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    Aligning sustainable development principles and sectoral education
    (Springer, 2018) Özuyar, Pınar Gökçin; Beyhan, Tugce Baykent; Entrepreneurship; ÖZUYAR, Pinar; Beyhan, Tugce Baykent
    The competitive environment for new graduates to acquire a well-paid and satisfying job position and the long-standing gap between recent university graduates and business requirements as to the skills of these graduates, lead to the creation of a Sectoral Education Program model, involving seven different courses with various learning methods ranging from guest speakers, industry analyses and case studies to company practicum projects. The Sectoral Education Program model is a mandatory part of the curriculum for business students and electives for all other students university wide. Emphasized by the launch of sustainable development goals and trying to find complementary and comprehensive examples of innovative tools for private sector–university partnerships, this continuously developing model accepted one of the foci of the program as sustainable development and devised solutions that embed the teaching of sustainable development principles aligning them with concerns of business. In the embedded approach, the curriculum regarding local sectoral expertise, the crosscutting issues for all sectors from population dynamics, resource scarcity to climate change and even big data are being discussed. Over the three semesters of teaching local sectoral expertise in the light of crosscutting issues, students’ feedbacks have been recorded. Main results show that for university students the phrase sustainability is being overused but still the connotation to the real-world cannot be established. By embedding sustainable development principles directly aligned with the concerns of business sectors, majority of the students think that this know-how would be a skill for them in their future prospects.
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    Lessons learned about the hindering factors for regional cooperation towards the mitigation of climate change
    (Springer Nature, 2019) Özuyar, Pınar Gökçin; Entrepreneurship; ÖZUYAR, Pinar
    As the importance of climate change mitigation and adaptation increases, tools to assist these ranging from training materials, awareness raising event models to company level cooperation tools are being introduced to various stakeholders. These tools can only be effective by extensive utilisation throughout the globe which requires the communication and awareness raising on climate change. The actual implementation and impact assessment of these tools need to be further investigated. Opportunities and barriers for the use of such tools and whether climate change communication is an enhancing or hindering effect is very important in this investigation. As an example for such a tool, an industrial symbiosis model where an unorthodox regional approach is taken rather than close proximity cooperating companies, has been implemented in the Western Black Sea Region countries. The results of the study include three major barriers; namely, lack of regional policy and relevant legislation, trust among companies and a common working language in the region. The effects of other barriers and possible opportunities that would hinder these barriers are discussed in this study including the lack of regional policies on climate change based on one-to-one interviews with selected company representatives in the region. The lessons learned are significant for similar regional exemplary tools of sustainable development and climate change mitigation practices.