Balkan Universities Network


The Balkan Universities Network or Balkan Universities Association in its present form was created after the end of the SFR Yugoslavia, the founding of new universities, and the implementation of the Bologna Process in Balkan Universities. The aim of the network is the exchange of know how and experience in research and education, mutual acceptance of certificates, encouragement of professors and students for more mobility between the universities and the use of support programs for student exchange. Besides bilateral meetings, conferences rotating between the member universities take place.
The 2010 conference was organized by the Trakya University in Edirne.Rector Enver Duran Trakya University Edirne, President; Dean Hilmi Ibar Trakya University Edirne, Vice-President; Rector Faruk Čaklovica University of Sarajevo, Member; Rector Dhori Kule University of Tirana, Member; Rector Ioannis P Gerothanassis, University Ioannina, Member; Rector Anelia Klissarova, Varna Medical University, Member.
In addition to the bilateral meetings, conferences of the Balkan universities take place at changing member locations. The 2018 meeting took place in the University of Tetovo.
In 2016, the Rector of Trakya University Erhan Tabakoglu in Edirne has taken over the general secretariat of the association.
Since 2018, Enver Duran has been honorary president and Pericles A. Mitkas president of BAUNAS. The new additional goal is to work more closely with the network of Black Sea Universities Network.

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