A graduation ceremony is being held to celebrate the completion of secondary education for our 12thgrade students who are eligible to graduate at the end of the 2025-2026 academic year. The purpose of the ceremony is to honor their academic and personal development, reinforce their sense of belonging to the school, and support their motivational transition to the next level of education. The ceremony aims to recognize students' achievements, strengthen teacher-student-parent collaboration, and contribute to maintaining the connection between our graduating students and our school.

The subject of this event, organized for 3rd and 4th-year students seven different departments within IGU (Social Work, Child Development, Audiology, Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Speech and Language Therapy, Psychology), is to convey the fundamental principles (101 Beginner Level) of the international "DIR Floortime" intervention model, used to support the development of individuals with special needs, through a multidisciplinary approach. In this context, our primary objective is to enhance the pre-graduation professional competencies and collaborative teamwork skills of prospective professionals who will work with disadvantaged groups, to provide equal opportunity for our students by offering this typically high-cost training free of charge, and to support a student of ours with special needs in completing their interrupted training process through internal institutional solidarity.

The "Youth's Energy: Yoga & Breathing Day" event, organized as part of the May 19th Atatürk Commemoration, Youth and Sports Day, focuses on students experiencing body-mind balance through yoga, meditation, and breathing exercises. It also aims to improve stress management skills, support mental and physical well-being, and contribute to healthier lifestyle habits by raising awareness

On May 20, 2026, between 3:00 PM and 5:00 PM, a talk titled "The Bridge Between Graduation and Professional Life" will be held with the participation of Özge Özkan Gezergen, Founder and Human Resources Manager of Leap Up Career. The event will be moderated by the Head of Department, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sarp Bağcan. This event is organized to reduce the uncertainties students face after graduation and to enable them to make direct contact with the sector. It will proceed in a talk format with a moderator, and active participation will be encouraged through a question-and-answer session. The speaker will share examples from her own career journey and provide information on recruitment processes, the qualities sought in candidates, and career development. Accordingly, the event aims to raise awareness among participants about the transition to professional life, provide important information from a human resources perspective, and contribute to students planning their careers more consciously.

This event aims to address the diagnosis, assessment, and rehabilitation processes of individuals with vestibular system pathologies through a multidisciplinary lens focused on barrier-free access. Starting the anatomy of the balance system—the foundation of audiology—the integration of biotechnological transformations into clinical practice and the modification of rehabilitation processes, specifically for individuals with additional disabilities (physical, neurological, etc.), will be detailed in the company of expert guests. The core focus points and program content of the event are as follows:Holistic and Current Assessment: Following the physiological foundations of the vestibular system, a comprehensive analysis of diagnostic processes will be presented using current research methods and technological testing protocols. Inclusive Rehabilitation Approaches: Moving beyond standard rehabilitation protocols, the session will theoretically and practically demonstrate how to personalize vestibular rehabilitation and determine case-specific strategies for individuals with visual impairments, orthopedic limitations, or neurological disabilities. Applied Clinical Experience: In the final section of the event, physical challenges faced by individuals with disabilities in clinical settings and solution-oriented rehabilitation maneuvers will be demonstrated to participants through live simulations using requested materials such as stretchers, wheelchairs, and canes. Digital Transformation and the Future: A visionary perspective will be offered on how biotechnological innovations, such as artificial intelligence algorithms in healthcare and autonomous audiometry, will facilitate access to diagnosis and treatment for individuals with disabilities. Through this program, participants are expected to perceive vestibular rehabilitation not merely as a technical procedure, but as an ethical responsibility aimed at ensuring equal opportunity and maximizing the individual's quality of life.

Within the scope of Special Interest Tourism, the aim is for students to visit art museums and become familiar with current tourist attractions.

Raising social awareness about the challenges faced by visually impaired individuals in daily life, including physical, social, and digital accessibility issues.

