The SDG Report Card Working Group, which was established to more effectively monitor and develop our university's contributions to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), continues its activities actively. Our working group aims to evaluate our university's contributions to sustainability goals with a systematic approach every year and to present this data in a comparable form over the years.

In this context, it is aimed to increase the level of contribution of our university to global sustainability standards, to continuously improve its performance in this area and to share it with the public in a transparent manner. Developments and results regarding the activities of our working group will be shared regularly.

The “Hayat İyi Yaşam Merkezi” established in Malatya Samanköy was deemed worthy of the Jury’s Special Award at the 15th Corporate Responsibility Summit on March 5, 2024. The center has been making a significant contribution by providing health, psychological and social support to thousands of earthquake victims since October 30, 2023.

https://gazete.hacettepe.edu.tr//tr/haber/hayat_iyi_yasam_merkezine_juri_ozel_odulu-526

by Hacettepe University Child Development Application and Research Center and Hacettepe University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Child Development on April 30, 2024. The panel was held at the Red Hall of Sıhhiye Cultural Center between 13:30-15:30. Various important topics were discussed in the panel hosted by Hacettepe University, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hayat İyi Yaşam Center. The topics examined in detail by the panelists are as follows:

• Life is Good Life Center Faculty of Health Sciences Applications
• Malatya Hayat Good Life Center Project Experiences
• Child development in sudden life events
• Understanding the process and identifying needs
• Ensuring coordination and teamwork
• Drawing a roadmap: Identifying developmental needs
• Emotion-focused developmental support and emotion-focused parenting
• Language development support needs of children in earthquake zones

“ECHO Project Sustainable Infrastructure Community Education Program Preparation Workshop” was held on May 6, 2024 at Hacettepe University Sıhhiye Campus.

This important initiative aims to strengthen our university's contributions to sustainability goals through national and international collaborations and to move forward with stronger steps into the future.

cooperation protocols signed between Hacettepe University and the University of New Mexico in June 2024, Hacettepe University has become the implementer of the ECHO Project in Turkey. In the Project ECHO: Hacettepe University project, which will be carried out under the coordination of the Societal contribution Coordination Office, case-based training will be provided in areas determined according to social needs and a community of practice will be created in this way. 

About Project ECHO (https://projectecho.unm.edu ):

• New Mexico Health Sciences Center is a pioneering telementoring and distance learning program designed to develop and enhance the workforce .
• It is an initiative whose primary goal is to de-monopolize knowledge and increase the capacity to deliver best-practice care to underserved people around the world .
• ECHO programs were launched in 2003 with a focus on hepatitis-C treatment. Today, they are implemented with more than 1,200 partners worldwide and participants from approximately 200 countries.
• To date, more than 5 million people have attended ECHO sessions and more than 500 peer-reviewed articles have been published proving the effectiveness of the program.
• According to conservative estimates, more than 200 million patients worldwide have benefited from this treatment model.

Basic Approach of the ECHO Project:

• Ensuring the movement of information: A structure that moves information instead of people.
• Information democracy: Democratizing information and providing equal access to all.
• Solving complex problems: Increasing access to good practice examples in solving complex problems around the world.
• An environment where everyone teaches and learns: A dynamic learning community where everyone contributes.
• Real-time, peer-to-peer, and experiential learning: Immediate feedback and opportunities for collaborative learning.
• Collaborative problem solving: Developing practical solutions to problems through interdisciplinary collaboration .

May 21, 2024 , an online symposium titled “Crises in Health and Social Responsibility Studies” was organized by Hacettepe University Social Responsibility Application and Research Center (HÜSSAM). The aim of this event was to increase social responsibility awareness in the health sector and to develop effective solutions for crises.

At the symposium, crises in the field of health, current social responsibility activities and the needs of vulnerable groups were discussed in detail. Experiences and solution suggestions were shared by academics, experts and representatives of various professional organizations.

https://hussam.hacettepe.edu.tr/sempozyum_210524.pdf

The art exhibition, inspired by the knowledge gained by children on biodiversity and climate change within the scope of a Societal contribution program carried out at İhsan Doğramacı Children's Hospital, was opened to visitors between 22-31 May 2024.

The ECHO project aims to raise awareness about the necessity of sustainable infrastructure. In this project, where physical and social infrastructure will be evaluated together through case examples from earthquake-affected provinces, sustainability principles will be reviewed with national and international experts.

Within the scope of this project, Hacettepe University Sustainable Infrastructure Community Training was organized on June 6, 2024 between 09.30-15.30 at Eskişehir Technical University.

