CoHE Gives R&D and Scholarship Support to Science and Engineering
Students
April 7, 2022 / Ankara
The payment for the support given by CoHE to improve university-industry
cooperation was made for the fall semester of the 2021-2022 academic year.
The support aims to ensure the competencies of students to meet the needs
of the industry and business world, to increase their business skills, to
get to know the job market, to increase applied education and internship
opportunities in higher education, and to strengthen university-industry
cooperation.
The internship fee of 14,201,766.22 TL was transferred to 4,788 students enrolled in the 140 undergraduate programs
in science and engineering of 28 state universities, who completed their
internship in the industry and met the minimum attendance rate of 80% for
the fall semester of the 2021-2022 academic year.
Students were paid 35% of the net amount of the minimum wage for each month
of the training they received in the industry with the contribution of
İŞKUR.
A student who completed one semester (7 plus 1 Project) of their 8-term
education in the R&D center or industrial establishment within the
scope of applied workplace training and went to the workplace for 80
working days was entitled to receive 3,255 TL. The amount differs according
to the number of days the student has worked in the workplace.
The amount of support that a student who has been working for 80 days can
get up to 5,412 TL for the 2021-2022 spring semester.
The universities with the highest number of students benefiting from the
support given to the industrial education of science and engineering
students in the fall semester of the 2021-2022 academic year areBursa Technical University (580 students),Gaziantep University (508 students),Isparta University of Applied Sciences (500 students),Afyon Kocatepe University (402 students),Marmara University (341 students) and Gazi University (302 students).
The support encourages students studying at the undergraduate level in
science and engineering to do a one-term applied training in private sector
enterprises, technoparks, research infrastructures, R&D centers or
industrial establishments related to their fields.
In this context, CoHE notifies universities of the conditions regarding the
selection and support of universities, departments and students, who will
receive industrial education support. The most important requirements are
the reassurance of continued training for one semester for students who
will receive industrial training support, the designation of institutions
and the objective determination of the vocational skills that students will
acquire in industrial training.