The summer school is organized by the Yildiz Technical University (Istanbul-Türkiye) and

 the Society for Urban Ecology (SURE) in cooperation with Turk and international partners.

It aims at exploring human and environmental challenges and finding solutions for these.

The Istanbul, Europe's highest populations City, serve as the perfect study area for this purpose.

The school will include training on research methodology and group work on various research projects.

Field studies that will focus on urban ecological areas of Istanbul will be carried out as part of the summer school.

The research part will be in connection of the Summer School from 2st till 8st of September.

 

Summer school Program

Sunday, 1 th September	Arrival of the participants at the University of Yildiz Technical University
Monday, 2 th September	Summer School introductory day Coast – the special ecosystem Lectures: 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. 9:00-9:45 Opening Ceremony 9:45-10:45 Why urban wild? Jürgen BREUSTE 10:45-11:00 Short Break 11:00-12:00 Strategies for protection and development of urban green spaces to reduce the effect of heat island and climate changes. Akbar RAHIMI 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:30 City Ecological Areas of Istanbul: The Process of Creating Coastal Parks by Replenishing the Sea, Meryem HAYIR KANAT 14:30-14:45 Short Break 14:45-15:45 Sustainable water management in urban areas. Marc Gimenez Maranges, University of Salzburg, Austria 16:00-16:50 Dr Vickie Tsiotsiou/ Prof. Dr. Jürgen Breuste: Urban trees under water stress: Adaptation strategies in mediterranean (Patras/Greece) and temperate mid-latitude cities (Salzburg/Austria) 17:00-17:50 Flora and fauna trip in the campus area
Tuesday, 3 th September	Urban in Nature – Nature in Urban Lectures: 9:00 a.m. – 16:30 p.m.   9:00-10:20 Wild animals in urban matrix, Christian IOJA, Romania 10:20-10:40 Short Break 10:40-12:00 From urban agriculture to edible cities - nature-based solutions for sustainability transformations? Martina ARTMANN, Germany 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:30 Urban Ecology and Sustainable studies, Arife KARADAĞ 14:30-14:45 Short Break 14:45-16:45 The planning and monitoring of urban green infrastructure development, Iwona ZWIERZCHOWSKA 16:45-17:00 Short Break 17:00-18:00 Political Ecology of Urban Foraging: Towards a More Sustainable and Resilient Cities Prof. Dr. Yılmaz ARI, Bandirma University, Balikesir, Türkiye 19:00-21:00 5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. SURE EC Meeting (for SURE EC members)
Wednesday, 4 th September	Ecology Education in Urban Green and Blue Space Lectures: 9:00 a.m. – 5:30 p.m. Planning of urban eco-spaces as an educational environment and their use for educational purposes 9:00-10:20 Learning from urban nature, Çiğdem COŞKUN HEPCAN 10:20-10:40 Short Break 10:40-12:00 Content based environmental education, Hakan AKÇAY 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:50 Importance of water awareness in urban ecology, Behiye BEZİR AKÇAY 14:50-15:10 Short Break 15:10-16:30 Planning school gardens for ecology education: What can we do to increase students' ecological awareness? Meryem HAYIR KANAT & Çiğdem COŞKUN HEPCAN 16:30-17:30 Fieldwork Groups Meeting
Thursday, 5th September	Summer school fieldwork topics Fieldwork: 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. (9:00-18:00) ·       Group 1: Belgrad Forest as a recreational area and a source of drinking water for the city ·       Group 2: Urban agriculture: hobby gardens and commercial farming in Istanbul city walls / Bahçetepe residence hobby gardens (Basaksehir-Istanbul) ·      Group 3: Istanbul's Beach Parks and infrastructure services in these parks ·      Group 4: Wild animals in urban matrix feral dogs and cats
Friday, 6th September	Processing project data and preparing project presentations/posters: 9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. Presentations: 3:00 p.m-6:00 p.m 9:00-10:20 Processing project data and preparing project presentations/posters 10:20-10:40 Short Break 10:40-12:00 Processing project data and preparing project presentations/posters 12:00-13:30 Lunch 13:30-14:45 Processing project data and preparing project presentations/posters 14:45-15:00 Short Break 15:00-18:00   Presentations (4X45)
Saturday, 7th September	9:00 am-18:00 p.m Coast Experience –Excursion Day to the Prince Islands, Adalar-Istanbul
Sunday, 8th September	Departure or further work in Research Training

 

 

How to apply?

 

For the summer school, a completed basic education in the fields of geography, biology,

urban and regional planning, landscape architecture, natural sciences teaching and

social sciences teaching of the training is required. Further postgraduate education is preferred.

In order to participate on the Summer School, you need to submit a short CV and motivation letter.

The application deadline is 30 April 2024

 

Application: summerschool.istanbul.2024@gmail.com

Web Site : https://www.sureturkiye.org

 

SURE Summer School 2024 Yıldız Technical University Davutpaşa Campus 3420 Esenler-Istanbul-Turkey summerschool.istanbul.2024@gmail.com summerschool.istanbul.2024.yildiz.edu.tr

Summer School Registration Team Research Assistants, Department of Social Science Education ·         Tuğçe CÖMERT (PhD student) ·         Mehmet Umut AKBAKLA (PhD student) ·         Assist. Prof. Dr. Fatih ÖZDEMIR

 

Summer School academic directors:

Prof. Dr. Meryem HAYIR KANAT, mhayir@yildiz.edu.tr meryemhayir@gmail.com Yildiz Technical University, Social Science Education

Prof. Dr. Jürgen Breuste juergen.breuste@sbg.ac.at University of Salzburg, Leader of the Research group Urban landscape ecology

 

Scientists to teach in summer school

Univ.-Prof. Dr. Jürgen BREUSTE, University of Salzburg, Austria

Prof. Dr. Meryem HAYIR KANAT, Yildiz Technical University, Türkiye

Prof. Dr. Cristian IOJA, University of Bucharest, Rumania

Prof. Dr. Çiğdem COŞKUN HEPCAN, Ege University, İzmir- Türkiye

Prof. Dr. Arife KARADAĞ, Katip Çelebi University, İzmir-Türkiye

Prof. Dr. Hakan AKÇAY, Bogazici University, İstanbul-Turkiye

Prof. Dr. Behiye BEZİR AKÇAY, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, İstanbul-Turkiye

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Akbar RAHİMİ, Tabriz university, Iranian

Prof Dr. Martina ARTMANN, Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Germany

Assist. Prof. Dr. Iwona ZWIERZCHOWSKA, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań (Poland)

Dr. Marc Jimenez MARANGES, University of Salzburg, Austria

Dr Vickie TSIOTSIOU, Patras (Greece)

Prof. Dr. Yılmaz ARI, Bandirma University, Balikesir, Türkiye

Summer school fieldwork executors

Prof. Dr. Hakan AKÇAY, Bogazici University, İstanbul-Turkiye

Prof. Dr. Aslı GÖRGÜLÜ ARI, Yildiz Technical University, İstanbul- Türkiye

Prof. Dr. Behiye BEZİR AKÇAY, Istanbul University-Cerrahpasa, İstanbul-Turkiye

Prof. Meryem HAYIR KANAT, Yildiz Technical University, İstanbul- Türkiye

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