At the meeting held between 20.00-21.30 on 07 June 2024, Societal contribution Coordinator Prof. Dr. Mine Durusu Tanrıöver and Erg. Sümeyye Levent shared the activities and experiences gained at the Hayat İyi Yaşam Center in Malatya, in collaboration with Hayat Holding and Hacettepe University.

The Final Report Meeting of the Impact Assessment Research (EDA) of Hacettepe University Services at the Hayat İyi Yaşam Center (HİYM) was held on 13.06.2024 between 13:30-17:00 at the Population Studies Institute Conference Hall.

In the final report, the impact assessment of the services provided by Hacettepe University in the New Life Container City was completed. The research revealed that women and children benefited from the services intensively and that the services provided increased the level of knowledge, improved physical and mental health, and increased school success. In particular, art, education, and health support had direct positive effects.

The social impact of the services is strong and diverse. While direct effects are concentrated on women and children, indirect effects have enabled children to learn the rules of daily life. In addition, the indirect effects include the fact that HIYM reduces the burden of childcare for women and increases the well-being of volunteer staff.

Catalytic and substitution effects have enabled the services provided by HIYM to spread to areas outside the container city. For example, children sharing what they have learned at HIYM outside has increased women's participation in literacy courses.

These findings show that the services provided by Hacettepe University in the New Life Container City have created broad and deep effects. The recommendations for the university to establish competent teams in post-disaster interventions and the training of the staff shed light on future studies.

The final report can be accessed from this link.

a meeting was held on June 24, 2024 with the participation of Societal contribution coordinator members, unit representatives and Hacettepe University senior management .

• Following the opening speeches, exemplary contribution activities at the institution and unit level were shared.
• Certificates were presented to participants who successfully completed the basic level Turkish sign language training within the scope of the Barrier-Free Hacettepe project.

Certificates were delivered to our staff who successfully completed the Sign Language training program, which was carried out in cooperation with the Disabled Student Unit and Elective Courses Coordination within the scope of the activities of the Societal contribution Coordination. This program aims to remove communication barriers for hearing impaired individuals by increasing the social awareness of Hacettepe University employees and developing their communication skills.

Planetary Health Report Card is a student initiative operating all over the world. This initiative adopts a student-centered and metric-based approach to promote planetary health in schools that train health professionals. A working group of students led by Mert Can Güneş at Hacettepe University Faculty of Medicine has joined this network since 2022 under the mentorship of Prof. Dr. Mine Durusu Tanrıöver. The first evaluation report has been prepared and published for the 2022-2023 academic year. The new report prepared for the Faculty of Medicine in the 2023-2024 academic year shows that our University's grade has increased. As the only pharmacy faculty from Turkey participating in the 2023-2024 academic year for the first time , our Faculty of Pharmacy's evaluation report has been published among ten countries, marking a pioneering initiative.

It is stated that the infrastructure projects to be built in the next decade will determine whether the world will move towards sustainable development and climate adaptation. Therefore, the capacity of practitioners in this field must be rapidly developed before new infrastructure investments. In this context, the Nicholas Institute of Duke University for Energy , Environment and Infrastructure run by Sustainability An academic cooperation protocol was signed between Hacettepe University and Duke University on 26.07.2024 for the implementation of the learning model developed within the scope of the Sustainability Learning (ISLe) Initiative project (https://nicholasinstitute.duke.edu/project/infrastructure-sustainability-learning-isle-initiative) in Turkey. The ISLe project , which aims to help experts and practitioners develop capacity for sustainable and resilient infrastructure by exchanging information and establishing solution-oriented collaboration, creates virtual communities of practice for sustainable infrastructure practitioners.

A sustainable infrastructure community of practice will be established using the Project ECHO model in line with a program designed in line with the United Nations Environment Programme’s International Good Practice Principles for Sustainable Infrastructure under the leadership of Hacettepe University. The main purpose of this program, which will be carried out in Turkey with the cooperation of Hacettepe University Societal contribution Coordination and Lifelong Learning Center and with the participation of expert academics from other universities, is to contribute to the construction of reconstructed infrastructures in line with sustainability principles by providing support to leaders, experts and practitioners who carry out reconstruction works in the regions affected by the February 6, 2023 earthquake.

cooperation in shaping and implementing corporate and social responsibility projects on issues such as education, culture and art activities for the society, protection of art and culture values and activities for conveying them to the society, was signed on 05.06.2024.

The protocol, which envisages the implementation of pre- and post-graduate education programs, curriculum studies, continuous professional development projects; the creation of voluntary impact networks; conducting research on children's rights and global development goals; collaborating in publishing, communication and cultural activities; and organizing joint academic and scientific activities such as scientific meetings and conferences, congresses, trainings, seminars, symposiums, etc., was signed on 01.03.2024.