17 - Partnerships for the Goals

Goal 17: Strengthen the means of implementation and revitalize the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Finance

Reinforcing worldwide organizations and upgrading the methods for executing the Goals have stayed a test attributable to scant money related assets, exchange pressures, innovative snags, and an absence of The pandemic is adding difficulties to the usage of the Goals. As COVID-19 keeps on spreading, worldwide finance and business sectors have encountered extraordinary misfortunes and extreme unpredictability.

The accompanying exploration ventures have been explicitly adjusted to Sustainable Development Goal 17 and the expect to fortify the methods for usage and revive the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Finance. These tasks and activities are instances of the University's commitment to the SDGs.

İTÜ DigitalWorld 2021

The series of five Ministerial Roundtables at İTÜ Digital World 2021 focused on the role of government in digital transformation from the perspectives of infrastructure, funding, and driving demand.

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ITU Çekirdek Sustainability Program

ITU Incubation Center is waiting for you at İTÜ Cekirdek with your industry-oriented startup for a sustainable future!

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ITU SEED Accelerator Program

ITU SEED, celebrates its 10th anniversary and is ranked in the top five, among university incubation centers by UBI Global.

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ITU EU Erasmus Office

The Office coordinates EU Erasmus projects of İTÜ. One example is KA-107 Project for the mobility of staff of partner universities.

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ITU Office of International Affairs

It aims to carry out its activities at a universal level and to contribute to humanity with all its activities.

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ITU Office of Dean of Research ARDEK

ARDEK is established with the objective of making İTÜ primarily a research-based university, facilitating the research-development ecosystem, providing rapid support for resource needs and providing guidance and financial support for maintaining sustainability.

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Promoting Conscious Water Use

İTÜ has a social responsibility project called Tears of Water (Suyun Gözyaşları in Turkish) aims to give free seminars and workshops to primary school students in order to increase the consciousness in water use.

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Solar Decathlon Africa: Zero Energy and Zero Waste Concept

A team has members from İTÜ and named as Bosphorus represented Turkey for the first time in Solar Decathlon Africa Competition. The team started the construction of the ReYard House Project with zero energy and zero waste concept.

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Energy Efficient Buildings

İTÜ thrives to increase the number of sustainable buildings in terms of water and energy efficiency. Energy efficient mechanical and electrical appurtenances are used in these buildings.

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İTÜ Green Campus Project

İTÜ has declared several ambitious targets and projects concerning increase the use of zero emission vehicles, pedestrians’ paths and bicycle roads.

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ItüNOVATION!

With İTÜNova and many others, İTÜis supporting innovation and transfering the technology developed in the university to the benefit of industry.

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İTÜ projected the first Super City of Turkey!

A team from İTÜ designed “zero energy, zero waste and self-sufficient ecological city that produces its own needs” in Eskisehir Kocakır.

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AVESIS "Sustainable Development Goals" module: Publications and Experts

AVESIS "Sustainable Development Goals" module supports to increase the impact of researchers' contribution within the scope of UN Sustainable Development Goals by ensuring that publications, projects, theses, and similar activities are visible at the international level./p>

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Sustainable Development Certificate Program

Some of the knowledge, skills, and competencies aimed to be acquired by the participants within the scope of this program are summarized below:

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The European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA)

The European Engineering Learning Innovation and Science Alliance (EELISA), of which Istanbul Technical University (ITU) is among its founding partners, is a European University Initiative association. the idea of the European University Initiative; It extends to the Gothenburg Summit of the Council of Europe, which took place in 2017.

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Establishment of the ITU Sustainability Office

The Sustainability Office works to enable our university to understand and deliver on its ambition to be leading socially responsible and sustainable university.

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