Founded on July 11, 1992[2] in the Aegean city of İzmir, the main fields of study that can be accessed at the İzmir Institute of Technology are science and technology. Within these fields, the university's principal aims are to carry out research, education, production, publication and consultancy, among other things.[3]
Campus
The campus is located on one of the most beautiful stretches of Aegean coast just outside the city of Izmir. Comprising 15,000 acres (61 km2), it boasts an ancient Roman bath, its own waterfalls, olive groves, vineyards, valleys, hills, Mediterranean flora as well as landscaped areas -not to mention the breathtaking sunsets and dawns that must have inspired Anaxagoras as well as the builders of the earliest know olive oil atelier at Klazomenai some ten kilometers from campus entrance. Thus spanning an Edenic natural environment such as Antiquity knew it with expansive research and living premises and the urban facilities of an ancient, yet energetic, city of three million residents, the İzmir Institute of Technology offers a wide range of possibilities for the active, enquiring researcher and for the contemplative intellectual. Living, working, and natural leisure facilities as well as a large variety of student activities and sports are available on campus. Efficient transportation between campus and city centre is provided by the Institute via the İzmir-Çeşme Highway.
IZTECH has 16 academic departments, most of which are organized in 3 faculties.[4] These departments are responsible for the undergraduate programs.
In addition to these, there are Department of Foreign Languages and Department of General Cultural Courses.
Graduate schools
The Graduate School of Engineering and Science is responsible for the postgraduate programs in İYTE.
Research centers
The Center for Material Research
The Center for Material Research houses major analytical instruments like Electron Microscope (SEM-EDS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning Probe Microscope (SPM), DTA-TGA, BET surface area measurement system along with a 250 kN mechanical testing machine. All projects related to materials science and engineering use the center resources at one point. Laboratories dedicated to materials research currently occupy an area of 1500 square meters with the processing done in different parts of the campus and characterization of the produced specimens performed in the Center for Materials and Research. İYTE is well-known for its cutting edge research on advanced materials like composites, ceramics, metals and polymers. There are four dedicated technical personnel in the center each well-trained to use the analytical instruments. More than twenty faculty members support the center via research and funding activities.
Biotechnology & Bioengineering Research Center
Biotechnology and Bioengineering Research Center is an interdisciplinary research center at İYTE. Biotechnology and bioengineering is the area that takes part in the priority objectives of İYTE. The Center for Biotechnology and Bioengineering was established in 2004 as a cooperative research and development partnership between universities, industry, and other interdisciplinary areas. The Center has established collaboration with the other research centers of the İzmir Institute of Technology such as Material Research Center, Environment Research Center and Food Safety Research Center. Therefore the center has established a list of people form the Institute as well as other institutions collaborating with these centers interested in Biotechnology and Bioengineering research. The aim is to expand this list and activate the participation of these people. This center will foster research not only in laboratory level but also make initiations in order to carry over novel projects to industrial level.
Food Safety Research Center
Food Safety Research Center was established in 2004. The Center is a multidisciplinary research group bringing together scientists from the disciplines of engineering, chemistry, and biology. The Center was founded upon idea of the importance of the food safety in the absence of which chronic disease, even death, economic loss emerge as unavoidable consequences.
Geothermal Energy Research Center
The vision of İzmir Institute of Technology Geothermal Research and Application Center includes; to use geothermal energy economical, sustainable and renewable, by the methods which science and technology suggest, around the country wherever possible and so to have a better and healthier environment for our community and lastly to introduce the science and technology of geothermal energy in Turkey.
The University of Bonn (German: Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn) is a public research university located in Bonn, Germany. Founded in its present form in 1818, as the linear successor of earlier academic institutions, the University of Bonn is today one of the leading universities in Germany. The University of Bonn offers a large number of undergraduate and graduate programs in a range of subjects. Its library holds more than two million volumes. The University of Bonn has 525 professors and 27,800 students. Among its notable alumni and faculty are seven Nobel Laureates, two Fields Medalists, twelve Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize winners, Pope Benedict XVI, Heinrich Heine, Karl Marx, Friedrich Nietzsche and Joseph Schumpeter. In the year 2010, the Times Higher Education ranked the University of Bonn as one of the 200 best universities in the world.[2]
In 1969, the independent towns of Bad Godesberg and Beuel as well as several villages were incorporated into Bonn, resulting in a city more than twice as large as before. Bad Godesberg and Beuel became districts (Stadtbezirke) of Bonn with some independence and populations of about 70,000 each.
Bonn remains a centre of politics and administration, however. Roughly half of all government jobs were retained as many government departments remained in Bonn and numerous sub-ministerial level government agencies relocated to the former capital from Berlin and other parts of Germany. In recognition of this, the former capital now holds the title of Federal City ("Bundesstadt").
Bonn has developed into a hub of international cooperation in particular in the area of environment and sustainable development. In addition to a number of other international organizations and institutions, such as, for instance, the IUCN Environmental Law Center (IUCN ELC) the City currently hosts 17 United Nations institutions. Among these are two of the so-called Rio Conventions, the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD). The number of UN agencies in Bonn, most of which are based at the newly established United Nations Campus in the city's former parliamentary quarter on the banks of the Rhine, continues to grow. The most recent agency was started in 2007 in Bonn as the United Nations Platform for Space-based Information for Disaster Management and Emergency Response (UN-SPIDER).
Bonn is the seat of some of Germany's largest corporate players, chiefly in the areas of telecommunications and logistics. Simultaneously, Bonn is establishing itself as an important national and international centre of meetings, conventions and conferences, many of which are directly related to the work of the United Nations. A new conference centre capable of hosting thousands of participants is currently under construction in the immediate vicinity of the UN Campus.
