Koç University, as a leading Research University in Turkey and a center of excellence, hosted 21 out of 37 ERC projects awarded to Turkish universities. Out of these 21 grants, 14 are on engineering topics (electrical and electronics, chemical and biological, computer, mechanical), 5 on social sciences and humanities (sociology,...
Dr. Erdem Yörük’s project, titled “Politus: AI-based Data Platform for Fair Social Policies”, received the European Research Council (ERC) 2022 Proof of Concept (PoC) Grant and has been awarded with €150K grant! This is the first ERC Proof of Concept (PoC) project received in Turkey in the field of Social Sciences. PoC is given...
Alper Gençer and Çağrı Yoltar visited Johannesburg, Pretoria and Cape Town between October 11-21, 2018 to gather more information on the South African welfare system in general, and the workings of the Child Support Grant in particular. They had meetings with the leading scholars of social policy and politics in...
Following months of work on building a protest database for Turkey, now the Work Package 2 team, including a dedicated team of annotators, has started to create training data that will be used to train machine learning based systems that will automatically create protest databases for India and China.
We have commenced a joint-discussion on data availability with the World Bank’s ASPIRe Project team through a Skype meeting.
Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük gave a university lecture, titled “Politics of Emerging Welfare Regimes”, at Jacobs University, Bremen, on September 27, 2017.
Our Principal Investigator Asst. Prof. Erdem Yörük and Supervisor Researcher Asst. Prof. Burak Gürel made a presentation and introduced the Emerging Welfare Project to Indian Institute of Human Development on January 31, 2017.