Istanbul Gelisim University - IGU attended the joint meeting of Turkey and Nigeria

IGU attended the joint meeting of Turkey and Nigeria

Istanbul Gelisim University attended the meeting that made with Nigeria delegacy within the scope of Ministry of Trade Foreign Economic Relations Board of Turkey (DEİK). Cooperations between Nigeria and Turkey for higher education were discussed at the meeting.

As many organizations in the business world was attending the meeting within the scope of DEİK, Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) was the only higher education institution that invited to the meeting on behalf of Turkey. In the meeting that Ambassador of attended, IGU Director of Graduate School of Social Sciences Prof. Dr. İzzet Gümüş, IGU Director of International Students Assist. Prof. Dr. Aysun Kaya and IGU Director of Continuous Education Center (IGUSEM) Assist. Prof. Dr. Fatih Fuat Tuncer made a private conversation with Ambassador of Federal Republic of Nigeria Ilyasu Audu Paragalda who attended the meeting.

“EDUCATIONAL COOPERATION MUST BE PROVIDED”

Ambassador of Federal Republic of Nigeria Ilyasu Audu Paragalda stated that more cooperation between high education institutions of two countries must be developed, expressing that he knows Istanbul Gelisim University’s international achievements and he attaches more importance of IGU for that reason.

Mentioning that there are 2 Nigerian faculty members in the university and 32 enrolled Nigerian students, Director of Graduate School of Social Sciences from IGU Prof. Dr. İzzet Gümüş said:

“We aim to raise the number of our enrolled students to 100 this year and to increase our total number of international students. We will strengthen the links between the two countries with academician and student exchange programs, cooperation of scientific projects and. We were proud of the fact that the only university invited to the interviews was our University. That our efforts and achievements in the name of internationalization are known and appreciated in the international community is another pride for us.”