{"id":5610,"date":"2023-11-07T11:53:52","date_gmt":"2023-11-07T08:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=5610"},"modified":"2023-11-07T13:34:38","modified_gmt":"2023-11-07T10:34:38","slug":"world-sustainability-day-panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=5610","title":{"rendered":"World Sustainability Day Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Faculty of Engineering and the Energy Investors Association (G\u00dcYAD) hosted a panel for the 2023 World Sustainability Day, which is celebrated on the last Wednesday of every October. Vice Rector Prof. Ezhan Kara\u015fan and G\u00dcYAD Chairman Cem \u00d6zk\u00f6k gave the opening statements at this hybrid event, which was held at EE-01 as well as broadcast live. Other speakers included Elvan Tu\u011fsuz G\u00fcven, Chairperson, HES\u0130AD; Birol Erg\u00fcven, CEO, Limak Enerji; Ali Karaduman, CEO, Mogan Enerji; Osman \u015eahin K\u00f6\u015fker, General Manager, Kontrolmatik; Hakan Birhan, Director, Garanti BBVA Investments and Finance Unit; Nesrin T\u00f6re \u015een, Director, Kalyon PV R&amp;D; Emre Okuyan, Deputy Director, \u0130\u015f Enerji; Prof. Dr. Yasemin Afacan, Department Chair of IAED, Bilkent University; and Asst. Prof. A. Alperen G\u00fcnay, of ME, Bilkent University.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/060681a1-385f-4086-a18b-83a889b5bd02.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5612\" width=\"512\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/060681a1-385f-4086-a18b-83a889b5bd02.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/060681a1-385f-4086-a18b-83a889b5bd02-300x225.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/060681a1-385f-4086-a18b-83a889b5bd02-768x576.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 512px) 100vw, 512px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>The speakers discussed various renewable energy technologies and their reflections in sustainability and delivered a joint message that fossil-fuel based energy conversion should be minimized as soon as possible for a sustainable future. The speakers also agreed that this will only be possible if the collaborations between research universities and industry are enhanced significantly. Several faculty members from Bilkent\u2019s Sustainability Committee also attended the meeting, and further joint events on specific topics were confirmed verbally.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Faculty of Engineering and the Energy Investors Association (G\u00dcYAD) hosted a panel for the 2023 World Sustainability Day, which is celebrated on the last Wednesday of every October. Vice Rector Prof. Ezhan Kara\u015fan and G\u00dcYAD Chairman Cem \u00d6zk\u00f6k gave the opening statements at this hybrid event, which was held<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=5610\">[Read More&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5611,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,80,143,133],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5610"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5613,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5610\/revisions\/5613"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bilkentnews.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}