İstanbul Kültür University

Mutation, alternative waves, social and economic effects, and the year 2021, when digitalization transformed from choice to necessity, will be a test for entrepreneurs. Istanbul Kültür University's Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver organizing the "Start-Up Feast" for entrepreneurial youth with the theme " Make Your Ideas real That Will Shape The New Norm"  pointed out that crisis periods are an opportunity for out-of-the-box, innovative and solution-oriented entrepreneur candidates.

My Dear Kültür Family,

We are leaving the first month of the year behind. As of February, we are on the verge of a new beginning. Due to the second wave, we switched working from home in December 2020. As of Monday, February 1, 2021, we are returning to our Ataköy Campus with our senior management, academic and administrative staff which we determined as 63 employees in the first phase.

Our students (associate degree, undergraduate, graduate) and our graduates who want to represent IKU by joining our team competing in the Universities Online Chess League, which is held on Sundays every week, can be a part of our university's successful Chess Culture by contacting the numbers below.

- IKU graduates, 0533 735 56 07, to İKÜMED Board Member Atty. Tutku Dinçer,

- IKU students (associate degree, undergraduate and graduate) can reach Berkay Daloğlu, a 4th year Industrial Engineering student, by calling 0 (507) 829 26 11.

Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) Graduate Education Institute Spring Term applications have started. Online applications to IKU Graduate Education Institute, which has 67 master's with thesis and non-thesis and 11 doctorate programs in 20 main branches of science and 4 main branches of art, will continue until February 5, 2021.

'CoronaVac' vaccine develepod in China against Covid-19 arrived in Turkey. With the introduction of the vaccine, the number of topics about vaccine types and vaccine application is increasing. Assoc. Prof. Pınar Obakan Yerlikaya, a faculty member of the Faculty of Science and Literature, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, who continues her research on the development of various drug active ingredients against COVID-19 with her work team and cooperation partners, gave information about the COVID 19 virus vaccines and vaccines.

Istanbul Kültür University (IKU) Head of the Board of Trustees Dr. Bahar Akıngüç Günver published a message regarding the IKU agenda which has changed with the New Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19).

My Dear Kültür Family

In this first message of the new year, as the Head of the Board of Trustees and as a member of the Founding Family, the most important agenda of mine is to know how to increase the happiness and well-being of my colleagues at work.

In cooperation with KKB and the Program of Banking and Insurance, an online information meeting was held on the Adobe Connect Virtual Classroom Application on Tuesday, January 19, 2021, at 19:00  in order to inform Istanbul Kültür University students about the "You Imagine, We Realize Social Innovation Idea Competition". In the meeting that the head of Banking and Insurance Program Lecturer A. Berrak Köten was the moderator, and Aslıhan Öncel and Merve Çavdar from KKB Corporate Communication Unit were the guests, the questions of the students were answered.

An agreement was reached between Istanbul Kültür University and Cultural Services Corporation, and Dünyagöz Hospitals Group, which has been producing world-class solutions for eye health problems since 1996, with the latest technologies. Thanks to the signed protocol, IKU and Cultural Services Corporation employees, administrative-academic staff, students, graduates and first degree relatives; will be able to benefit from examination, laser, general and special surgeries at a discount.

An e-seminar titled "Choosing the Right Career and Next Generation Competencies" was held within the scope of the webinar series "Job Belongs to knower of it: Entrepreneurship Models" organized by Istanbul Kültür University Vocational School. The guest of the webinar series which is organized in order to gain different perspectives to the participants with the experiences of people who have achieved success in their sectors and to increase their level of awareness moderated by Lecturer A. Berrak Köten, Lecturer Dr.