Exchange Agreement Signed with Japan's Mukogawa University

Bahçeşehir University Signed an Exchange Agreement with Japan's Mukogawa University

8 December 2008

During the study visit to Japan made by Mr. Enver Yücel, Chairman of the Bahçeşehir University Board of Trustees, and the accompanying delegation between 4-14 December 2008, Bahçeşehir University and Mukogawa University reached an agreement on establishing the "Silk Road Universities Union".

On the afternoon of 8 December 2008, an agreement ceremony was held with the participation of Enver Yücel, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Bahçeşehir University of Türkiye, and Okawara Ryo, Chairman of the Board of Trustees, and President Naosuke Itoigawa of Mukogawa Women's University. At the signing ceremony, our Chairman of the Board of Trustees Enver Yücel stated that the Silk Road, which historically enabled the development of commercial and cultural exchange between the two countries at the westernmost and easternmost ends of Asia, should be revived today as a "Road of Science".

The exchange program with Mukogawa Women's University was initiated between the Faculties of Architecture; in May this year, our Dean of the Faculty of Architecture Prof. Dr. Ahmet Eyüce visited the university and gave a presentation on Turkish Architecture. Following this, in October, Prof. Dr. Shigeyuki Okazaki, Head of the Department of Architecture at Mukogawa Women's University, visited our university and our Chairman of the Board of Trustees Mr. Enver Yücel in his office, and the signing of the exchange program was scheduled.

Since our University and Mukogawa Women's University share many similarities in many fields, the aim is to extend the cooperation in architecture to the other faculties of the university through the exchange of teaching staff and students.

Agreement Ceremony (Mr. Enver Yücel, Chairman of the Bahçeşehir University Board of Trustees, and Mr. Naosuke Itoigawa, President of MWU, signing the agreement)

A scene from the meeting before the signing ceremony

Examining the exterior of the Koshien Kaikan building

The room in the Koshien Kaikan building where the tools of master architects are exhibited

Examining the exterior of the new architecture building

Examining the 3rd-year architecture studios

News About the Agreement Published in Japan's Asahi Shimbun Newspaper

AN AGREEMENT AIMING AT AN EXCHANGE PROGRAM SIGNED BETWEEN A TURKISH UNIVERSITY AND MUKOGAWA WOMEN'S UNIVERSITY

On 8 December, Mukogawa Women's University (MWU) signed an agreement aiming at mutual exchange with Bahçeşehir University in Istanbul, Türkiye. It was stated that, through this agreement aimed at the exchange of teaching staff and students between the universities, the intention is to transfer Japan's experience in earthquake-resistantstructuraldesign to Türkiye, also an earthquake country, by making use of the structural systems laboratories of the Mukogawa Women's University Department of Architecture. Prof. Dr. Shigeyuki Okazaki, Head of the MWU Department of Architecture, said that a person who worked in his studio as a research assistant during his time at Kyoto University is now working at the Bahçeşehir University Faculty of Architecture. In May this year, the dean of the faculty of architecture of Bahçeşehir University visited the buildings of the MWU Department of Architecture and gave a presentation to the students.
 

The agreement between the universities was signed by MWU President Prof. Dr. Naosuke Itoigawa and Bahçeşehir University Chairman of the Board of Trustees Mr. Enver Yücel.


Mukogawa Women's University (MWU) Web link:
http://www.mukogawa-u.ac.jp/~arch/event/International/International.html