Developments Awaiting Türkiye to Be Learned from ECOMOD-Bahçeşehir

The Bahçeşehir University Research Methods School (BAYO) and EcoMod, one of the world's leading data-driven modeling organizations, have signed a new collaboration.

Coming together at a press conference held at Bahçeşehir University, EcoMod President Prof. Dr. Ali Bayar and the Bahçeşehir University administration took the first step toward establishing a center in Türkiye for data-driven decision-making and generating data for policies. Thus, for the first time in Türkiye, a center that develops data-based policies will be established, and experts will be trained in economics, politics, policy, education and statistics. Speaking at the meeting, Bahçeşehir University President Prof. Dr. Şenay Yalçın said, "Today we are taking on a new pioneering role. We are launching an important project of the Research School, a first in Türkiye. We will be the Türkiye arm of EcoMod. As Bahçeşehir University, we have decided to establish EcoMod Türkiye within our Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences. This is a first for Türkiye."

ECOMOD-BAHÇEŞEHİR WILL CONDUCT SCENARIO ANALYSIS

Speaking on the BAYO-EcoMod collaboration, Prof. Dr. Ali Bayar, Professor of Economics at the University of Brussels and President of EcoMod, stated that they were excited to establish a center at Bahçeşehir University, which they see as a university with great vision, where they will prepare economic models suitable for systematic, detailed and up-to-date data. Ali Bayar said, "As EcoMod, we work with many institutions and organizations that have a culture of impact and scenario analysis. From now on, with the team we will set up at Bahçeşehir, we will have the chance to collect and analyze extremely detailed data. Before events happen in Türkiye, we will know every possible scenario."

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Selçuk Şirin, BAYO's US Director and a faculty member in the Department of Applied Psychology at New York University, said, "We had been dreaming of this for 10 years. We set out to train researchers. We will conduct the soundest research in Türkiye ourselves."