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CAMPUS BEAUTIFICATION CONTINUES

With the support of Kayseri Metropolitan Mayor Dr. Memduh Büyükkılıç, the
seating areas within the ERU Medical Faculty campus turned into an area
where our students will have a good time.

GENE GARDEN

As part of the project prepared in partnership with
the General Directorate of Combating Desertification
and Erosion of the Ministry of Environment,
Urbanization and Climate Change and Erciyes

University, a gene garden consisting of 250 wild pear
trees of different genotypes collected from 20
provinces of Türkiye was established. The wild pear
tree, which is drought-tolerant, is of great importance

in terms of global climate change. Minister of Environment, Urbanization and
Climate Change Mehmet Özhaseki,

Governor Gökmen Çiçek, AK Party Kayseri
Deputies Murat Cahid Cıngı, Şaban
Çopuroğlu and Bayar Özsoy visited the
Natural Hawthorn and Wild Pear Gene

Garden together with our Rector Prof. Dr.
Fatih Altun and received information
about the R&D project conducted in
cooperation with ERU and the General

Directorate of Combating Desertification

ERCİYES UNIVERSITY and Erosion.
SUSTAINABILITY REPORT 2023