The seminar we organized with the Koç University Women Rights Club in April 2021 helped us discuss the gender roles of the people of the past by interpreting and commenting on these work areas within the context of gender by investigating and researching the archaeological findings. Our Neolithic ancestors are a great example in the Gender Equality section of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goal. We, Koç University Archaeology and History of Art Club, denoted this aspect with our event.

At the SustainAbility event, held online for the first time on 24-25 April 2021, we discussed sustainability issues in all areas of life. Our event addresses participants who want to preserve the balance of natural life in the world in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. In our SustainAbility event, we host academicians, well-established companies, and start-ups who adopt sustainability principles and are experts in the field of sustainability. Every year, we meet these academicians or companies and in these meetings, we discuss what they do in the field of sustainability in many subjects such as mucilage, the evaluation of factory wastes, hydrogen fuels, cosmetics, agriculture, and iron and steel sectors.

Breast Cancer Awareness Event

In October, which is breast cancer awareness month, KUSWE shared informative posts about breast cancer on its official Instagram account. The tower of Koç University was illuminated with pink light which is the representative color of the breast cancer awareness celebrations. Inspiring from the pink ribbon which is the symbol of the breast cancer, the board members of KUSWE prepared a series of videos in which they highlighted the importance of the early diagnosis with the hashtag #followthepinkribbon and succeeded an effective social media movement.

 

Girls Who Code 

With the Girls Who Code event, we, as the KUSWE, have been teaching coding to successful female students selected from the schools with limited opportunities. Our main goal is to show the support female students need and to encourage them to science, engineering, technology, and mathematics and give them the privilege of studying at the university.

 

8 March International Women’s Day Panel

On 8 March International Women’s Day, Koç University Rahmi M. Koç Medal of Science Recipient Prof. Dr. Filiz Garip was hosted. Furthermore, in this panel, we had a C-level executive, a pilot, a surgeon, and a rally driver with the concept of #BreakTheBias. We listened to the struggles, and experiences of these successful women. 

KU Comedy Group, which set out with the motto of ‘The Humor of Everything’; raises the laughter and wellbeing of KU people with the activities it organizes on campus, off campus, online or face to face. Make your voice heard fun at open mic events, chat in every context of comedy art!

As Koç University Economics Club, we aim to raise awareness about sustainability. As we move towards this goal, we use the Sustainable Global Development Goals published by the United Nations as a guide. On this subject, we organize various seminars throughout the year under the leadership of our Sustainability Committee. For this purpose, we organized a seminar on Green Order and Circular Economy in April 2022. In this seminar, we hosted Eser Erginoğlu, one of the managing partners of Horizan Consultancy. With this event, we aimed to raise awareness about Sustainable Cities and Communities, the 11th Sustainable Development Goal.

 

 

 

 

 

 

As Koç University Economics Club, we aim to raise awareness about sustainability. As we move towards this goal, we use the Sustainable Global Development Goals published by the United Nations as a guide. In line with these goals, we organized a seminar on sustainability at the 2-day Investment Training 22. In this seminar, we hosted TSKB Economic Research Manager Burcu Ünüvar. Burcu Hanım gave information about sustainability with her speech on Green Economy and New World Order.

A conference was conducted from the trans-feminist perspective about Women Rights in Turkey. A discussion held place afterwards which was about improving the women’s disadvantaged position in modern Turkey.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected topics regarding queer issues were discussed based on the academic material to read by the participants. Thereby, empowering a vulnerable community through education. It is also worth noting that a few academicians stopped by to discuss their articles with us.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

International Transgender Day of Remembrance was commemorated by creating a remembrance wall with pictures of transgender people, that have been murdered in result of transphobia, in the Winter Garden.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is an annual festival held in Henry Ford to celebrate our visibility and give courage to the LGBT+ individuals who do not or cannot live their identity openly. The festival is going to consist of music; an exhibition where LGBT+ artists from different universities will have a chance to display their works; a self-defense workshop in company with KU Kickbox Club; make-up workshops; and a movie screening at night. We celebrated the opening of our very first gender-neutral bathroom on the campus in order to eliminate all kinds of discrimination against trans+, nonbinary and any other people that do not fit in binary gender system in private spheres. Also during the festival, all the food served were vegan because of our environmental policies of the Queer Club.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LGBTIQ+s and Careers Seminars

An event was created to encourage the LGBTI+s in seeking professional careers in law and business. So, people from the inclusion departments of Esin Attorneyship and NielsinIQ were invited to our campus to inspire the youth in pursuing professional careers.