compounds extracted from plants, to prevent the spreading of
infectious diseases like Borreliosis and other tick-borne bacterial
diseases. “TICKOTEX” project is one of the best practices of
university-industry partnership. Kıvanç Textile Inc. has been
awarded by Adana University Industry Joint Research Center for
winning this EUREKA project.
TÜBİTAK 1003
PRIMARY SUBJECTS
R&D FUNDING
PROGRAM GRANTS
NEWS FROM ÖZÜ TTO
THE FIRST TTO SUMMIT: 10 TTOs MET AT ÖZÜ
The first Technology Transfer Offices (TTO) Summit was held at
ÖzÜ on December 27, 2013 with the participation of TÜBİTAK
and ten TTO’s. One day event was structured in five panel
modules.
The Summit consisted of five panels as: TTO Directors’ Panel,
Grants Development/Management Services Panel, University
- Industry Cooperation Activities Panel, Intellectual Property
Management Panel and Entrepreneurship Panel
In addition to ÖzÜ TTO, nine other universities that were
supported from TÜBİTAK 1513 Program attended the summit:
Boğaziçi University, Ege University, Gazi University, Hacettepe
University, Koç University, ODTÜ, Özyeğin University, Sabancı
University, Selçuk University and Yıldız Technical University.
ÖZÜ TTO MENTORED
GAZIANTEP
UNIVERSITY TTO TO
WIN 2014 TÜBİTAK
1513 AWARD
ÖzÜ TTO provided mentorship
for developing Gaziantep
University TTO’s proposal for
TÜBİTAK 1513 TTO Grant
Program in 2014 and Gaziantep University is selected as new
TTOs. Each year 10 TTO’s are awarded a funding of 1 million
TL/year up to 10 years upon successful annual evaluation by
TÜBİTAK. ÖzÜ was selected as one of the first TTOs In 2013.
This year Anadolu University, Bilkent University, Dokuz Eylül
University, Erciyes University, Gaziantep University, İstanbul
University, İstanbul Technical University, İzmir Institute of
Technology, Erciyes University were entitled to be supported.
SUCCESS STORIES
FROM 2013
THE FIRST EUREKA
PROJECT: TICKOTEX
“TICKOTEX” the first EUREKA
project of Özyeğin University
was funded. Assist. Prof. Bahar
Başım is the project coordinator
of the Turkey team. Kıvanç Textile
Inc. is the industrial partner.
The project will be lead by an international consortium including
Romania, Turkey and Czech Republic. The duration of project is
36 months. The total budget of the project is 1 Million Euro and
one-third of the total budget is managed by Turkey.
The main objective of the project is the development of novel
multifunctional textile structures that include biological active
The projects of Assist. Prof. Dr.
Güney Güven Yapıcı and Assist.
Prof.Dr. Göksenin Yaralıoğlu
were funded in “1003 Primary
Subjects R&D Funding Program”
in May 3, 2013. The total number
of the projects evaluated for the “Diagnostic, Cure and Support
Purposed Innovative Medical Devices” call is 309, and only 16
of them were nominated for support in the two-stage evaluation
process.The expected credentials of the proposed projects were
defined as being innovative, creative, and value-added which
have potential to create a basis for the larger implementation
projects in the field of health through producing know-how and
technological outputs. Özyeğin University was the only institution
that was granted funding for two projects under this call.
ISTKA PROJECTS FUNDED IN
2013
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Arık’s project ‘EVATEG
- Energy Efficient Solid State Light Research,
Development Education and Demonstration
Center’ and Assist. Prof. Dr. Emreh Şener›s
project ‘Istanbul Financial Risk Management Laboratory’ are funded by
Istanbul Development Agency.
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EVATEG aims at promoting the production of LED lighting, LED
TV, LED Screen technologies in Turkey; to develop common
areas of use and applicable models for the production and
transfer of information and technologies. The total budget of the
project is about 1,775,000 TL. and 1,597,500 TL of the budget
is the support from ISTKA.
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Istanbul Financial Risk Management Laboratory aims at
developing and selling software applications for the countries in
the region; and building close ties with the private sector, SMEs,
as well as regulatory and supervisory supreme boards and
security exchange representatives through a series of trainings
and workshops. The total budget of the project is about 842,000
TL. and 742,000 TL of the budget is the support from ISTKA.
NEW FP7 PROJECT - BRICKER
Özyeğin University Center for Energy,
Environment and Economy (CEEE) is one
of the partners of BRICKER Project and
coordinator of project activities in Turkey. The
budget of CEEE is about 1,8 M. Euros. The
project was launched in October 2013 with a
total project budget of approximately 13 M Euros. The coordinator
of the project consortium is Acciona, Spain. The project aims at
producing a scalable, replicable and cost effective methodology for
refurbishing existing public-owned non-residential buildings. Bricker
team at ÖzÜ is headed by Prof. Dr. M. Pınar Mengüç, director of
CEEE and delegate at the Energy Commission for the European
Union Framework Programmes (EU-FP7) for Turkey.