BAU Gastronomy and Culinary Arts Becomes a Member of "The Alliance by Institut Paul Bocuse"

The BAU Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts has been accepted into an alliance of the world's leading culinary arts, food service and hospitality institutions.

"The Alliance by Institut Paul Bocuse"was founded in 2004 by "Institut Paul Bocuse" , France's leading culinary arts school, co-founded by the legendary French chef Paul Bocuse. The alliance has 21 gastronomy and tourism schools from 18 countries as members. Established for intercultural knowledge exchange, joint events and research projects, the alliance opens the doors of international knowledge sharing to the students and academics of its member institutions.

Institutions from Bolivia, Canada, Ecuador, Finland, France, Greece, Lebanon, Mexico, Peru, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, Türkiye and the USA are members of the alliance. BAU Gastronomy and Culinary Arts is the first gastronomy department from Türkiye to be accepted into The Alliance by Institut Paul Bocuse.

Following meetings and visits since October 2019, the BAU Department of Gastronomy and Culinary Arts met the alliance's criteria and was accepted as a member.

Member institutions of the alliance benefit from the following opportunities:

- They can send students to the summer school held every summer at the Institut Paul Bocuse campus in Lyon, France.

- Academics can benefit from the exchange program.

- Seminars are organized for academic staff.

- Conferences, webinars and online workshops are held.

- Joint research projects are carried out.

- Annual general assembly meetings are held.

- Various development-oriented activities are organized.