OSTİM Chairman of the Board Orhan Aydın, received the Honorary Award given by the University-Industry Cooperation Centers Platform (ÜSİMP). He became the owner of the year.
Aydın received the award on the first day of the "USIMP National Congress, Fair and Symposium" held at the METU Congress Center.
The event, which began with a speech by Prof. Dr. Hamit Serbest, Chairman of the USIMP Executive Board, was attended by Prof. Dr. Hasan Mandal, Deputy Chairman of the Presidential Science, Technology and Innovation Policies Board and Rector of Istanbul Technical University, Prof. Dr. Ahmet Yozgatlıgil, Rector of Middle East Technical University, and numerous other guests.
At the event, OSTİM was represented by Board Chairman Orhan Aydın, Vice Chairman Sıtkı Öztuna, OSTİM External Relations Coordinator Hamza Akca, OSTİM Foundation Director Gülnaz Karaosmanoğlu, [OSTİM Technical University Assistant General Secretary Esra Demirci and OSTİM Technical University TTO Manager, Lecturer. B. Gökhan Topal was present.
At the ceremony moderated by Prof. Dr. Candeğer Yılmaz, the Chair of the USIMP Award Jury, OSTİM Board Chairman Orhan Aydın was presented with an Honorary Award for his leadership in the establishment of OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone, initiating and implementing clustering efforts to increase the competitiveness of OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone, his proactive work in areas such as domestic production, offset, clustering, creating environments to establish public-private sector/university-industry cooperation, project-based product development and localization of manufacturing, and his contributions to regional development and the growth of domestic industry.
“We are one of the most active regions in collaborating with universities”
After receiving the award, Orhan Aydın shared his thoughts: “My excitement increased upon receiving this award. I would like to thank the committee that deemed me worthy of this award. We are very pleased to have been part of such a group since the establishment of ÜSİMP. At this stage, as an industrial stakeholder, we have learned a great deal from here. I want to say that many of the works we have done in OSTİM are based on what we have learned and shared with ÜSİMP. We also take on the tasks we couldn't accomplish here as our responsibility. This also increases our sense of responsibility. Hopefully, we will do even better things with this motivation. We are one of the most active regions in terms of cooperation with universities. We have established our technopark together with 7 universities in Ankara. We truly believe in this. Producing knowledge is not enough; sharing it with industry, producers, and users becomes the most important issue. We are trying to bring this to our region, our companies, and our country. I will work even harder from now on.”
The program also included the presentation of the Commemorative Award to Selahattin Şanbaşoğlu and Prof. Dr. Demir İnan, the Distinguished Service Award to writer Orhan Bursalı, and the New Technology Development and Commercialization Award to Prof. Dr. Aytül Erçil.
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