Sustainability Affairs

Dear Shareholders,

Our university is committed to placing sustainability at its core with a forward-looking commitment. Although the Sustainability Office was established in January 2024, sustainability-focused activities have been ongoing for years. Our office, which operates in parallel with the Social Responsibility Research Center, comprises five faculty members. As the Sustainability Office, we are working to advance our Çağ University Yaşar Bayboğan Campus, which is ranked among the top 1000 green campuses worldwide, to become an even more sustainable campus in its environmental, social, and economic dimensions. Our aim is to enhance sustainability awareness among our internal stakeholders—primarily our students, academic, and administrative staff—and our external stakeholders, and to make sustainability a standard of living through collaborative efforts.

Our university conducts awareness and sensitivity activities aimed at the efficient and effective use of the planet’s resources. We believe that by working together in our journey towards building a sustainable future, we will achieve success. Your participation and support are crucial to achieving these valuable goals. Our course programs, course contents, social contributions, and research are predominantly integrated with sustainable development goals.

Our university has been making significant progress in the green campus rankings indexed by UI Greenmetrics over the past two years. In our first SIP report, we were ranked 830th among the top 1000 universities based on initial data for 2022. With improvements and developments made at the university, our second report and assessment for 2023 placed us at the 747th position. Our target for 2024 is to be within the top 500 universities. Additionally, on October 14, 2023, we conducted a campaign and informational meetings on e-waste awareness as part of International E-Waste Day, and we were among the 57 world universities participating in this initiative. Eight universities from Turkey participated in this inaugural e-waste campaign conducted by UI Greenmetrics.

We were featured as “The Reporter” by Times Higher Education (THE), and as part of our primary goals for 2024, we are determined to enter our data into THE Impact this year. In our internal evaluation reports, sustainability efforts under social contributions are increasingly focused and aware, particularly through our PRME membership. We are committed to and diligently work on this responsibility through interdepartmental integrations.

 Best regards,

Sustainability Office Coordinator: Prof.Dr. Eda  YAŞA ÖZELTÜRKAY 

edayasa@cag.edu.tr 

00903246514800

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