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Sevdiklerinizle birlikte şeker tadında musmutlu bir bayram dileriz🌼🌷💐

18 Mart Çanakkale Zaferimiz Kutlu Olsun!

Wishing all incredible mothers love, joy and happiness 🌼🌹 Happy Mother’s Day!

✨”Everything we see in the world is the creative work of women.” Mustafa Kemal Atatürk’s words serve as a timeless reminder that no society can truly advance without the equal participation and leadership of women.

As the METU Alumni Association, on March 8 - International Women’s Day - we celebrate the strength, resilience, and courage of women who continue to move forward and lift others along the way. We stand in solidarity with women who face violence, injustice, and inequality.

We will keep raising our voices for a world where every woman can live freely and every girl can dream without fear. To the strength within every woman: we see you, we honour you, and we stand with you.

Happy International Women’s Day🩷🌼🌹

🚀 How will Robotics & AI shape the near future?

Join us for the Knowledge to Impact Talk Series organised by METU Alumni Association UK.

🎙 Guest Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Erol Şahin
Director, ROMER (Center for Robotics & AI), METU

📅 Date: 2 March, 2026
⏰ Time: 19:00 GMT
💻 Online event
🔗 Register via the link in bio

Optional bursary donations are welcome to support METU students.

🚀 𝗪𝗲 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗽𝗹𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘁𝗼 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗱𝘂𝗰𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗹𝗲𝗱𝗴𝗲 𝘁𝗼 𝗜𝗺𝗽𝗮𝗰𝘁 – 𝗧𝗮𝗹𝗸 𝗦𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗲𝘀, 𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗘𝗧𝗨 𝗔𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗻𝗶 𝗔𝘀𝘀𝗼𝗰𝗶𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗨𝗞.

This webinar series brings together guest speakers from academia and industry to share knowledge, perspectives, and professional experience across disciplines and geographies. 🌍

The aim of the series is to explore how knowledge - whether academic or practice-based - can be transformed into meaningful real-world impact, while fostering intellectual curiosity and cross-disciplinary learning. The series will build a global learning community through shared expertise and promote interdisciplinary and evidence-based thinking while encouraging collaboration across borders and sectors. ✨

𝗨𝗽𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗦𝗽𝗲𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗿𝘀:
• March: Assoc. Prof. Erol Şahin – Director of Center for Robotics & AI (METU-ROMER), Middle East Technical University
• April: Dr. Güner Dinçer Çelik – Director, Head of Quantitative Trading in Fixed Income, Scotiabank
• May: Prof. Oğuz Uzol– Head of METU Center for Wind Energy Research (RÜZGEM), Middle East Technical University
• June: Dr. Başak Yüksel – Global Technical Leader for AI/ML Applied Science, Amazon

The series is open to everyone—alumni, students, and professionals—who value lifelong learning and intellectual curiosity.

Registration details for our March session will be shared soon. We look forward to welcoming you to the series.

Wishing you and your loved ones a Happy New Year filled with health, happiness, peace and new hopes ✨🎉💫

Celebrating 69 Years of METU! 🎉

As the METU Alumni Association in the UK, we proudly celebrate our university’s enduring commitment to science, innovation, and academic excellence. ✨

🎓 ODTÜ ve İTÜ mezunları olarak Londra’da buluştuk!🌟 Yeni dostluklar ve keyifli sohbetlerle dolu harika bir akşam geçirdik. Yenilikçi, güçlü ve fark yaratan mezunlar olarak bir aradayız! 💫