The student seminar event organized by the Scientific Research Project consists of literature review presentations prepared by the student researchers of the project titled "Türkiye in Western Narratives: Identity, Space, and Cultural Representations in Historical Process." The aim of the event is to evaluate the project's research findings and to enable other students and academicians in the department to benefit academically from these studies

The student seminar event organized by the Scientific Research Project consists of literature review presentations prepared by the student researchers of the project titled "Türkiye in Western Narratives: Identity, Space, and Cultural Representations in Historical Process." The aim of the event is to evaluate the project's research findings and to enable other students and academicians in the department to benefit academically from these studies.

To support the physical development of children with disabilities in a holistic way, strengthen their motor skills, and maximize their athletic potential by considering their individual differences

This event, organized by the Department of Economics and Finance, aims to provide Istanbul Gelişim University students with direct information about postgraduate education processes, academic development opportunities, and the educational opportunities offered within the Graduate Institute. As part of the event, Prof. Dr. İzzet Gümüş, Director of the Istanbul Gelişim University Graduate Institute, will be a guest speaker in Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail Cem Ay's Turkish Economy class, where he will discuss the opportunities offered by postgraduate education in terms of academic, professional, and personal development. Assoc. Prof. Dr. İsmail Cem Ay will moderate the event. The program will cover the role of master's and doctoral education in students' career planning, the academic specialization process, the development of a research culture, and fundamental information regarding postgraduate application processes. In addition, information will be provided about the programs offered by the Istanbul Gelişim University Graduate Institute, its educational structure, and the academic opportunities it provides to students. The event aims to contribute to students' awareness of postgraduate education, to help them shape their career goals more consciously, and to allow them to hear directly from an authoritative source about topics they are curious about regarding academic advancement processes. The event will take place on Monday, May 18, 2026, at 11:00 AM in room J-805. However, due to the busy schedule of our Graduate Institute Director, the event date is entered as June 1, 2026 in the system, and the actual event date is May 18, 2026.

The purpose of the Algerian Student Day Event is to celebrate Algerian culture, heritage, and student identity while strengthening the sense of community within the university. The event aims to provide a platform for Algerian students to share their traditions, customs, and experiences with others, promoting cultural awareness and mutual understanding among students from diverse backgrounds. It also seeks to encourage social interaction, build connections, and create an inclusive environment where students feel represented and valued.

The purpose of the Algerian Student Day Event is to celebrate Algerian culture, heritage, and student identity while strengthening the sense of community within the university. The event aims to provide a platform for Algerian students to share their traditions, customs, and experiences with others, promoting cultural awareness and mutual understanding among students from diverse backgrounds. It also seeks to encourage social interaction, build connections, and create an inclusive environment where students feel represented and valued.

The aim of this event, within the framework of the project conducted under the scope of our University's Research and Development Project Coordination Office, is to bring together guidance counselors working in aviation clubs of state high schools to initiate the drone manufacturing and training process, to provide information about the project, and to create a basis for academic and practical collaboration among the participants. Furthermore, the event aims to support teachers' access to technology, increase their awareness in the fields of aviation and drone technologies, and take the first step towards a sustainable education model.

The event is a food festival aimed at bringing together a variety of street foods to offer participants a rich culinary experience. Featuring a mix of traditional and modern street foods—from kokoreç to chicken pilaf—the event captures the authentic atmosphere of street food. The event’s primary goal is to highlight the cultural value of street food and support local businesses. It aims to provide participants with the opportunity to experience diverse flavors while also fostering a social gathering environment. Additionally, the event seeks to emphasize that street food is not merely a quick meal but a cultural heritage, and to introduce these flavors to a broader audience.

The main aim of the symposium is to enable each department within the Faculty of Health Sciences, within the scope of the competition to be held on 15 May 2026, to approach the city from the perspective of its own professional knowledge, field of expertise, and disciplinary formation; to evaluate urban problems through this specific lens; and to develop its own utopian visions accordingly. In this context, students are expected to address urban issues in a multidimensional way through the concepts of hope, utopia, justice, and coexistence; to make visible the problems that stand out in areas such as health, care, accessibility, solidarity, social inclusion, welfare, and quality of life from the perspective of their own disciplines; and to develop creative, original, and applicable solutions to these issues. By bringing together the professional perspectives of different departments on a common platform for discussion, the symposium aims to encourage students to produce fairer, more inclusive, and more livable urban imaginaries, and to transform these imaginaries into concrete proposals within the competition process.

