İstanbul Okan University

About

Istanbul Okan University is a private university in Istanbul, Turkey with 10 faculties, Medical Hospital, Dentistry Hospital and more than 25.000 students. We provide education of vocational, undergraduate and graduate programs as well short- and long-term professional trainings. The motto of our university is being close to the business life. In this respect we do have close relationships between national as well as international companies. Within the university and industry relationship we send our students for internship as well as cooperative learning long term internship to the companies. In addition to them we meet the training needs of those companies and conduct joint research.

Sustainability & Sustainable Development 

One of the focused research areas of OKAN is “Intelligent and Electrical Vehicle Technologies”. The Transport Technology and Intelligent Automotive Systems Research Center (TTIS) was established in 2009 to contribute to intense relevant ongoing research activities in Turkey and in EU, to improve efficiency and to develop intelligent and ultra-low emission transport. Related to this specific research area TTIS developed projects for SAE3 level autonomous vehicles, battery and energy management systems etc. To read more about the university's other sustainability measures, read more on their sustainability website.