A top priority for the Science Academy is encouraging the youth to engage in good science, and rewarding the best examples. In order to choose and reward the best young academics and to support them in conducting new studies, an award program was initiated in the year 2013 and its fourth edition was held this year. Science Academy runs this program not with government funding, but with the support of the society at large.

The award-winning young academics are granted 10,000 TL per year for a period of two years to support them in their research. The objective here is to reward the most brilliant and promising young academics with a prestigious scholarship which will help them further their studies.

In 2016, the supporting individuals and institutions included Vehbi Koç Foundation, Elginkan Foundation, Is Bank, Doğuş Holding, Science Academy, Eczacıbaşı Holding, Faruk Eczacıbaşı, Mehveş Demiren, ASC Law Firm, Alp Malazgirt  and Mark de Vries – İdil de Vries.

The award ceremony was held on April 14, 2016 at the METU campus. The complete list of the award winners are below.

We wholeheartedly celebrate these young scientists and their professors, and extend our gratitude to those who have contributed to the expansion of the program.
BAGEP 2016 Winners

Alper Açık Özyeğin University Psychology
Özgür Akarsu İstanbul Technical University Physics
İbrahim Semih Akçomak Middle East Technical University Science and Technology Politics
Bülent Akgün Boğaziçi University Chemistry
Nuray Akın Özyeğin University Economy
Selim Aksoy Bilkent University Computer Engineering
Hakan Altan Middle East Technical University Physics
Erchan Aptoula Okan University Computer Engineering
Gizem Arıkan Yaşar University International Relations
Selim Erdem Aytaç Koç University International Relations
Sreeparna Banerjee Middle East Technical University Biology
Alp Bassa Boğaziçi University Mathematics
Bilge Baytekin Bilkent University Chemistry
Özgür Birer Koç University Chemistry
Ayşecan Boduroğlu Boğaziçi University Psychology
Ayşegül Buğra Koç University Law
Seymur Cahangirov Bilkent University Physics
Barış Coşkunüzer Koç University Mathematics
Hümeyra Çağlayan Abdullah Gül University Physics
Betül Çelebi Saltık Hacettepe University Medicine
Özge Çevik Cumhuriyet University Biochemistry
Muhammed Kasım Diril Dokuz Eylül University Biology
Fabienne Dumoulin Gebze Teknik University Chemistry
Emine Yegan Erdem Bilkent University Mechanical Engineering
Yaprak Gürsoy İstanbul Bilgi University Politics
Emre Işık Kültür University Astrophysics
Menderes Işkın Koç University Physics
Hatice Zeynep İnan Dumlupınar University Primary Education
Mustafa Kalafat Tunceli University Mathematics
Kamil Kıvanç Karaman Boğaziçi University Economy
Sarp Kaya Koç University Chemistry
Aşkın Kocabaş Koç University Physics
Muhammet Erkan Köse Gebze Teknik Üniversitesi Chemistry
Tarcan Kumkale Kadir Has University Psychology
Alptekin Küpçü Koç University Computer Engineering
Tuğba Ölmez Hancı İstanbul Technical University Environmental Engineering
Eren Özceylan Gaziantep University Industrial Engineering
Emrah Özensoy Bilkent University Chemistry
Arzucan Özgür Boğaziçi University Computer Engineering
Güneş Özhan Dokuz Eylül University Biology
Ekin Özman Boğaziçi University Mathematics
Devrim Pesen Okvur İzmir Institute of Technology Biology
Emine Ülkü Sarıtaş Bilkent University Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Yalçın Solak Sakarya University Medicine
Umut şahin Boğaziçi University Biology
Hasan Şahin İzmir Institute of Technology Physics
Urartu Özgür Şafak Şeker BilkentUniversity Biology
Hamdi Torun Boğaziçi University Electrical and Electronics Engineering