Kitchen Technology Event

This event, scheduled for May 15, 2026, at the Çerkezköy Public Education Center, consists of a professional development and university promotion program tailored for 70 guidance counselors from the Çerkezköy RAM. The program aims to enhance professional operational processes and educational productivity via a seminar titled "Art Therapy" by Asst. Prof. Dr. Volkan Demir, while also showcasing the university's academic offerings.

/The “Financial Mathematics” training, to be organized in collaboration with the Department of Economics and Finance and the Economics and Finance Student Club, aims to help students understand the fundamental mathematical approaches and calculation methods used in the field of finance, and to evaluate this knowledge beyond the theoretical level through practical application. In today’s financial world, many core topics such as interest calculations, discounting methods, present value and future value analyses, annuities, investment decisions, borrowing costs, and the valuation of financial instruments require a strong foundation in financial mathematics. In this respect, the training offers important content designed both to strengthen students’ academic background and to enhance their professional competencies. Financial mathematics is not only a field that provides numerical calculation skills, but also a fundamental discipline that enables financial decision-making processes to be evaluated in a more conscious, systematic, and analytical way. Within this scope, the training is intended to focus primarily on the logic and foundations of financial calculations, especially the concept of the time value of money, while also introducing students to the basic calculation structures they may encounter in areas such as banking, investment, credit, insurance, corporate finance, and capital markets. In this way, it is expected that students will improve their ability to interpret financial data, evaluate numerical results together with their economic meanings, and analyze financial decision-making mechanisms on a stronger basis. The training will also contribute to students’ ability to reconsider the theoretical knowledge they encounter in their courses from a more practical perspective. Particularly for students of economics and finance, knowledge of financial mathematics is an important area of competence not only for academic success, but also for gaining a competitive advantage in internships, job applications, professional examinations, and future career development. Accordingly, the training aims to strengthen students’ quantitative thinking skills, enhance their financial analysis capacity, and support them in preparing more effectively for the fields in which they may specialize in the future. The training will be delivered by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bülent İlhan and will be held on May 8, 2026 and May 15, 2026, between 11:00 and 13:00. The program, which will consist of two sessions, has been structured in a way that allows students to approach the subject gradually and comprehensively. The training will take place in J Block, Classroom 360, and the quota is limited to 80 participants. At the end of the program, students who attend all sessions will be awarded a certificate of participation. In this respect, the training can be regarded as a qualified learning opportunity that contributes both to students’ knowledge levels and to their academic and professional development processes

The “Financial Mathematics” training, to be organized in collaboration with the Department of Economics and Finance and the Economics and Finance Student Club, aims to help students understand the fundamental mathematical approaches and calculation methods used in the field of finance, and to evaluate this knowledge beyond the theoretical level through practical application. In today’s financial world, many core topics such as interest calculations, discounting methods, present value and future value analyses, annuities, investment decisions, borrowing costs, and the valuation of financial instruments require a strong foundation in financial mathematics. In this respect, the training offers important content designed both to strengthen students’ academic background and to enhance their professional competencies. Financial mathematics is not only a field that provides numerical calculation skills, but also a fundamental discipline that enables financial decision-making processes to be evaluated in a more conscious, systematic, and analytical way. Within this scope, the training is intended to focus primarily on the logic and foundations of financial calculations, especially the concept of the time value of money, while also introducing students to the basic calculation structures they may encounter in areas such as banking, investment, credit, insurance, corporate finance, and capital markets. In this way, it is expected that students will improve their ability to interpret financial data, evaluate numerical results together with their economic meanings, and analyze financial decision-making mechanisms on a stronger basis. The training will also contribute to students’ ability to reconsider the theoretical knowledge they encounter in their courses from a more practical perspective. Particularly for students of economics and finance, knowledge of financial mathematics is an important area of competence not only for academic success, but also for gaining a competitive advantage in internships, job applications, professional examinations, and future career development. Accordingly, the training aims to strengthen students’ quantitative thinking skills, enhance their financial analysis capacity, and support them in preparing more effectively for the fields in which they may specialize in the future. The training will be delivered by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Bülent İlhan and will be held on May 8, 2026 and May 15, 2026, between 11:00 and 13:00. The program, which will consist of two sessions, has been structured in a way that allows students to approach the subject gradually and comprehensively. The training will take place in J Block, Classroom 360, and the quota is limited to 80 participants. At the end of the program, students who attend all sessions will be awarded a certificate of participation. In this respect, the training can be regarded as a qualified learning opportunity that contributes both to students’ knowledge levels and to their academic and professional development processes.

