Dr. Vedat Bayram, Assistant Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering has won the prestigious Seal of Excellence award due to his achievement in a project application made to European Commission, Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship. His project titled as “Real-Time Large Scale Urban Evacuation Management”, aims to contribute to U.N. “Climate Action” in building resilience and reducing vulnerability to climate-related disasters and to the “Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction” in that it offers a solution methodology for real-time evacuation of urban areas within European Union in order to further prevent risk and to ensure safety of populations affected by such disasters. The project received a total score of 88.8%. The award is given to project applications with a score of 85% or more from all stringent Horizon 2020 assessment thresholds for the 3 award criteria; excellence, impact, quality and efficiency of implementation.