CoHE Provides Educational Support to Science and Engineering Student for University-Industry Cooperation

October 13, 2022


· A total internship fee of 26,785,680.5​9 TL was transferred to 5,447 students enrolled in science and engineering programs at 31 state universities for the 2021-2022 spring term.

· The universities with the highest number of students benefiting from the support given to industrial education are Manisa Celal Bayar University, Sakarya University of Applied Sciences, Gaziantep University, Gazi University and Isparta University of Applied Sciences .

The support given by CoHE to improve university-industry cooperation was paid for the spring term of the 2021-2022 academic year.

It aims to enable students' competencies to meet the needs of the industry and business world, to increase students' business skills, to allow them to get to know the job market, to increase applied education and workplace training in higher education, and to strengthen university-industry cooperation.

A total internship fee of 26,785,680.59 TL was transferred to 5,447 students, who are enrolled in science and engineering undergraduate programs at 31 state universities, completed their internship in the industry and had an attendance rate of at least 80%, for the 2021-2022 spring term.

With the contribution of İŞKUR, students were paid 35% of the net amount of the minimum wage for each month of the training courses they received in the industry in order to increase applied workplace training.

A student who completed one semester (7 plus 1 Project) of their 8-semester education in the R&D center or an industrial establishment within the scope of internship and went to the workplace for 80 working days was entitled to receive 5,412 TL. The amount differs according to the number of days the student worked at the workplace.

The universities with the highest number of students benefiting from the support given to the industrial education of science and engineering students in the spring term of the 2021-2022 academic year are Manisa Celal Bayar University (1059 students), Sakarya University of Applied Sciences (535 students), Gaziantep University (469 students), Gazi University (363 students), and Isparta University of Applied Sciences (323 students).

With the said support, students studying at the undergraduate level in science and engineering are encouraged to do a one-term applied education in private sector enterprises, technoparks, research infrastructures, R&D centers or industrial establishments related to their fields.

In this context, CoHE communicates the conditions regarding the selection and support of universities, departments and students, who will receive industrial education support, to universities. The most important of these conditions is the commitment of the students who will receive industrial education support to receive uninterrupted education in the industry for a period of time and the objective determination of the vocational skills that the students will acquire in industrial education by carefully choosing the institution they will work for.