• Europe and Migration
• Islam and the West: Bridging the Gap
• Cultural Diversity in Europe
• Politics  (PhD)
• Introduction to Politics

• ERC Advanced Grant (2018). Project title: “Nativism, Islamophobism and Islamism in the Age of Populism: Culturalisation and Religionization of What is Social, Economic and Political in Europe”. The project will last for 5 years between 2019 and 2024. European Research Council Advanced Grant, ERC AdG, Call: ERC-2017-ADG, Type of Action: ERC-ADG, Acronym: ISLAM-OPHOB-ISM, Number: 785934, Duration: 60 months, GA based on the H2020 ERC MGA, Mono - 4.0, Start Date: 01 Jan 2019 – End Date 31 December 2023. Requested EU Contribution:€2,276,125.00
  
• Best Teaching Award at Istanbul Bilgi University, 2017-2018 Academic Year, awarded 5 April 2018.
  
• Fully-salaried sabbatical leave from Istanbul Bilgi University during 2016-2017, spent at the European University Institute (EUI), Florence
  
• Jean Monnet Fellowship, Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence (2016-2017)
• Sabbatical 2016-2017 to be spent in the EUI, Florence

• Success Story Prize for Jean Monnet Chair of European Politics of Interculturalism by the European Commission (2016)
• Best Teaching Award, 2013, Istanbul Bilgi University, 9 January 2014.

• Aziz Nesin Chair, European University Viadrina, European Studies, Frankfurt-Oder, Germany (2013)
• Jean Monnet Chair in European Politics of Interculturalism 2011-2014, awarded by the European Commission
  

• Turkish Academy of Sciences “Best Textbook Prize 2013” for Introduction to European Union (Avrupa Birliğine Giriş) co-edited with S. Aydın, Ö. Onursal and Yaprak Gürsoy.
• Jean Monnet Chair, European Commission (2011-2014) 
• Willy Brandt Professorship 2011-2012, awarded by Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare (MIM), Malmö University, Sweden
  

• Euroactiv News Portal European Award 2009, awarded by Turkey Euractiv
• Jean Monnet Module Europe and Migration 2008-20013, awarded by the European Commission
• Research Award on Internally Displaced People in Turkey, 1001 Program awarded by the Turkish Scientific and Technological Research Council (TÜBİTAK) in 2007
• Winner of the Turkish Academy of Sciences Prize in Social Sciences 2005 (TÜBA-GEBİP Prize)

• Winner of the Sedat Simavi Prize in Social Sciences 2005 (together with Ferhat Kentel, for “Euro-Turks” Book 2005), awarded by the Turkish Association of Journalists

• International Visitors Programme Participant in “Multiculturalism in a Democratic Society”, organized by USA Department of State and Phelps Stokes Foundation, Washington DC (21 April – 15 May 2003)
• Turkish Association of Social Sciences Award, 2003: Best Book, Sicher in Kreuzberg: Berlin’deki Küçük İstanbul, Diyasporada kimliğin oluşumu  (İstanbul: Büke Yayınları, 2000)
• Meawards, awarded by the Population Council, Cairo (2001-2003), for the scientific project on Circassian Diaspora in Turkey
  

• Istanbul British Council Research Grant (1997 Summer);

• German Academic Exchange Grant, DAAD (1996)

• University of Warwick Home Students Only Fee (1996-1997)

• British Government Overseas Research Student Fellowship (1995-1997)

• European Union Jean Monnet Fellowship (1994-1995)

• Honoured Student of the Institute of Social Sciences, Marmara University (1991)

“Jean Monnet Chair”             

“Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence”  

For Publications, see:
https://bilgi.academia.edu/AyhanKaya
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4431-3220