KA171 Projects

(PLEASE NOTE: This program should not be mixed up with the “traditional ERASMUS+ student mobility within Europe).

International Credit Mobility is an activity under Key Action 1 (KA171). A Partner country (non-EU) Institution can send its students and/or staff to Hasan Kalyoncu University (HKU) and the other way around.

Hasan Kalyoncu University is open to all kinds of activities within the scope of the KA171 project. With the help of KA171, higher institutions are able to implement  mobilities with many other countries which are “Partner Countries” of Erasmus+ Programme.

With this activity, higher education students and staff are offered the opportunity to learn or gain professional experience in another country. The main objectives of the activity have been determined as supporting the personal development and employability of higher education students, supporting the professional development of personnel working in higher education institutions and improving the capacities and international dimension of higher education institutions. In addition, supporting individuals in acquiring competences such as activity, knowledge, skills and behavior, strengthening their competence in the field of foreign languages, increasing awareness and understanding about different cultures and countries, developing a sense of European citizenship, establishing international communication networks, It is designed to serve purposes such as ensuring the recognition of qualifications. There are two types of mobility under this activity: Student Mobility: It is the mobility of higher education students from our country to third countries not related to the program, and from third countries not related to the program to our country for the purpose of studying and doing internship. Staff Mobility: It is the activity of academic staff to teach at a higher education institution in third countries not associated with the program and for academic/administrative staff to receive education in a higher education institution in third countries not associated with the program.

Who is the target audience of the project?

The target audience of this activity is the students and staff of higher education institutions studying in formal education programs at all levels (associate, undergraduate, graduate, doctorate).

What is the duration of the project and activity?

Project duration can be 24 or 36 months.

Duration of the activity:

For student activities; from 2 months to 12 months,

For personnel activities; It can be from 5 days to 2 months.

What are the application deadlines?

Applications must be uploaded to the system by February 23, 2023, at 12:00 Brussels time.

Here is a templete to review the format of KA171 projects:

Some information about our university: 

Hasan Kalyoncu University was established in 2008 and reached almost 10.000 students. 10% of the students are international students and are from 30 different countries.

• HKU has 8 faculties, 32 departments, 1 institute, and one school of foreign languages.
• HKU School of Foreign Languages is the fastest accredited Language School in Turkey by the world’s leading authentication provider “Pearson Assured”.
• HKU has a solar power plant using 1MW power and photovoltaic technology installed on the roof of the buildings. We produce renewable energy from the sun. The energy produced by the plant is primarily used for self-consumption.
• According to the Turkey Students Satisfaction Survey of “The Satisfaction of Campus and Life” between 164 universities, HKU took the 14th row.
• HKU has an incubation centre at the Silicon Valley, USA for R&D and innovation activities of the students.
• HKU gives importance to sports activities so that we have a fitness centre on the campus, 1 basketball, 1 tennis, 1 football field. Additionally, HKU built the very first and only golf court in the region.

Library: Hasan Kalyoncu University Library offers service in line with the requirements of education-research programs in compliance with education and research policy.

Events: Aiming its students to be equipped with social, cultural, artistic and scientific values, Hasan Kalyoncu University has launched more than two hundred social and cultural events each year with the motto of “You Can’t Be A University Student by Just Attending the Courses”.

Social Clubs: Our university has many clubs for valuing the extracurricular times of our students with professional, social, cultural and entertaining events. In this way, the students of Hasan Kalyoncu University become active in every field that they have interest in and they get their diplomas as self-confident individuals developing new projects and employing their skills.

Sports: Hasan Kalyoncu University offers all kinds of opportunities to its students for contributing their sportive development, meeting social requirement such as valuing their resting and extracurricular times and ensuring the students to come together and act in the organization

Dormitory: A student dormitory with the capacity of 304 female students of Credit and Dormitories Institution (KYK) is active on the campus. Our dormitory has units that can respond to sportive and cultural requirements such as 24-hour hot water, breakfast and dinner, hairdresser, Internet café, laundry, reading room, canteen, recreation room and fitness center. Apart from this, there are private dormitory alternatives close to the campus

Furthermore, even though some of the departments provide education in Turkish, we fully present our support to exchange and international students / academics in order to remove the language barrier.

Here is the list of the departments in our university;

SCHOOL OF FOREIGN LANGUAGE (ENGLISH)

FACULTY OF EDUCATION:

• English Language Teaching (English)
• Pre-School Education
• Special Education Teaching
• Psychological Counseling and Guidance
• Basic Education

FACULTY OF FINE ARTS AND ARCHITECTURE:

• Architecture
• Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
• Gastronomy and Culinary Arts

FACULTY OF LAW:

• Law

FACULTY OF ECONOMICS, ADMINISTRATIVE AND SOCIAL SCIENCES:

• Economics
• Business Administration
• International Trade and Logistics (English)
• Political Science and International Relations (English)
• Psychology

FACULTY OF COMMUNICATION:

• Visual Communication and Design
• Radio, Television and Cinema

FACULTY OF ENGINEERING:

• Computer Engineering(English)
• Software Engineering(English)
• Electrical and Electronics Engineering(English)
• Civil Engineering(English)
• Machine Engineering
• Industry Engineering

FACULTY OF HEALTH SCIENCES:

• Nutrition and Dietetics
• Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
• Nursing

VOCATIONAL SCHOOL (2-year education, for academics)

• Justice Program
• Anesthesia Program
• Banking and Insurance
• Dialysis Program
• First Aid and Emergency Program
• Civil Aviation and Cabin Services

From 30 different countries, our university is willing to expand its international partners and agreements. As we would like to get more and more international every year, we would be glad to see your students and host your staff at our university in the coming years. We believe that such an agreement would be in favor of our and your students in the future.

We will be looking forward to your answer for the cooperation.