İlyas ÜLGÜR Erasmus Coordinator Turkish National Agency

1. Parliamentary Exchange and
Dialogue
Erasmus in Turkey
İlyas ÜLGÜR
Erasmus Coordinator
Turkish National Agency
16 February 2013
Antalya

2. Facts & Figures about Turkish HEIs
HEIs #
State Universities 103
Foundation Universities 65
Vocational School of HE 7
Military Schools and Police Academy 6
# of students at HEIs 2,086,697

3. Bologna Process
• Three cycle system
• Quality Assurance
– EQF, NQF
• Mobility, Recognition, ECTS

4. Turkey: Erasmus Student Mobility
18000
17000
16000
14000
12000 11998
10000 10095
8758
8000 7794 Outgoing
7119 7300
6000
Incoming
5649
4000
4438 4288
3336
2852 2658
2000 1982
1142 1321
828
0 299

5. 0
2,000
6,000
8,000
4,000
10,000
12,000
14,000
DE
6,690 13,684
PL
3,802 9,548
IT
1,559 6,695
ES
1,393 4,988
NL
2,557 4,415
FR
2,479 4,106
CZ
1,138 3,356
SE
449 2,705
421 2,627
781 2,611
378 2,564
894 2,531
464 2,073
PT HU UK BE DK AT
667 1,888
LT
1,706
1,413
FI
304 1,438
1,091
550
3651,050
RO GR SK
832
235
SI 694
252
418
410
BG EE
411
174
IE
23356
344
216
59
1
LV MT LU
7
6
CY
1
40
Incoming & Outgoing SM btw 2004-2012
Outgoing
Incoming

6. Turkey: Erasmus Staff Mobility
4500
4000
3886
3500
3000
2642 2570
2500
2159 Outgoing
2000 2058
1904
1740 Incoming
1595 1649
1500
1378 1321
1184
1000
931
581 666
500
440
339
218
0

7. 1,000
1,500
2,000
2,500
500
0
2,336
1,437
1,776
1,758
1,551
543
1,165
481
1,006
933
822
401
750
653
651
385
640
591
592
460
582
399
480
226
473
417
418
318
403
266
386
335
329
148
300
187
241
162
227
256
213
414
206
139
167
106
42
15
26
2
6
0
0
DE PL IT ES CZ HU LT UK FR RO NL PT BE GR FI AT DK SE SI LV BG SK EE IRL MT CY LU
4
Incoming & Outgoing ST btw 2004-2012
Outgoing
Incoming

8. 27,5
Ireland 49,9
32,1
Denmark 47,0
21,2
Luxembourg 46,1
31,8
Sweden 45,8
40,3
Finland 45,7
31,1
Cyprus 45,1
35,2
Belgium 44,4
42,6
Lithuania 43,8
27,4
France 43,5
29,0
United Kingdom 43,0
26,5
1. Youth on
Netherlands 41,4
29,2
Spain 40,6
30,8
Estonia 40,0
the Move – a Poland
Slovenia
12,5
18,5
35,3
34,8
Benchmark 2020
Flagship initiative of
22,4
EU 27 33,6
18,6
Latvia 32,3
25,7
Germany 29,8
the Europe 2020 Greece
Bulgaria 19,5
25,4
28,4
27,7
Strategy Hungary
Austria
11,3
14,8
15,9
23,5
25,7
Portugal 23,5
10,6
Slovakia 22,1 2000
13,7
Czech Republic 20,4
2010
11,6
Italy 19,8
7,4
M alta 18,6
8,9
Romania 18,1
16.2
Croatia 22,6
32,6
Iceland 40,9
(:)
Turkey 15.5
37,3
Norway 47,3
(%) 0 5 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 45 50