The primary goal of this event is to raise awareness against types of peer bullying that are normalized under the guise of "jokes" or "group dynamics" on university campuses, thereby changing the culture of silence. The project aims to expose methods such as social exclusion, character assassination, and digital isolation, enabling students to not accept these situations as "normal" and to safely intervene against the injustices they witness. The ultimate goal is to transform passive bystanders into "active interveners," building a solidarity-focused and safe university climate no student is academically or socially isolated

This seminar aims to present the academic studies conducted by graduate architecture students and to provide information about the research topics explored within graduate education. Within the scope of the seminar, thesis and project studies carried out in the fields of urban studies, architectural theory, spatial transformation, sustainability, design research, and contemporary architectural debates will be discussed. In addition, the seminar aims to provide undergraduate students with insight into potential research areas, academic processes, and interdisciplinary approaches that can be pursued in graduate education.

This student project is designed within the scope of our "Sustainability and Communication" course, under the coordination of Asst. Prof. İlknur Gümüş. Within this framework, it is a behavioral change and awareness initiative based on interdepartmental competition, aimed at reducing energy consumption within the school ecosystem. Through this awareness project, we aim for volunteer students at our school to take part in a hands-on activity. At the same time, our goal with this activity is to transform sustainability from being merely a course subject into a lifestyle. In this context, energy teams will be established first. Following this, the energy detectives will be given a 2-week period. Then, announced and unannounced inspections will be carried out. Afterwards, the activities conducted will be compiled into photo or video content. These will be forwarded to the relevant units of our university to be shared on social media accounts.

This event will address the importance, functioning, and role of independent auditing in businesses and financial reporting. While emphasizing the principles of trust, transparency, and accountability provided by the independent auditing process for businesses, the duties, responsibilities, and ethical obligations of the auditor will also be comprehensively evaluated. In addition, the effects of independent auditing on the sustainability of businesses, corporate reputation, and stakeholder confidence will be discussed. The purpose of this event is to help students and participants gain a better understanding of the concept of independent auditing and to raise awareness of the auditor’s role, areas of responsibility, and professional importance in businesses. Furthermore, it aims to demonstrate how independent auditing contributes to the presentation of accurate, reliable, and transparent financial information in businesses, while also providing participants who are interested in the fields of accounting and auditing with a professional perspective.

The aims of this project are to increase the knowledge and awareness levels of Architecture, Interior Architecture, and Interior Architecture and Environmental Design students regarding renewable energy sources; to teach them how to integrate renewable energy systems into design processes; to enable students to make informed design decisions on sustainability, environmental awareness, and energy efficiency; and to provide practical and up-to-date examples to address the identified gaps in the academic curriculum on this subject

From Tradition to the Future: Katmer Workshop

The aim of the course is to bring students together with representatives of the business world. Students taking this course will learn real career development experiences by attending lectures given by professionals and entrepreneurs who have had careers in different sectors and business departments and will have the opportunity to develop their own networks. In this way, it is aimed to have the competence to develop their own careers

Project Details: Volunteer for a total of 20 hours at the shelter Feed the animals and assist with their care Help organize the areas Valid from November 15, 2025 to May 15, 2026. What Participants Will Receive: • A Social Responsibility Project Certificate from Gelişim University and English School Avcılar • Free participation in the English School Avcılar Grammar Club for certificate holders!

These artistic events, held at the Istanbul Gelişim Art Gallery, aim to enhance the artistic development of Gelişim University's academic staff and students, and to foster cultural interaction.