INTERNATIONALISATION POLICY
Internationalization
policies play a significant role in helping universities achieve a competitive,
innovative, and productive structure on a global and national scale. Dicle University,
with its strong physical infrastructure, potential for young students and
faculty, status as the region's oldest institution, and historical mission, is
on its way to adopting the most effective methods and instruments for
internationalization. Dicle University's International Relations Office, which
effectively administers Erasmus+ and Mevlana exchange programs, has made
significant modifications to its internationalization policy since 2016. As
shown in the 2024 Strategy Document, Dicle University has collaborated not just
with European Union Program nations, but also with Partner countries outside
the EU, and plans to continue these cooperation in 2024. Long and short-term
student and faculty exchanges, joint projects, conferences and seminars with
industrialized Far Eastern countries, North African and Middle Eastern
countries with which we have strong historical ties, and Central Asian
countries that form the center of Turkish world, are among the most important
aspects of our new policy vision. It is one of the most crucial components.
As part of its new quality policy, Dicle University plans to bring
together international institutions with more students and academics each year
by more efficiently implementing the International Staff Weeks, which it has
successfully done in past years, beginning in 2019. Welcoming prominent
individuals from the field of internationalization to our institution will
enhance contacts and pave the path for cooperation initiatives in the next
years. In this regard, more than 250 academics and administrative staff from 65
EU and non-EU countries were welcomed at our institution as part of the Erasmus
International Staff Week activities, which took place for the sixth time in
2024.
One of our key aims is to
make Dicle University an attractive destination for undergraduate, graduate,
and exchange programs. Erasmus+ is an integral aspect of our Quality Policy.
Our top aims are to grow our exchange students through Erasmus+, to diversify
cooperative projects, and to welcome academics, particularly from Europe's
prestigious institutions, at our university to share their expertise and
experience with our faculty and students. Dicle University has received more
than 50 grants from the Erasmus KA 171 International Credit Mobility program
during 2017 in the following non-EU countries: South America: Chile, Argentina,
Uruguay, and Peru; North America: United States; Asia: Uzbekistan, Indonesia,
Malaysia, India, Nepal, and Vietnam; Eastern Partnership: Ukraine, Azerbaijan,
Moldova, and Georgia, Western Balkans: Bosnia-Herzegovina, Kosovo,
Montenegro, and Albania; Middle East and North Africa: Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia,
Jordan, Palestine, Lebanon, Iraq; Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegal, Ghana, Namibia, South Africa,
Zambia, and Kenya. These initiatives are being carried out successfully.
Dicle University was awarded an EU funding as part of the KA 220 HED
Strategic Partnership projects alongside Universidad Autonoma de Barcolona,
Universita degli Studi di Torino, and Slovak institution of Agriculture in
Nitra, and the project is now being carried out effectively. Every year, Dicle
University enhances the field-based mobility of its students and lecturers to
EU nations as part of the KA 130 Accreditation initiative. In this regard,
scores of our students and professors are dispatched to EU countries each year
to receive/provide internships and training through our grant-eligible programs
in Archeology and Veterinary Medicine. To recruit Dicle University's competent
national and international students and scholars.