9. 5000
10000
15000
20000
25000
30000
35000
0
Espana 31427
France 25789
Deutschland 25178
Italia 19773
Polska 11572
Türkiye 8993
United Kingdom 8577
Nederland 5946
Belgium 5655
Ceska Republika 5589
Portugal 5031
Österreich 4241
Suomi/Finland 3927
Romania 3503
Magyarorszag 3347
Ellada 2899
Sverige 2846
Lietuva 2583
Slovensko 2052
Swiss Confederation 2052
Danmark 1913
Ireland/Eire 1858
Bulgaria 1549
Norge 1454
Latvija 1384
Slovenija 1199
Eesti 788
Student Mobility for Studies 2010/11
Hrvatska 462
Luxembourg 439
Kypros/Kybrys 249
Island 247
Liechtenstein 35
Malta 0

10. 2011/12 Student Mobility for Studies
1872
2000
1563
1800
1600
1400
1200
938
1000
718
800
579
520
496
481
600
405
401
367
289
242
233
400
205
188
149
136
128
94
92
67
200
50
42
3
1
0
0

11. Student Mobility for Studies:
Areas of Study
2.26% Education
2.90% 3.83% 0.62% 6.53%
Humanities and Arts
13.77% Social sciences, Business and Law
26.34%
Science, Mathematics and
Computing
33.54% Engineering, Manufacturing and
10.22% Construction
Agriculture and Veterinary
Health and Welfare
Services

12. Student Mobility - Gender
43.32
%
SMS
Female
43.88
SM Male
% 56.68
%
SMP
48.46 51.54
56.12 % %
%

13. Student Mobility
2.59% 1.23%
7.85%
Short Cycle
1st cycle
2nd cycle
88.33% 3rd cycle

14. 1000
1500
2000
2500
3000
3500
500
0
Polska 3381
Espana 3254
Deutschland 3002
France 2480
Ceska Republika 2069
United Kingdom 1672
Italia 1629
Türkiye 1512
Romania 1184
Belgium 1120
Suomi/Finland 1112
Magyarorszag 1076
Lietuva 983
Slovensko 876
Österreich 829
Portugal 820
Nederland 756
Swiss Confederation 716
Bulgaria 712
Ellada 564
Latvija 525
Sverige 505
Norge 402
Slovenija 375
Danmark 358
Eesti 262
Ireland/Eire 180
Hrvatska 70
Island 69
Kypros/Kybrys 52
Liechtenstein 7
Luxembourg 4
Malta 0
Staff Mobility for Teaching A. in Europe 2010/11

15. 50
100
150
200
250
300
350
400
450
500
0
469
139
439
151
430
120
359
311
346
61
340
314
335
46
324
130
317
78
275
269
262
290
252
95
245
116
228
97
205
49
203
93
180
30
178
43
177
158
148
35
Student Mobility in 2011/12
143
276
142
203
139
56

16. 0.00%
60.00%
10.00%
20.00%
30.00%
40.00%
50.00%
51.02%
27.11%
24.31%
23.90%
20.00%
18.18%
17.22%
15.04%
13.29%
11.45%
11.37%
11.12%
10.55%
10.52%
10.05%
9.05%
8.43%
8.22%
8.20%
7.92%
7.88%
Erasmus / # of graduates
7.06%
6.95%
6.61%
6.59%
5.85%
5.65%
5.17%

17. Overview of ECTS- DS Label rounds 2009-2011
100
95
90
85 All label applications received by NAs
80
75 All Pre-selected labels
70
65 All Successful labels
60
55
50
45
40
35
30
25
20
15
10
5
0
TR CZ NO FI SE PT LT IT AT FR BE- LV BE- NL RO CY IS PL BG IE UK EL DE DK ES HU SK LU MT SI EE LI
NL FR

18. 2012 ECTS & DS Label Awards
20 19
18
16
14
12 11
10 ECTS Label
DS Label
8
6 6 6 6
6 5 5 5
4 4
4 3 3
22 2
2 1 1 1 1 1 11
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0
AT CZ CY DK FI FR GR IT LT LV MT NL NO PL SE SK TR

19. Opportunities and Obstacles
• Language
• Visa
• Promotion
• International weeks
• Double Degrees / Joint Degrees
• IPs, Networks, CDs, other projects
• Long terms staff exchange
• Shared experience in university business cooperation
• Bologna experience – joint activities
• Possibility of 2nd cycle mobility and staff mobiliy