Nominations for 2021 TÜBA Academy Prizes, launched in 2015 in appreciation and encouragement of eminent scientists, are now open and will be continued to May 21th, 2021.

The report consists of 5 chapters respectively; Introduction, Studies on Climate Change and Public Health, Climate Change and Its Impacts on Public Health, Compliance and Mitigation Policies, and Results and Recommendations. In the editorial board of the report, TÜBA President Prof. Dr. Muzaffer Şeker, TÜBA Members Prof. Dr. İsmail Koyuncu, and Prof. Dr. İzzet Öztürk took place. In addition to the editors, prominent academicians and experts from related fields (Prof. Dr. Hasan Hüseyin Eker, Prof. Dr. Ali Özer, Prof. Dr. Mehmet Emin Aydın, Prof. Dr. Ali Deniz, and Assoc. Prof. Fatih Kara) have given opinions to this report.

Turkish Academy of Sciences (TÜBA) Assessment Report on COVID-19 Global Outbreak was firstly published on 17 April 2020. The report has been updated six times periodically in Turkish.  The latest version of the report has been translated and published in English.

This report has been published in Turkish in June. Determination of the Legal Problems due to COVID–19 Outbreak and Solution Proposals at National and International Level is the topic of this report and prepared by benefitting from the open sources evaluating the national and international developments during the COVID–19 Pandemic.

The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the whole world and continues to transform. The effects of the pandemic have the nature to affect humanity in many ways. Education, health, economy, trade, international relations, political science, the future of institutions, human psychology, sociological transformations, ethical issues are the areas where the effects of the pandemic are felt. In addition, food safety, environment, space and polar studies show that there will be new developments in the new period. Moreover, the entertainment, media and sports sectors have also started to transform after the effect of the pandemic with the technological developments.

As a part of G-20 Leaders Summit, S-20 Final Meeting was held on 26 September using the video conference.

TÜBA Awards, under the auspices of the Presidency, TÜBA Academy Prize, TÜBA-GEBİP (Outstanding Young Scientist) and TÜBA-TESEP (Scientific Authored Book), found their owners. All awards will be given to their owners by President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan at a ceremony to be held at the Presidential Complex.

TÜBA Circular Economy Symposium was held as an online program under the guidance of TÜBA Sustainable Development, Finance, and Environment Working Group and cooperation with Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University and SDSN Turkey and supports from Istanbul Medeniyet University and Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University on 19-20 February 2021.

The 57th General Assembly of TÜBA was held online on 26 December 2020. During the General Assembbly, 5 TÜBA Council Members and 28 New TÜBA Members were elected. 

The meetings of the S20 organization organized as part of the G20 leaders summit are held using the video conferencing method due to the COVID-19 global outbreak. The second meeting of the “Connecting the Dots” group was held on 15 June 2020 accordingly.

TÜBA published version 6.0 of the "COVID-19 Global Outbreak Assessment Report" including 240 pages, which was first prepared as an open source on 17 April 2020 and lastly updated on 4 June 2020.