Dursun Aydın Özbek, President of Galatasaray Sports Club, who was a guest at the leadership session of the first “Baretim’26,” said he views the presidency of the club as taking on the trust of a community. Özbek, who noted that he had dreamed of one day becoming the club’s president during his years as a boarding student at Galatasaray High School, addressed the students, saying, “Set your goals, dream big, and pursue your dreams with determination.”

Semih İrteş, a YTÜ graduate, architect, and miniaturist selected as one of UNESCO’s “Living Human Treasures,” was a guest on the “Conversations in Honor of the Masters” segment of the “Under the Stars: Culture and Art” series. İrteş shared how the penwork he learned from his father, Süheyl Ünver’s illumination classes, and his architectural education have influenced his designs.

Yıldız Technical University received 29,616 applications for the School of Green Transition and Sustainability, which it established this year as part of its Digital University Platform. The school, which has attracted more interest than expected, offers training to participants from various disciplines through a six-module program ranging from climate policies to clean energy technologies.

The IWA Digital Water Summit 2026, co-organized by Yıldız Technical University and Istanbul Technical University, will bring together the water sector in Istanbul on November 24–26. With YTÜ Yıldız Technopark as the main sponsor, the summit will address the applications of digital technologies in water management.

Students from Yıldız Technical University achieved significant success at the 2026 Turkey STEM Competition, organized in collaboration with Elsevier and the İzmir Institute of Technology (İYTE). In the competition, Asilkan Özdemir, a student in the Department of Surveying Engineering, answered all questions the fastest and won the grand prize as the national champion.