts but also sensitive towards the needs of the society from which they generate.

==== '''How to Workshops''' ====

'''GİNOVA Tuesday Talks:''' The event is organized by ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and it aims to bring together inspiring speakers on entrepreneurship and ITU residents.

'''Entrepreneur Chats:''' The event was organized by the student chapter of The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and Entrepreneurs Network Turkey (ENET). It aimed to learn what entrepreneurship is, its difficulties, how individuals should follow it, by chatting with people with entrepreneurship spirit.

==== '''Competitions''' ====

'''Fire-Up Changemakers Program:''' Fire Up Changemakers is a program led by the collaboration of ITU Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center (GİNOVA) and Boğaziçi University Innovation Center (BRIGHT). The program aims to build a student community that creates change on campus, focusing on fostering entrepreneurship and social innovation capabilities of the students. Those who complete the missions successfully will be invited to individual interviews and 8 successful students (four from each university) will be nominated for the Stanford University Innovation Fellows Program. Fellowship requires completing other tasks including an internship at a prominent startup in Turkey, a capstone project, and mentorship for the following year’s fellow candidates and fellows.

'''Dijifikir/ ''DigIdea'':''' Dijifikir is an e-business idea competition organized by the Management Engineering Society that brings young entrepreneurs with investors and provides entrepreneurs the chance to make their dreams come true.

'''UçArı / ''(The name of the competition is a pun which both means Uç Arı (Fly Bee) and Uçarı (Frivolous))'':''' UçArı is a national case study competition which enables students to challenge themselves, develop their business skills, expand their knowledge of cultures and career opportunities through international education and internship opportunities.

=== '''Actively Supporting the University Technology Transfer Function''' ===

==== '''ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office''' ====

ITUNOVA Technology Transfer Office (TTO) offers academic studies and new technologies developed in Istanbul Technical University (ITU) to the benefit of the industry to meet their and help with the development of Turkey by adding value. Founded as the technology transfer interface of ITU, İTÜNOVA TTO aims to connect knowledge and industry for commercialization.

As a body to facilitate access to and generate and commercialize scientific and technological information, and support technology transfer and entrepreneurship, İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ was established in February 2013 and was named İTÜNOVA TTO under the TÜBİTAK 1513 Program in January 2014. İTÜNOVA Teknoloji AŞ, the ‘Technology Transfer Office’ of ITU, is particularly positioned as a ‘company’ that expeditiously provides services in private sector standards in partnership with ITU Foundation and ITU ARI Teknokent.

The vision of İTÜNOVA TTO is to increase the scientific and technological knowledge production capacity of ITU on an international level and commercialize the generated knowledge to the benefit of the society. Its mission is to enhance scientific and technological knowledge production capability through academy-industry collaboration and implement new technologies built on this knowledge, increase the radius of action for additional research making use of national and international funds, protect the resulting knowledge, and provide suitable platforms for entrepreneurs who will create this knowledge.

==== '''ITU Arı Teknokent''' ====

ITU ARI Teknokent aims to be a global technology development area by:

* providing proper environment and opportunities to enable technology companies and entrepreneurs develop and commercialize technologies,
* contributing technological development in Turkey and the success of generating entrepreneurial ideas, and
* using ITU’s academic power to accomplish innovations rather than follow.

In order to leverage technology production in Turkey, ITU ARI Teknokent aims to:

* be a hub for R&D and innovation activities in Turkey, particularly Istanbul, and
* support, improve, and steer the synergy arising from ITU’s academic knowledge and R&D companies.

Active in ITU Ayazağa Campus, ITU ARI Teknokent has been founded on an area of '''1,655,000 m2''' with '''10 buildings''', enabling over '''2800 successful R&D projects (148 of which patented)''' and '''$40 million exports''' to contribute to the national economy.

Today at ITU ARI Teknokent, more than 290 R&D companies have reached a total of $1 billion turnovers with over 7000 employees to develop more than 600 projects annually.

=== '''Facilitating University-Industry Collaboration''' ===

'''ITU Career Summit:''' The summit is organized by ITU Career Center for 6 years. The summit enables ITU students to get detailed information about internship and career opportunities, to apply for positions suitable for their academic education and skills, and for companies to reach qualified human resources of the new age in a short time.

=== '''Engaging with Regional and Local Economic Development Efforts''' ===


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