The YTÜ Yıldız Rover Team won the “Best Astronaut” and “Best Team Structure” special awards at the Anatolian Rover Challenge held in Ankara, placing first among Turkish teams and fifth worldwide.

The Yıldız Technical University Yıldız Rover Team continues its work in the fields of space research and unmanned ground vehicles through its successes in national and international competitions. The team achieved a significant success with its performance at the Anatolian Rover Challenge, organized by UKET in Ankara and supported by TUA and TÜBİTAK.

The Council of Higher Education has established the procedures and guidelines regarding the process for students eligible for the “student amnesty” regulation to return to universities. Students whose enrollment at their universities has been terminated or who were unable to enroll in the program they were admitted to will be able to apply until December 9, 2026. Students benefiting from this regulation will be able to resume their higher education in the 2026–2027 academic year.

The IEEE CASMarine Team from Yıldız Technical University, which returned from the TAC Challenge held in Norway with a third-place finish, visited our Rector, Prof. Dr. Eyüp Debik. The students described their journey from sixth place to third place in the world and shared the new goals for the next phase of Velaryon 2.0, the artificial intelligence-powered autonomous underwater vehicle they developed.

The schedule for TEKNOFEST, the eagerly awaited domestic and national technology festival, has been announced. As part of TEKNOFEST 2026, which will take place from September 30 to October 4, 61 competitions will be held across 13 provinces. YTU has secured its place at the festival, which is set to break a new record with 730,000 teams and 1.6 million participants. Our students and faculty members, who competed in the finals with 177 teams in 2025 and earned 27 awards, will once again be on the field. 

The results of the first round of the 2026 1001 Program for Supporting Scientific and Technological Research Projects, administered by the Presidency of Research Support Programs (ARDEB) at TÜBİTAK, have been announced. According to the results, 10 projects led by faculty members at Yıldız Technical University (YTÜ) have been awarded funding.

Yıldız Techno GSYF made an investment of $800,000 by participating in the funding round of Fedu, a company operating in the field of educational technology.

Prof. Dr. Eyüp Debik, Rector of Yıldız Technical University and Chairman of the Board of Directors of YTÜ Yıldız Technopark, met with our technopark companies as part of the Yıldız Tech Meetings. During the meeting, which also addressed preparations for COP31 to be held in Antalya in November, strategies for strengthening university-industry collaborations and YTÜ’s new infrastructure developments and international expansion strategies were discussed.

TÜBİTAK has revised the evaluation criteria for applications to the 2219 Overseas Postdoctoral Research Fellowship Program. Under the new regulations, scientific outputs achieved in the year of application and the two preceding calendar years will be included in the scoring system for the first time. Publications indexed in WoS, Scopus, and TR Dizin, as well as certain international conference papers, will play a role in determining the minimum support score for the first time. 

Yıldız Technical University (YTÜ) is hosting an international summer school program launched as part of its collaboration with the Nizami Gencevi National Pedagogical University in Uzbekistan. Organized with the support of the Turkish World Education and Development Center (TDTİM), the program aims to strengthen international cooperation in the field of education by bringing together academics from Turkey, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan under one roof.

The Yıldız Technical University Solarboat Team will represent Turkey at the Njord Autonomous Challenge, to be held in Trondheim, Norway, from August 3–17, 2026. Having completed months of preparation, the team aims to make YTÜ and Turkey known to the world on the international stage with the autonomous boat they have developed.