Directorate of Health, Culture and Sports

My name is Ali Osman Karcı. I am the director of Ostim Technical University Health, Culture and Sports Department (SKS). As the SKS Directorate, we carry out activities that are about the social, cultural and personal development of our students. It is the purpose of our unit to develop activities that support the personal and socio-cultural development of our students. SKS has 3 main fields of activity. In fact, there are 4 of them. These are sports societies, student societies and part-time work. Our psychological counseling and guidance service can be counted as the 4th one. We have carried out our inventory work on our sports communities and we identify our students who have the potential to become national athletes, who do sports as a hobby and who want to perform sports activities in their field of interest. We try to diversify and enrich both our sports fields and activities according to their interests. In addition, we have student societies. We have separated our communities socially and technically. Socially, there are communities for board games, society, culture and cooperation, entrepreneurship and innovation, and, technically, we have communities such as R&D (research and development) and engineering, and defense industry. We consult with these communities frequently. With a participatory policy, we envisage and carry out student societies activities. In addition, there are activities which we organize in order to support our communities. As Ostim Technical University, we are a multinational university. We organize events that provide a basis for our international students to develop activities and projects together with Turkish students. We have an event called International Culture Day that we organize every year. Of course, we do this not only with the students of our own university, but also with national and international diplomacy organizations operating in Turkey. This is an event that we take very seriously. We will continue to organize it every year. In this event, we care about participatory policy. For this reason, we include our students in the process because, as I stated at the beginning of my speech, we care about the cultural, social and personal development of our students as well as their activities that support their professional development. What are these? There are some qualities that we all know: We want to support them to acquire skills such as learning a foreign language, gaining self-confidence, establishing dialogue, and communicating through these activities. Besides, as I mentioned before, we have sports activities. We have created many of our sports teams and we continue to do so. We realize this by making plans to provide services in the sports fields demanded by our studentsbecause we care about the fields in which our students are interested and talented.