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Turgut Özal University is awarded The Erasmus Extended University Charter

Turgut Özal University is awarded The Erasmus Extended University Charter by The European Commission for the year 2012-2013.

The university will start to accept the applications from the students who like to study abroad next year, in April, 2012.

The announcement will be posted on the website .

The students to be chosen for Erasmus exchange programs should have at least

• 2.00 GPA
• Proficiency in English

The applicants is going to be ranged to the lowest according to their GPA and Scores in English.

Please click here to see The Charter 

Turgut Ozal University students and faculty/staff are strongly encouraged to participite in various study abroad and exchange programs designed in collaboration with our global partners. Erasmus program is one of the most popular one of such programs enabling students and faculty/staff throughout Europe attending mobility activities.

Erasmus programme is a European Union education and training  programme which aims to increase the quality of higher education in Europe. For this purpose, the Programme promotes the co-operations between higher education institutions in Europe.   The partnerships and mobility activities are financially supported by the Programme.

Besides HEI co-operations, Erasmus programme promotes the cooperation between HEIs and labour market so that universites would meet the need of labour market and graduates would have better employability opportunities.

The European Commission is responsible for the overall implementation of Erasmus Programme. Actions are managed by national agencies in the 32 participating countries or by Executive Agency for Education, Audovisiual and Culture based in Brussels.

Actions under Erasmus Programme are:

• Mobility Activities
  • Student Mobility (SM)
    • Student Mobility for Studies (SMS) 
    • Student Mobility for Placements (SMP) 
  • Staff Mobility (ST)
    • Staff Mobility for Teaching Activities (STA)
    • Staff Mobility for Training (STT)
  • Organisation of Mobility (OM)
• Erasmus Intensive Language Courses (EILC)
• Intensive Programmes (IP)
• Preparatory Visits (PV)

Detailed information about Erasmus programme can be found on the EU Commission's Lifelong Learning Programme web page linked below:

http://ec.europa.eu/education/lifelong-learning-programme/doc80_en.htm