Preface
Director’s Message
We are delighted to introduce the first volume of “Grants Catalog” of Özyeğin University (ÖzÜ). This catalog provides
a summary of the national and international grants carried out by ÖzÜ faculty members for the period 2009-2013.
We also have section for the backlog of 2014 grants, which include the projects accepted for funding, but their grant
agreements are still in the process. Awards received by our faculty members and academy-industry collaboration
projects are not included within the content of the catalog.
The catalog includes 27 national and 24 international grants from different funding agencies. The main source
of funding for the national grants is the Scientific, Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK). For the
international grants, the funding mainly comes from the EU 7th Framework Program.
We are pleased to see that during the last year, the university has continued to demonstrate progress in improving
its overall performance and increasing the research grants budget by 5,5 times between 2009 and 2013. Please note
that the catalog will also available online at TTO web site (http://tto.ozyegin.edu.tr)
The Özyeğin University, established in 2007, is one of the leading research oriented universities in Turkey. It has
been qualified to rank among the top 10 universities in “The Most Entrepreneurial and Innovative Universities Index”
announced by Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology in 2012 and 2013. In addition to this success, it has
been selected as one of the first 10 awardees for the support of 10 M TL for 10 years TUBITAK “Technology Transfer
Office (TTO) Support Program” in 2013.
As Technology Transfer Office (TTO), we mainly support our faculty members’ research activities and disseminate
the research outcomes to better support the goals and the innovation agenda of our University. We hope that this
catalog aligns perfectly well with our mission.
We are pleased to offer our congratulations to all of our faculty members who have been contributed to develop our
research grants portfolio and this catalog.
Sincerely,
Nilay Papila
TTO Director
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