26 APRIL 2016, TUESDAY ARRIVALS, REGISTRATION 27 APRIL

26 APRIL 2016, TUESDAY
ARRIVALS, REGISTRATION
27 APRIL 2016, WEDNESDAY
OPENING CEREMONY
Orhan Alimoglu
Congress Secretary
M. Ihsan Karaman
Congress President
Sultan T. Abu Orabi
Congress President
Rahmi Er
The Council of Higher Education, Turkiye
Ahmet Arif Ergin
President, The Scientific and Technological
Research Council of Turkiye
Ahmet Cevat Acar
President, Turkish Academy of Sciences,
Turkiye
HRH Princess Sumaya bint El Hassan
Jordan
H.E. Numan Kurtulmus
Deputy Prime Minister, Turkiye
10.00 - 11.30
11.30 - 12.00
COFFEE BREAK
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
12.00 - 13.00
Sultan T. Abu Orabi
Congress President
M. Ihsan Karaman
Congress President
Chairs
12.00 - 12.30
• Adnan Badran, Higher Education in Middle East:
Former Prime Minister of Jordan
Where to?
12.30 - 13.00
• Davut Kavranoglu, The Role and Importance of Science,
Technology,
Industry
and
the Universities in the Process of Transformation University Policies Unit, Head Consultant to
into a Knowledge Economy
the Presidency of the Republic of Turkiye
13.00 - 14.00
LUNCH
RESEARCH COOPERATION SESSION
14.00 - 16.00
Fahrettin Kelestemur
President, Health Institutes of Turkiye
Madani A. Dakhil
University of Tripoly, Libya
Chairs
14.00 - 14.20
• Riad B. Chedid, Arab Universities Research
Rafiq Al Hariri University, Lebanon
Agenda: A New Paradigm
14.20 - 14.40
• Sabahattin Aydın, “Research University” Identity
Medipol University, Turkiye
in Turkiye
14.40 - 15.00
• Nabil Kazem Abdul-Sahib, Scientific Research
Al Nahrain University, Iraq
and Research Cooperation
15.00 - 15.20
• Nihad Nassar, Collaboration Opportunities The Scientific and Technological Research
Between Arab and Turkish Researchers
Council of Turkiye
15.20 - 15.40
• Ghassan Aouad, Creating Capacity for
Collaborative Research Between Arab and Turkish Bahrain Applied University, Bahrain
Universities
15.40 - 16.00
• Towards Arab-Turkish Research Programme
16.00 – 16.30
COFFEE BREAK
16.30 - 18.00
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
18.00 – 19.00
OPENING COCKTAIL
Research Coopreation Committee
28 APRIL 2016, THURSDAY
08.30 - 09.30
ORAL PRESENTATIONS
STUDENTS MOBILITY SESSION
09.30 - 11.10
Chairs
• Wael Benjelloun
The Mediterranean Universities
Union, Morocco
• Muzaffer Seker
Necmettin Erbakan University,
Turkiye
09.30 - 09.50
• Abdullah Al Zoubi, Towards an Inner Arab Mobility Program Association of Arab Universities
09.50 – 10.10
• Rahmi Er, Student Exchange Between Turkish and Arab The
Council
of
Universities: Opportunities and Challenges
Education, Turkiye
10.10 - 10.30
• Hossam Badrawi, Universities: "Builders of Civilization or
Cairo University, Egypt
Education Providers"
10.30 - 10.50
• Erkan Ture, Student and Staff Mobility Strategies: How to Istanbul
Close the Gap Between Policy and Practice
Turkiye
10.50 - 11.10
• Towards Turkish-Arab Student Mobility Programme
11.10 - 11.30
COFFEE BREAK
Sehir
Higher
University,
Student Mobility Programmes
Committee
JOINT DEGREE SESSION
11.30 - 13.10
Motaz Khorshid
Former Minister
Education, Egypt
of
Higher
Mustafa Sahin
Gaziosmanpasa
Turkiye
University,
Chairs
11.30 - 11.50
• Sameer Otoom, Joint Programmes: RCSI Medical University
RCSI Medical University, Bahrain
of Bahrain Experience
11.50 - 12.10
• Yavuz Coskun, New Perspective: Programs in Arabic
Gaziantep University, Turkiye
Language at Gaziantep University
12.10 - 12.30
• Dia-Edddin M. Arafah, Joint Academic and Cooperative
Al al-Bayt University, Jordan
Programs
12.30 - 12.50
• Mehmet Karaca, Joint Degree Programme : ITU Experience
Istanbul Technical University,
Turkiye
12.50 - 13.10
• Towards Turkish-Arab Joint Degree Programme
Joint
Degree
Committee
13.10 - 14.30
LUNCH
Programmes
DISTANCE LEARNING SESSION
14.30 - 16.30
Ali Zeidan Abu Zuhri
Arab
American
Palestine
Erkan Ibis
Ankara University, Turkiye
Chairs
University,
14.30 - 14.50
• Faisal El Hag, Open and Distant Learning in Digital Era
Open University, Sudan
14.50 - 15.10
• Huseyin Akan, Distance Education: Present and Future
Samsun 19 Mayis University,
Turkiye
15.10 - 15.30
• Abdallah Al-Mousa, Long Di̇stance Experience
Saudi Electronic University, KSA
15.30 - 15.50
• Abdulkerim Kar, Distance Teaching to Far Away Minds
Marmara University, Turkiye
15.50 - 16.10
• Towards Turkish-Arab Program on Distance Learning
Distance Learning Committee
16.10 – 17.30
Networking Group Interviews and Signing MoUs
17.30 - 18.30
CLOSING SESSION
19.00
GALA DINNER
29 APRIL 2016, FRIDAY
CITY TOUR