Honorary Doctorate to ICI Chairman Erdal Bahçıvan

Erdal Bahçıvan, Chairman of Board of Directors of ICI, was awarded an honorary doctorate by ITU in a ceremony held at Ayazağa Campus Süleyman Demirel Cultural Center on November 20, 2023.

Erdal Bahçıvan, Chairman of Board of Directors of Istanbul Chamber of Industry, was awarded an honorary doctorate by Istanbul Technical University in a ceremony held at ITU Ayazağa Campus Süleyman Demirel Cultural Center on November 20, 2023. After the National Anthem and the moment of silence, our Rector Prof. Dr. İsmail Koyuncu said the following in his opening speech:

“As ITU, we are the educational institution that attaches the greatest importance to university-industry cooperation in our country and even in our region and which obtains the most output with high added value and carries out the highest number of joint projects. Cooperation with national institutions and chambers of industry is as important as cooperation with industry.”

Our Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Şule Itır Satoğlu announced the University Senate’s honorary doctorate decision as follows: “We are proud to present Erdal Bahçıvan with an honorary doctorate degree in recognition of his contributions to the sustainable development of the Turkish industry by increasing its competence, to the competitiveness of domestic industrial companies both locally and globally, and to the respectable position Türkiye has achieved in the global business environment.”

After being presented the honorary doctorate certificate, ICI Chairman of Board of Directors Bahçıvan emphasized university-industry cooperation in his speech titled “The Collaborative Academic Journey of ICI-ITU for a Better Industry”: “Since the day I was elected the Chairman of ICI in 2013, we have been working with universities on technological transformation in industry. I would like to express my gratitude on behalf of the Chamber of Industry community to ITU for the support it has given to us industrialists. The ICI-ITU academic journey, which has been going on for ten years, creates project-oriented solutions that make us all proud with its mutual dialog, consultation and outcome-oriented cooperation approach.”