Student Study Trips between IPC-Darmstadt Technical University on Regional Governance

Through the coordination of IPC Executive Board Member Korel Göymen, IPC hosted a group of post-graduate students from Darmstadt University, Germany on 9-13 September 2012. Together with their lecturer Prof. Hubert Heinelt , students attended seminars and had a chance to see historical places in Istanbul. Korel Göymen, Alpay Filiztekin, Sabancı University Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS), and Burcu Özüpek Gülek, Istanbul Development Agency made presentations and led discussion around the theme of “Regional Development in Turkey.” 

Under the coordination of Korel Göymen, since 2008, study trips are organized among German and Turkish students for the bilateral cooperation program between Darmstadt and Sabancı Universities, each year on a different topic. Within this framework, a group of students from Sabancı University will be going to Darmstadt for a three day study trip on the topic “Regional Policy – Germany and Turkey in Comparison” in October 2012.