3 - Good Health and Well-being

Goal 3: Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages

Progress in numerous well-being regions proceeds; however, the pace of progress has eased back and will not be adequate to meet the majority of the Goal 3 targets. The pandemic is destroying well-being frameworks all around the world and compromises well-being results previously accomplished. Most nations, specifically underdeveloped ones, have inadequate well-being offices, clinical supplies, and medical services laborers to satisfy the need for basic medical care. Nations need specific well-being techniques and expanded spending on well-being frameworks to address pressing issues and secure well-being laborers, while a worldwide composed exertion is expected to help nations out of luck.

The following research projects have been specifically aligned to Sustainable Development Goal 3 and the aim to ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages. These projects and initiatives are examples of the University’s contribution to the SDGs.

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Silver Medal at the Yoga Olympic Games

Athletes from ITU won a silver medal in the 1st Turkey National Yoga Olympic Games 2021 held in Istanbul. (27 Jan 2022)

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First Prize from TÜBA

Our graduate Assoc. Prof. Dr. Özgür Şafak Şeker was awarded the “First Prize in the Field of Diagnosis” in Special Award for Covid-19 Global Outbreak organized by TÜBA Academy Council. (18 Jan 2022)

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Turkey Championship in Orienteering

İstanbul Technical University Orienteering Team became the Turkish champions in the Interuniversity Orienteering Championship organized by the Turkish University Sports Federation. (25 Mar 2022)

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ITU 250th Anniversary Champions

Athletes who ranked in the ITU 250th Anniversary Sports Events came together at the award ceremony. (31 May 2022)

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Accessible Orianteering

“Barrier-Free Orienteering Event” was held on Friday, December 9, 2022 as part of ITU’s 250th Anniversary Events and its goal of a sustainable campus. (14 Dec 2022)

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Woman Scholar Award to Our Faculty Member in the Field of Immunology

ITU Faculty of Science and Letters, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics faculty member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayça Sayı Yazgan was awarded the “Işıl Berat Barlan Women Scholars” award given by the Turkish Society of Immunology under the leadership of Prof. Dr. Talal Chatila from Harvard Medical School. (14 Nov 2022)

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FISU University World Cup 3x3 Basketball at ITU

Istanbul Technical University shares the excitement of the FISU University World Cup 3x3 Basketball championship to be held in Istanbul on October 27-29. Universities from all over the world and teams representing our country will compete at Ayazağa Campus. (13 Oct 2022)

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250th Anniversary Volleyball Tournament

As part of the İstanbul Technical University (İTÜ) 250th Anniversary Events, the Volleyball Tournament, where our students compete on behalf of their faculties, started on Tuesday, April 5, 2022, at the Central Sports Hall. (08 Apr 2022)

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Education from our Psychological Counseling and Guidance Center

The training series provided by İTÜ Psychological Counseling Center Coordinator, Psychologist Cem Demirbaş, is now available on our İTÜ YouTube channel. (06 Jan 2022)

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Young Athletes are supported in İTÜ Basketball Sports Club Association

The protocol covers the support given to students with sports scholarship at ITU for their education life and later their access to job opportunities, organization of sports events (tournaments, competitions, sports festival) and training programs at ITU campuses and the use of ITU’s facilities.

ITU Environment, Climate and Sustainability Journal

ournal of Environment, Climate and Sustainability is an e-journal that is a continuation of the journal titled “ITU Journal-e/Water Pollution Control” published by ITU between 2005-2012.

Seismic Resilience and Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings Project

Project of Ministry of Environment, Urbanism and Climate Change called as “Seismic Resilience and Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings Project” is an another project. The below stated buildings are in the scope of this Project

Cycling city and pedestrian priority in Istanbul ITU

Within the scope of the project, ITU expanded the specially allocated bicycle and electric scooter lanes within the campus.

Local Community Projects

"Our university has several local and international projects in to improve or promote health and well-being"

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Socially Assistive Robotics in İTÜ as An Intervention Tool for Children with Autism

The Erasmus EMBOA project entitled “Affective loop in Socially Assistive Robotics as an intervention tool for children with autism” is a research and educational project that aims at enhancement of social robot intervention in children with autism with affective computing technologies.

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RoboRehab: Assistive Audiology Rehabilitation Robot

Another project called 'RoboRehab: Assistive Audiology Rehabilitation Robot', a TUBITAK 1001 project at ITU is to develop an affective robot companion for audiology rehabilitation and to test the system with the deaf or hard of hearing children.

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Open Digital Innovation Hub

This research aims to build a self-sustaining house which will serve as an Open Digital Innovation Hub (ODIH) for the entrepreneurs and researchers.

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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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The Campus is a Happy Home for Many

Our university is trying to provide an environment where everyone can smile.

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Making Disabled Students’ Life Easier

İTÜ has a Disabled Student Unit to make disabled students' educational life easier in terms of accessing faculty buildings and mentoring.

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Heirloom Seeds into The Campus Garden

Cooperating with the Buğday Association for supporting the ecological life (est. 2002), volunteer students have started vegetable beds in the Taşkışla campuss, as a part of the project “Nature friendly Urban Gardens – Seeds to the Campuss” by Buğday.

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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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