June 26, 2025

Coordinated by the Science Communication Office of the Council of Higher Education, “Science Café”, the first event of science communication, will be held on June 27-28 with more than 150 universities in 81 provinces.

Erol Özvar, President of the Council of Higher Education, stated that he believes this meeting will make significant contributions to both society, universities and students and said, "On June 27-28, professors will bring science from campus to village squares, fields, historical bridges, hazelnut and tea gardens, trains, ferries and mines. We invite all our citizens to participate in this historical and great meeting."

The Science Café meetings, where thousands of citizens across Türkiye will take part as participants and tens of thousands as viewers through live broadcasts, is the first of its kind in the world. The Science Café event, where citizens from all segments of society will meet with university professors to discuss science, is expected to attract great attention in both national and international media and social networks.

In Science Café meetings, university professors will explain scientific studies to citizens in an easy-to-understand manner in public places.

Professors will talk about interesting topics such as The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Present and Future, Income Distribution in the Ottoman Empire, After Menopause, Negotiation Methods Between Spouses, What Does Stress Do in Our Body?, Neurosound Attention and Perception Enhancement Device, The Effect of Brown Skunk on Hazelnuts, Virtual Addiction, Microplastics: Pollutants of the World, How Do Tumors Form?, First Aid on a Ferry, Bees as the Medicine of the Future, Chemistry of Life, Primary Hyper Blood Pressure, Insects That Make the World Go Round, Photography Training for Village Children in Boğazköy, Podcast and Vodcast Content Production, Chemistry in the Kitchen, Alternatives to Pesticides, New Ways in Cancer Treatments, Radiation Monitoring With Rock Salt, Preventing Calf Mortality, The Story of Tea: From Soil to Cup, On the Trail of the Victory of Malazgirt, Know What You Eat: Nutrition Literacy, Silent Threat: The Tick, Reading Mimar Sinan Through Istanbul, Love and Attachment, The Unique Journey of the Pearl Mullet, Mucilage in the Sea of Marmara, The Contribution of the Minstrelsy Tradition to Turkish Culture, The Search for Water in the Universe, The Door to Space: Is the Sky the Limit?, An Adıyaman Ready for Natural Disasters, Preventing Discrimination Against the Elderly, Proper Bread Making, Agriculture, Tourism, Barter: Green Journey, and Why Have Heart Attacks Increased at a Young Age?

The Science Café meetings will be open to the public, anyone can attend and guests will be offered tea, coffee and cookies as well as products produced at the universities. Participants will be offered a wide variety of products produced at universities, from bread and cakes made from honey products to pancakes, ice cream, yogurt, raw meatballs, Erzurum's göğermiş cheese, meatballs, roasted meat, pestil and Amasya buns.

The aim of the Science Café meetings and science communication is to make the knowledge produced by universities understandable and accessible to the society, to increase trust in science, to make visible the contributions of universities to their cities and regions, the support they offer to the solution of local and global problems, the active role they assume for the future, and to build a bridge between science and society.