More than 4800 international education professionals from more than 90 countries attended EAIE's 25th Annual Conference in Istanbul, September 10-13 for an inspiring and energizing week of global knowledge exchange at the bridge between continents. The 25th Annual EAIE Conference in Istanbul has broken all previous EAIE records as the largest conference to date.
On behalf of Bezmialem Vakif University (BVU), Our Rector, Prof. Dr. Saffet TÜZGEN, Our Advisor to the Rector, Dr. Kerem KINIK, Our Erasmus Institutional Coordinator, Assist. Prof. Dr. Atilla AKDEMIR and Our International Relations Office Coordinator, Pınar ELBASAN attended EAIE for the benefit of internationalization of our university and partnership opportunities.
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 many state and foundation universities attended the conference and represented Turkey. Minister of National Education, Nabi AVCI, President of the Council of Higher Education of Turkey (YOK) Prof. Dr. Gökhan ÇETINSAYA, his Advisory team and Board Members also attended opening ceremony of EAIE and visited Bezmialem Vakif University’s and other Turkish Universities’ stands. Furthermore, Bülent ÖZCAN, President of Center For European Union Education and Youth Programs (President of LLP and Youth Programs Turkish National Agency) and Ilyas ÜLGÜR, Erasmus Program Coordinator, and his team attended to conference. The conference which is held annually in September will be held in Prague between 16-19 September in 2014.
