On 4th March 2022, UiTM once again expanded its international collaboration by signing an MoU with Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU), Turkey.
The signing ceremony aims to express the intention of both UiTM and HKU to cooperate in promoting the enrichment of the institutions’ teaching and learning, research and discovery, as well as engagement missions. Specifically, both parties agreed to also encourage the activities of short and long-term faculty exchange, undergraduate and graduate student exchange, visiting student programmes, administrative support programmes, collaborative research and discovery, learning, teaching and other engagement programmes.
Prof. Ts. Dr. Mohd Ilham Adenan, The Rector of UiTM Pahang Branch said in his speech that this event is not the first collaboration between UiTM and Turkey. As a matter of fact, UiTM has collaborated with Kastamonu University in 2019 and Hayrat Foundation in 2020. He expressed his gratitude as this collaboration will bring UiTM and HKU to another level of sharing expertise, knowledge and technological perspectives.
Representing UiTM, Prof Ts. Dr. Mohd Ilham Adenan has signed the MoU, witnessed by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Nazirah Binti Ramli (Deputy Rector of Academic Affairs), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Wan Nazri Wan Abdul Rahman (Deputy Rector of Research and Industrial Linkages) and Dr. Mohd Kamal Azman Bin Jusoh (Deputy Rector of Student Affairs). Meanwhile, from Hasan Kalyoncu University, the MoU was signed by Prof. Türkay Dereli (Rector of HKU), witnessed by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Lütfi Yola (Vice Rector of HKU), Prof. Dr. Hanifi Çanakçı (Dean for Faculty of Engineering), Prof. Dr. Fatih Hasoğlu (Head of Department for Computer Science), Prof. Dr. Celal Koraşlı (Head of Department for Electric and Electrical Engineering), Prof. Dr. Atilla Elçi (Head of Department for Software Engineering), Mr. Cengiz Helvacıkara (Coordinator-KALİTTO), Mr. Ekrem Tekin (Director-Gaziantep Teknokent), Mr. İhsan Kuyumcu (Coordinator of International Relations), Mr. Simge Gökberk (Erasmus Coordinator), and Mr. Gizem Arık (International Relations Office Specialist).
It is hoped that this initiative will accelerate research activities and globalization in UiTM and Hasan Kalyoncu University. Furthermore, this collaboration could further help in achieving the No. 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which focuses on strengthening and revitalizing the global partnership.