Ozyegin University (OZU), founded in 2007, is a non-profit foundation university in Istanbul. It is one of the most innovative and research-oriented universities in Turkey. OZU ranked in the top 8 in the most entrepreneurial and innovative Turkish universities index, prepared under the leadership of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TUBITAK), published by the Ministry of Science, Industry and Technology in 2016. OZU has been ranked in the top ten for the last five years. OZU hosts six Faculties; three Graduate Schools; two Schools, and eight centers. The university has cooperated with many national and international institutions and its project portfolio exceeded 60 Million TL (about 17.1 Million Euros) for 327 projects as of December 2016. 43% of this budget comes from TÜBİTAK funds; 27%comes from the EU and the rest from industrial partnerships and other funding institutions. Between 2009 and 2016, OZU has filed 46 patent applications (16 national and 30 international) and 3 utility model registrations. Assistant Professor Dr. Susan Beth Rottmann is the Primary Investigator for RESPOND at Özyeğin University.
Susan Rottmann | principal investigator
Lecturer in Anthropology with expertise in qualitative research methods, migration, transnationalism, gender, ethnicity, religion and politics in Europe and the Middle East. Dr. Rottmann has received several major research grants, including a Fulbright-Hays DDRA and grants from the Social Science Research Council, the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the American Research Institute in Turkey and the Institute of Turkish Studies. Currently, she is affiliated with the Migration Studies Research Network and Laboratory has been actively involved in community service projects for the Syrian refugee community in Istanbul.
susan.rottmann@ozyegin.edu.tr
Serkis Cengiz Kurumlu | Digital comm. & production manager
Serkis (10.02.1976) is a native Turkish independent filming and digital communication professional with over 18 years career experience in multimedia, entertainment and production environments as producer, director, videographer/cameraman, film/video editor, creative director and content creator. Through his career, -as a creative visual content production proffesional, he diversed his interests at various stages of productions; whose later-on works has taken him around different motion visual platforms, including award winning documentary and feature films and produced/co- produced, directed/co-directed, shot, edited in more than 200 film and video projects both as free- lance basis and through his production company. With extensive experience across different genres of multimedia, Serkis continues to work on a diverse range of projects in digital media and cooperate communication areas, creating beautifully crafted content pieces, finding joy in his work making beautiful images to tell great stories.
CSKURUMLU@GMAIL.COM
Recent Blog Entries
by Jasmin Lilian Diab, Fouad M. Fouad | Global Health Institute, American University of Beirut
The Syrian civil war has displaced more than half of Syria’s population; within Syria for safety or to the neighboring countries to seek refuge. In the first two years of the Syria crisis, these countries; Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan, have opened their borders with no restrictions. The international humanitarian organizations and the international community have supported these states with the heavy burdens on their infrastructure.