A lot of representatives from various universities such as Paderborn University, Bielefeld University, Köln University and Duisburg-Essen University, who give education in Germany, participated in the signing ceremony of agreement signed between Marmara university and Aachen Technical University.
After his opening speech of signing ceremony, Vice Rector of Marmara University Prof.Dr. Mehmet AKALIN began his speech by saying that Germany- Turkey relations are developing in the field of education as well as their historical, socio-cultural and economic relations.
Explaining how much of our university has potential and resources, Prof.Dr. AKALIN mentioned Turkey’s developments in the industrial field and gave the examples from TUBITAK projects. Emphasizing the similarities between Aachen University and our university, Prof.Dr. AKALIN completed his speech by saying "We hope this visit will lead to the cooperations in the various fields."
After Vice Rector’s speech, Minister for Innovation, Science and Research of the German Federal State of North Rine-Westphalia Svenja SCHULZE made her speech by saying “I'm very pleased to be here today”. Reporting that “There are a lot of Turkish students in the German Universities” Minister Schulze also said “We have the connections and agreements with whole world. We also need Turkish students in Westphalia to make this cooperation.”
After Minister’s speech, other participants from various universities of Germany gave speech to introduce themselves briefly.
Bayram ASLAN, Head of Division – Turkey at RWTH Aachen University Institute of Textile Engineering,explained that he has the connections with our Vice Rector Prof.Dr. AKALIN in a long time and said “ We thank you very much for providing us this oppurtunity”.
Prof.Dr. Ute Klammer from Duisburg-Essen University said "Marmara University is the education institution we know well" and told that 16% of their students are foreign national.
Marmara University, International Office, Erasmus Coordinator H.Gökçen ÖCAL, saying that Germany is important partner in our Erasmus programme, added that "Each semester there is an average of 200 students from Germany”.Speaking again after the speeches of the participants, Vice Rector Prof.Dr. AKALIN said that “ I see a lot of project oppurtunities in this field. Especially industrial corporations can contribute to these projects. Marmara University is a big university. From this point, I think the universities can help to take quick action.”
The gift ceremony was held in pursuit of signing of interuniversity cooperation agreement between Marmara University and Aachen University.
