Ouality Policies

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Energy Policy

As Bartın University, we adopt the principle of creating a working culture based on sustainability, resource efficiency, and energy efficiency, ensuring effective evaluation at all stages of energy use, acting in compliance with current practices, and implementing the following policies.

In this scope, we adopt as our “ENERGY POLICY”:

1. Awareness and Waste Prevention

Organising training sessions and conducting awareness campaigns to raise awareness among all staff and stakeholders against energy and resource waste,
Making energy efficiency a fundamental element of institutional culture and continuously supporting it,

2. Energy Management System

Establishing and continuously improving an effective energy management system within the university,
Considering stakeholder comfort in energy use, and implementing systematic data collection and monitoring processes,
Monitoring energy performance and conducting improvement mechanisms,

3. Efficient Devices and Systems

Regularly reviewing energy-consuming devices and systems, and preferring efficient ones,
Following technological developments and encouraging the use of energy-saving equipment,

4. Life Cycle Costing

Evaluating not only procurement costs but also maintenance, operation, and energy consumption costs in new projects and renovation works,

5. Reduction of Energy Losses

Detecting energy losses through regular inspections and taking necessary measures,
Planning and conducting preventive maintenance and improvement activities,

6. Compliance with Legislation

Following all current regulations regarding energy efficiency and consumption,
Ensuring compliance by continuously updating policies and practices,

7. Performance Monitoring and Target Setting

Regularly preparing and publicly sharing reports on energy performance,
Reviewing and renewing energy performance targets every year, and providing the necessary resources to achieve these targets,
Encouraging individuals and institutions through performance and savings results,

8. Renewable Energy and Environment

Supporting renewable energy sources and encouraging their use in new projects,
Ensuring environmental sustainability in energy and resource use by evaluating environmental impacts and carbon footprint,

as our “ENERGY POLICY”.

Lifelong Learning Access Policy Document

Bartın University, which pursues and supports lifelong learning activities starting from early childhood, follows the core policy of raising qualified individuals with a sense of self-confidence and responsibility who learn throughout life and contribute to society, science, art, and culture at a universal level through a student-centered approach. In line with this core policy, Bartın University adopts:

Offering and supporting qualified education and training services needed by stakeholders in cooperation with other institutions and organizations,
Creating a culture of organizing social and academic activities for disadvantaged groups at its focus,
Conducting various research studies to continuously improve the lifelong learning activities it carries out and converting these studies into scientific publications,
Developing programs and projects aimed at providing 21st-century skills to all its components and the local community, and organizing activities,
Ensuring access to lifelong learning activities for all its stakeholders regardless of ethnic origin, religion, gender, disability, or refugee status,
Creating learning opportunities for every individual in society through face-to-face, distance, and hybrid methods in accordance with regional and national needs,
Creating lifelong learning opportunities tailored to the needs of international students as a higher education institution with international students,
Creating learning opportunities that will help both students and the local community acquire micro-credentials,
Providing guidance services to individuals for their personal, professional, and social development,

as its “LIFELONG LEARNING ACCESS POLICY”.

Internationalization Policy Document

Bartın University has adopted the mission of raising qualified individuals with a student-centered approach and contributing to scientific, social, and cultural life at the national and international levels with a sense of social responsibility. In line with this purpose, our university aims to develop applications and research at the international level aimed at solving scientific and societal problems, and to become a preferred higher education institution internationally through the quality education it offers. In this context, in line with achieving its internationalization goals, the university adopts:

Designing the scope and content of educational programs in alignment with national and international developments,
Ensuring the participation of students and staff in international mobilities for academic visits and enabling them to acquire new knowledge and experience,
Making the university a center of attraction in terms of international student and staff mobility by making maximum use of national and institutional opportunities,
Conducting joint projects and scientific research with higher education institutions that have high international recognition and scientific capacity, taking into account geographical and field diversity,

as its “INTERNATIONALIZATION QUALITY POLICY”.

Social Contribution Policy Document

In line with its strategic goals and objectives, Bartın University adopts:

Contributing to science, art, and culture with a sense of social responsibility through defined mechanisms at local, national, and universal levels,
Training qualified human resources that will contribute to social development,
Enriching local, regional, and national socio-cultural life through scientific and social activities,
Contributing to social development through lifelong learning activities,
Conducting research and applications tailored to regional and societal needs in cooperation with public, private sector, and civil society organizations,
Ensuring that the university's academic and administrative human resources and students internalize the consciousness of social responsibility,
Making community service, volunteering, and social responsibility activities an integral part of education and training,
Conducting research and applications that will contribute to the formation of environmental consciousness in terms of sustainable society and environment,
Supporting, conducting, and continuously improving activities that contribute to society,

as its “SOCIAL CONTRIBUTION QUALITY POLICY”.

