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Turkey’s universities seek to modernise their financial management: EUIMA workshop at Ankara University (27 September 2010)

September 03, 2010

To become financially sustainable, universities need to be able to identify the full costs of all their activities. EUA’s continuing work on full costing is now taken up by the EUIMA – Full Costing project (“European Universities Implementing their Modernisation Agenda”), which will organise a series of events around Europe. The next country workshop will take place later this month (27 September) at Ankara University in Turkey.

Organised in cooperation with the Turkish Council of Higher Education (YÖK) which has been selected to take on the role of national convenor in furthering full costing implementation in Turkey, the workshop will bring together international experts to work with the leadership and management of Turkish universities, as well as with responsible government ministries and funding bodies.
 
The leadership of some of the biggest Turkish universities as well as the Turkish State Planning Organisation (DPT), Scientific and Technological Research Council (TUBITAK), Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Industry and Commerce and the Turkish Technology Development Fund (TTGV) have already confirmed their attendance at the workshop. The aim of the workshop is to contribute to the development of a coordinated approach to the implementation of full costing among Turkish universities, and to discuss strategic issues such as how to ensure external support to the project. The workshop will also strive to define a roadmap for the implementation of full costing in Turkey, inviting interested institutions to join the follow-up activities.
 
The format of the workshop will be very practical and will draw on examples of best practice in the implementation of full costing in Europe which will be carefully selected to suit the specific needs and conditions in Turkey. It will provide a forum for debate, giving participants the opportunity to discuss the framework conditions needed to implement full costing in Turkish universities and to establish a network for cooperation between institutions.

This workshop is aimed exclusively at participants in Turkey. The event should be of interest to institutional leaders and managers such as rectors, vice rectors, heads of administration and heads of finance departments as well as to representatives of funding bodies and of responsible government ministries.
 
Under the EUIMA project  (which is funded by the European Commission’s Seventh Framework Programme), country workshops on full costing are also planned in Austria, Belgium, France, Germany and Poland. Dates will soon be published on the project website.