11 October 2011, Tuesday \/ BJ\u00d6RN FINKE , \u0130STANBUL<\/p>\n
The new Turkish-German university (TAU) in \u0130stanbul will accept its first students in autumn 2012, Ziya \u015eanal, university rector, said on Monday evening.<\/p>\n
The lectures will take place in provisional buildings, since the university\u2019s premises will not be completed by that time. The foundation of the university, which as many as 5000 students will attend, was laid in Beykoz, a suburb on the Asian side of \u0130stanbul, in October 2010.<\/p>\n
The buildings might not be ready to host the students yet, but the institution already has an emblem. The organizers presented it in \u0130stanbul on Monday evening. The logo was created at the end of a contest among mixed teams of design students at Anadolu University in Eski\u015fehir and RheinMain University in Wiesbaden, Germany. The winning logo features the three initial letters of the university\u2019s name, TAU, in the shape of flower petals. According to its designers, the logo symbolizes the connection between technology and nature at TAU. The institution \u2013 the biggest German university abroad — will focus on engineering, but at the same time will be committed to having a green campus.<\/p>\n
The agreement to establish TAU was signed two-and-a-half years ago between the two countries. At that occasion, the German minister of education and research, Annette Schavan, said that the project could start in autumn 2009. Although this estimate has proven to be overly optimistic, there was a reason for the delay, namely disputes over the prospective curriculum.<\/p>\n
Rita S\u00fcssmuth, president of the consortium representing the German universities involved in the bilateral project, said, \u201cBut now it looks realistic that we can start next autumn.\u201d Rector \u015eanal added that the biggest challenges now are finishing the construction work on campus and acquiring \u201cvery good\u201d faculty members.<\/p>\n
\u015eanal is confident student demand for the university will be high. Both high school graduates from Germany and Turkey can apply. In addition to engineering, economics and law departments, the university will also offer degrees in natural and cultural sciences. The university degrees will be accepted in Germany and Turkey, and the language of education will be mainly German.<\/p>\n
TAU is the first Turkish-German university. Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdo\u011fan would like to see a second bilateral university open its doors. \u201cIf a Turkish-German university is established in \u0130stanbul, why shouldn\u2019t a similar institution start in Germany\u2019s capital Berlin?\u201d he asked in March 2010 when Chancellor Angela Merkel visited Ankara. However, this idea has yet to find followers in Germany.<\/p>\n
via First students of German university in \u0130stanbul to start classes next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
11 October 2011, Tuesday \/ BJ\u00d6RN FINKE , \u0130STANBUL The new Turkish-German university (TAU) in \u0130stanbul will accept its first students in autumn 2012, Ziya \u015eanal, university rector, said on Monday evening. The lectures will take place in provisional buildings, since the university\u2019s premises will not be completed by that time. The foundation of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":83,"featured_media":634077,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6944,7226,3520,7225,7227],"class_list":["post-44991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-germany","tag-berlin","tag-german-university","tag-merkel","tag-tau","tag-turkish-german-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/83"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.turkishnews.com\/en\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}