Research and Development Policy Document

In line with the mission of Bartın University aiming to contribute to science, art, and culture at local, national, and universal levels with a sense of social responsibility, it adopts:

Disseminating the research culture among faculty members and students,
Conducting activities to increase researchers' competencies in research and project generation, continuously monitoring and improving research performance,
Determining priority areas by considering national/international policies in the field of science and technology,
Developing defined mechanisms that will increase research and development activities related to our University's specialization field of "Smart Logistics and Integrated Regional Applications",
Increasing interdisciplinary graduate education programs that will contribute to our University's specialization field and qualified research and development activities,
Creating a sustainable system that will ensure research is conducted and projects are generated in line with our strategic goals and objectives,
Strengthening physical, financial, and technical resources to increase the research potential of our University,
Continuously increasing the quality of research and publications conducted to generate knowledge and value, transforming these outputs into societal and economic added value, as well as product development efforts,
Conducting research and development activities through intersectoral cooperation in line with knowledge and technology transfer and our country's development goals,
Supporting regional development through entrepreneurial and innovative activities,
Developing mechanisms to support the production of research and projects based on national and international collaborations,

as its “RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT QUALITY POLICY”.

Education and Training Policy Document

Based on the core policy of raising qualified individuals with a student-centered approach who contribute to society, science, art, and culture at a universal level, learn throughout life, and possess self-confidence and a sense of responsibility, and acting on the understanding of continuous improvement, Bartın University adopts:

Creating and updating educational programs suitable for 21st-century skills, aiming to raise entrepreneurial and innovative individuals,
Offering students various education and training opportunities (double major, minor, exchange programs, etc.) with an interdisciplinary approach,
Carrying out student admissions in line with defined mechanisms,
Implementing active learning-teaching strategies and methods including research-oriented and critical approaches by considering 21st-century learning skills,
Determining the level of achieving the objectives, competence, and learning outcomes of programs through the use of multiple assessment and evaluation methods,
Continuously improving the education and training competencies of teaching staff,
Supporting applied education and training activities within the scope of intersectoral cooperation,
Integrating distance education technologies into the process to provide accessible, enriched, innovative, and flexible learning environments with a student-centered approach that ensures equal opportunity,
Strengthening the guidance and counseling system provided to students,
Regularly monitoring and supporting the employment and career developments of graduates in continuous communication and cooperation with them,
Possessing appropriate resources and infrastructure to conduct education and training activities,
Ensuring that learning opportunities are barrier-free, fair, adequate, and accessible for all students,
Developing cultural diversity, intercultural interaction, and tolerance environments on its campuses; enabling an inclusive higher education experience where disadvantaged groups are supported at the highest level; and ensuring active participation of students and staff in local and international community and decision-making processes by increasing their cultural awareness,

as its “EDUCATION AND TRAINING QUALITY POLICY”.

Management System Policy Document

Based on the approach of transforming quality into an institutional culture by increasing the sense of belonging and stakeholder satisfaction through a participatory management approach, Bartın University adopts:

Ensuring stakeholder participation in decision-making mechanisms,
Continuous improvement through a management approach that takes quality as its basis and aims for the effective use of resources,
Ensuring pluralism, objective decision-making, and the ability to act independently within the management model and administrative structure,
Effectively managing quality assurance, management, education-training, research-development, and social contribution processes in the institution with a leadership approach,
Adopting merit and a fair approach in the management of human resources,
Sustaining social, cultural, sports, and scientific activities that will strengthen the institutional commitment and sense of belonging of academic and administrative human resources, students, and graduates,
Monitoring and improving the conformity, quality, and continuity of goods and services purchased by the university,
Continuously informing the public in line with the principles of transparency and accountability,

as its “MANAGEMENT SYSTEM POLICY”.

Quality Assurance Policy Document

In accordance with Bartın University's mission, vision, and core values, it adopts:

Defining quality assurance and management, education-training, research-development, and social contribution processes in the institution and ensuring their sustainability,
Establishing, planning, implementing, monitoring, and taking necessary measures for the internal quality assurance system of education-training, research and development, social contribution activities, and administrative services,
Internalizing and disseminating the culture of quality assurance in all units of the university,
Ensuring the sustainability of quality and accreditation processes,
Continuously improving the quality assurance mechanism,
Making stakeholder participation continuous in quality processes,

as its “QUALITY ASSURANCE POLICY”.