Gelisim News

CIRIEC is a non-governmental organization with the committee in Turkey represented by IGU, consisting of experts and academics. It aims to create a public, social or cooperative economy that can be an alternative to the liberal market economy, collaborates with scientific studies and professionals, and also conducts various European Union projects.
 

CIRIEC, an international scientific organization on social economy, founded in Belgium in 1947, organizes meetings every year in order to conduct studies for lower income groups in various countries.
 

Istanbul Gelisim University Rector Prof. Dr. Burhan Aykaç stated that scientists from 25 countries attended the meeting and discussed how to make lower income groups high income groups.

Dr. Aysun Kaya Deniz from Istanbul Gelisim University the Faculty of Economics, Administrative and Social Sciences mentioned that she is a member of CIRIEC Turkey National Committee, and gave information about the meeting and continued: “We carry out various academic studies on social economy, social state and public economy through our university. In particular, we shot a documentary on women's cooperatives in Turkey for our meeting. We revealed the importance of women's cooperatives in Turkey and how they contribute to the family budget through their productions by interviewing with more than 10 women in 6 different districts. Our goal as the members of CIRIEC Turkey National Committee is to underline the importance of the concept of social economy, public economy and social state, especially to the university students.”

Istanbul Gelisim University Rector Prof. Dr. Burhan Aykaç stated that CIRIEC is an organization that examines and supports projects of the social and public subjects and continued as follows: “As Istanbul Gelisim University, we want to inform our students about social and public economy, and support scientific studies, acting on the principle of social state in our constitution. This is the second meeting of CIRIEC that IGU has held. Now, there are different scientists from 25 countries attend and we are working on some topics that are preliminary preparation for the congress to be held next year. CIRIEC's main theme is social economy, public economy and cooperatives. It focuses on how to make lower income groups high income or middle income groups, and how they can contribute to the production economy. Since it is seen that lower income groups especially in developed countries are increasingly subdivided, we desire to increase their income levels, establish solidarity among them and spread the social state principle across the country through scientific studies on those.”

 

Bernard Thiry, General Manager of CIRIEC and professor of economics at University of Liege, stated he was very happy to be back in Istanbul and said: “I find this meeting very interesting. It is very valuable to exchange interesting ideas, to have these discussions among the CIRIEC National departments from around the world.”

IGU Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Nail Öztaş said: “CIRIEC that we host today is concerned with what we call social economy, engaging in the times where both the private sector and the state cannot afford while producing, to engage in the subjects where the market and the state fail, to try to produce alternatives, to discuss them intellectually. Therefore, it is an international organization that carries out activities especially on the subjects such as environmental pollution, poverty, migration, and women's economic independence.”