The third “Zero Waste Summit and Award Ceremony,” organized by the Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change, was held at the Haliç Congress Center in İstanbul on December 23. The Zero Waste Project aims to control waste within the framework of sustainable development principles and to leave a clean[Read More…]
The Department of Architecture is presenting an exhibition of student works that explores the potential of the metaverse. Digitally produced projects from the spring 2022 iteration of the course ARCH 440-Special Topics in Architecture are being exhibited in Spatial.Io. The projects were designed by six groups of students, led by[Read More…]
According to the Technology Development Zones 2021 Performance Index areas provided by the Ministry of Industry and Technology, Bilkent Cyberpark has become the most successful technopark in Turkey. The results of the Performance Index for 2021 were announced at the R&D and Design Centers and Technology Development Zones Summit. Bilkent’s[Read More…]
On December 10, the 16th Ankara Startup Summit took place at Ankara Chamber of Commerce (ATO), attracting more than 500 attendees. The event, organized by the Bilkent Young Entrepreneurs Society in partnership with Bilkent Cyberpark, brought founders of aspiring startups together with representatives of the entrepreneurial world. The summit culminated[Read More…]
As the Smart-Seat project team, Computer Engineering second-year students Halil Tataroğlu, Elif Şen and Muti Kara were finalists in the Hackathon competition. This regional competition, which includes Turkey and the Middle East, was organized around the theme “How can railways be more resilient against epidemics?” The Hackathon is an event[Read More…]
To help students prepare for final exams, the Bilkent University Main Campus Library is staying open from 8:30 a.m. to 3 a.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. to 3 a.m. on weekends through January 8. These extended opening hours apply only to the reading rooms in A Block; there is no circulation service after 11:30 p.m. During this[Read More…]
On November 17, fourteen Bilkent students visited the Malta Embassy for a celebratory occasion. They were invited as special guests by the Malta Ambassador herself, H. E. Theresa Cutajar, to receive their certificates of achievement for successfully completing a 20-hour virtual study unit on “Creative Thinking and Innovation.” This study[Read More…]
On December 8, Department of Tourism and Hotel Management hosted the 11th Bilkent Tourism Forum, bringing together representatives of key public and private tourism industry organizations, diplomatic corps, and higher education institutions. This year’s forum took place at the Bilkent Hotel and Conference Center wıth the theme “Tourism Diversification: Time[Read More…]
The Young Law Scholars Symposium was hosted on November 16-17 by the Faculty of Law. The two-day symposium brought together 24 young law scholars and more than 160 participants. The symposium opened with a speech by the Dean of the Faculty of Law, Prof. Ece Göztepe. On the first day,[Read More…]
On December 3, as part of International Day of Persons with Disabilities, TDP (Toplumsal Duyarlılık Projeleri/Social Awareness Projects) collaborated with İDF Bilkent High School and Special Olympics Turkey to invite 150 children with mental disabilities from special education schools in Ankara to visit Bilkent University. In this social awareness project[Read More…]
