Izmir Metropolitan Municipality will provide scholarships and professional experience to 10 university students who will increase urban mobility and develop transportation infrastructure in harmony with nature as part of the SUMP Izmir Project.
In the SUMP Izmir Project initiated by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality to realize a sustainable transportation, 10 university students have been assigned as “Project Scholars” by being included in the SUMP Izmir Project team. The project is being carried out with a grant of €3,192,000, which was obtained by Izmir Metropolitan Municipality as part of the Turkey-European Union Financial Cooperation, with the aim of enabling young people to efficiently change their sustainable transportation habits and pass them on to the future. The activities carried out under the slogan “Move to the Future” aim to meet mobility needs for a better quality of life.
65 students from 20 universities were evaluated
For the project scholarship, Izmir Metropolitan Municipality, Department of Transportation corporate LinkedIn and SUMPİzmir social media accounts were used to inform about the process. The CVs and letters of intent of 65 undergraduate, graduate and doctoral students from 20 different universities from all over Turkey were collected. The applications were evaluated by Kadir Efe Oruç, Head of Transportation Department of Izmir Metropolitan Municipality; Dr. Özlem Taşkın Erten, SUMP Izmir Project Manager; Hamidreza Yazdani, SUMP Izmir Project Coordinator; Attorney Utku Kılınç, Legal Coordinator of the Department of Transportation; and the project’s consortium (MuCosulting). The evaluations were based on four criteria: graduate status, department of graduation, computer programs and language skills. Students who have studied or are studying in the relevant departments of universities; who have experience and/or research work in this field; who have master’s and/or doctoral experience; who are fluent in one or more foreign languages; who clearly express their professional vision in their letter of intent; and who are actually located in Izmir during the fellowship period, as the project work will be carried out in Izmir, are eligible to be included in the scholarship program. Based on the evaluations, 10 noble members of the SUMP Izmir Project Young Scholars were determined.
Experience and support
Of the 10 noble members, 4 were assigned as the research team and 6 as the collaborative team. Those who will take part in the research team will gain experience by participating in project work for 8 hours a day, once a week, and will receive a monthly scholarship of 3,500 TL. Those in the collaborative team will participate in the project work on a daily basis and will receive a scholarship of 500 TL per activity.
Winners of the scholarship
The names of SUMP Izmir scholarship recipients are as follows;
Miray Aslan and Gökçe Demircan from Dokuz Eylül University,
Elia Odabaşı from Ege University
Halil İbrahim Hatun and Zafer Yılmaz from Izmir Bakırçay University
Meryem Nalbant and Hüseyin Kırcı from Izmir Demokrasi University
Melisa Kılıç from Izmir Katip Çelebi University
Fulya Çubukçuoğlu and Fahime Ebania from Izmir Institute of Technology
