A committee consisting of HİB and THY President Prof. Dr. Ahmet Bolat, HİB Vice President and Education Services President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın, HİB Treasurer Member Mehmet Erdoğan, HİB General Secretary Fatih Özer and T.R. Ministry of Trade International Services Trade Deputy General Manager Alperen Kaçar, visited Republic of Türkiye Central Bank President Prof. Dr. Şahap Kaycıoğlu in his office. Kaycıoğlu made evaluations of current affairs about Türkiye Economy at the meeting.
The consultation meeting of Service Exporters’ Association which operates under the umbrella of Turkish Exporters Assembly was held on 5th January 2023 hosted by Turkish Airlines.
To the meeting, HİB President Prof. Dr. Ahmet Bolat, HİB Vice Presidents Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın and Salih Zeki Çakır, HİB Treasurer Member Mehmet Erdoğan and prominent representatives of gastronomy-catering and film-series sectors also attended. In the meeting, evaluating the current problems of service sectors and solution offers, plans for recent period works were made.
HİB Vice President and Education Services Committee President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın attended the ceremony which President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced Foreign Trade Figures for 2022.
To the meeting held in Şişli; with President, T.R. Minister of Commerce Dr. Mehmet Muş, T.R. Minister of Treasury and Finance Assoc. Prof. Nureddin Nebati, T.R. Minister of Energy and Natural Resources Fatih Dönmez, T.R. Minister of Industry and Technology Mustafa Varank and Türkiye Exporters Assembly President Mustafa Gültepe also participated.
In his statement, President said “Our exports in 2022 increased by 12.9 percent compared to the previous year and amounted to 254.2 billion dollars. This figure is the record of our Republic history.”
“The Services Export Summit: Education Services’ Export” event was realized within the scope of the Turkish Export Mobilization Project. The summit held with the participation of Republic of Turkey Minister of Trade Dr. Mehmet Muş on 29th December 2022 in İstanbul Turkuvaz Media Center.
HİB Vice President and HİB Education Committee President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın, Turkish Exporters Assembly President Mustafa Gültepe, Republic of Turkey Ministry of Trade International Service Trade General Manager Dr. Emre Orhan Öztelli and Council of Higher Education Vice President Prof. Dr. Haldun Göktaş participated to the panel consisting of two sessions.
On the efficient panel, important information was given about the services sector, our country’s current situation of education services, and actions to be taken. In this, context, the problems and solution offers on the international student recruitment also discussed with an extensive perspective.
The 19th session of conference series titled “HİB Interviews with Commercial Counsellors” that coordinated online by Service Exporters’ Association which operates under the umbrella of Turkish Exporters Assembly, was held on 28th December 2022 with the theme of United Arab Emirates.
The online program, which started with opening speech of HİB Vice President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın, continued with presentations of Abu Dhabi Commercial Counsellor Hikmet Işıl Deniz, Dubai Commercial Attaches Ersoy Erbay and Hacı Hasan Kaygısız.
In the presentation, which includes detailed information on service export in United Arab Emirates; was given place to subjects such as country profile of United Arab Emirates, foreign trade, UAE-Turkey bilateral business connections and service trade, business culture in United Arab Emirates. After the presentation, the questions from representatives of participating companies were answered.
IAU President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın was guest of conversation of Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University and he gave a speech about “career planning”. Having conversation with students about life and career journey Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın shared that ““Career journey” is a field of ‘self-actualization’ for the person. The top of the pyramid in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is self-actualization and individual career building is the one of most important factors of this journey. When a ship’s course is uncertain, it doesn’t matter whether there is wind at sea or not. Same situation is true for the ‘career journey’. It is extremely hard to know at what stage in life at what point should be reached without making as clear a career planning as possible. Therefore, ‘setting clear goals’ is the key element in the road to success.”
Meeting with also Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University Rector Prof. Dr. Mümin Şahin, Aydın exchanged ideas with him about the education. Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın mentioned the value that Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University added to the city, he congratulated the Rector Şahin. And he expressed his gratitude for invitation and their hospitality.
At Istanbul Aydın University, “Academic Motion Action Plan Search Conference” was held with participation of IAU President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın, board of trustee members, rector, vice-rectors, deans, executive and academic staff.
Evaluating the travelled distance in the process of agile transformation, ideas were exchanged in order to move forward the reached point.
Sharing his evaluations at the end of the workshop, IAU President Mustafa Aydın said “We evaluated how we can achieve better with our university administration, academic and administrative staff, and discussed the solution proposals. Thank you to everyone who contributed. Everything is for our students.”
Education Services Meeting of Service Exporters’ Association which operates under the umbrella of Turkish Exporters Assembly was held on 23th December 2022 at TİM Foreign Trade Complex.
To the meeting which held under the presidency of HİB Vice President and Education Services Committee President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın, HİB General Secretary representatives and committee members attended.
Previous meeting declarations were discussed and action plans for 2023 year of HİB Education Committee and solution offers for current problems of international student recruitment process were evaluated.
Turkish Franchising Association Board and Round Table Meeting held with participation of UFRAD President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın, the representatives of Turkish lead brands and TÜYAP Fairs General Manager İlhan Ersözlü. The previous meeting declarations, plans and preparations for 2023 and new collaborations were evaluated at the meeting.
Speaking at the meeting where ideas were exchanged about sectoral developments, UFRAD President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın summarized the current situation of the franchise sector in Turkey and talked about plans for the sector. Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın emphasized brands have to be globalization and he said, “We predict participation of more than 250 local and foreign brands from 40 different sectors and local and foreign visitors more than 20 thousand from 30 countries. We prepared all necessary infrastructure and our roadmap to be able to achieve this near target. Today as UFRAD, with the acceleration we given to our franchising sector which has business capacity of 50 billion, we believe that our sector will continue to be the one of important wheels of our economy in coming years.”
Coming together for the dinner after the round table meeting, UFRAD members mentioned their pleasure with the program’s efficiency and they expressed their gratitude to UFRAD President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın for this useful organization which came together hundreds of brands from different sectors countrywide.
Enlarged Küçükçekmece City Council Board meeting was held on 21th December 2022 hosted by İstanbul Aydın University.
The dinner meeting titled “Problems in Our District and Their Solutions” was held with participation of Küçükçekmece City Council President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın, Küçükçekmece Mayor Kemal Çebi, Deputy Mayor and City Council General Secretary Faysal Güler, District Security Director Gökhan Bambal, District Director of National Education Murat Gözütok, Küçükçekmece local authorities, City Council Executive Committee Members. They mentioned the general problems of neighborhood and solutions.
Listening the current problems in neighborhood Küçükçekmece Mayor Kemal Çebi said, “City Council is a life vein of a city. Therefore, it should be collimator and follower. We hope that we will take steps that will improve our city with local authority, public enterprises and NGO’s together. At the end of the meeting in his assessment, Küçükçekmece City Council President Assoc. Prof. Mustafa Aydın emphasized working in unity and solidarity, expressed his gratitude to all participants especially Küçükçekmece Mayor Kemal Çebi.
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