More than 4000 international education professionals from more than 80 countries attended EAIE's 24th Annual Conference in Dublin, Ireland, September 11-14. On behalf of Bezmialem Vakif University (BVU) Atilla AKDEMIR, Erasmus Instutional Coordinator and Pınar ELBASAN, International Relations Office Coordinator attended EAIE. Higher education professionals who came from all over the world met with each other at the biggest international higher education conference of Europe in order to discover new trends in international higher education, network and exchange knowledge with like-minded professionals, discuss hot topics and develop policies, meet distinguished figures and gain inspiring ideas, innovate, advance the international higher education field and build new partnerships by visiting the conference exhibition.
Within the European Higher Education Area (EHEA) there are some 6000 higher education Institutions. In total some 60.000 people in the EHEA are working in internationalization or related fields. The EAIE’s mission is to help professionalize their members and to actively serve all those involved in the internationalisation of higher education. EAIE supports these professionals through their annual conferences, training courses and publications.
This year within Turkish National Agency, together with Bezmialem Vakif University, 38 public and private universities attended the conference and represented Turkey. Furthermore, Musa CEYLAN, President of Center For European Union Education and Youth Programmes (President of LLP and Youth Programmes Turkish National Agency) and Ilyas ULGUR, Erasmus Program Coordinator, and his team attended to conference. The conference which is held annually in September will be held at Istanbul Congress Center between 10-13 September in 2013.
