ASBU International Office attended the APAIE (Asia-Pacific Association for International Education) Fair in Hong Kong from February 23-27, 2026, to develop its internationalisation strategy, strengthen existing collaborations, and establish new agreements.
Our university was represented at the Social Sciences University of Ankara stand, located in the Study in Turkey pavilion organised by the National Agency. The delegation included the International Office Coordinator, Prof. Barış Alpaslan, and Office staff member, Lecturer Ayşegül Azaklı. On the first day of the conference, our stand was visited by İlker Astarcı, the Head of the National Agency. In addition to our existing partner universities, we also held meetings with other institutions.
On the first day of the conference, we met with the universities below:
- Colombia University (USA)
- Mississippi University (USA)
- Rowan University (USA)
- University of Hawaii (USA-Hawaii)
- Stuttgart University (Germany)
- University of Antwerp (Belgium)
- Hong Kong University (China-Hong Kong)
- Macau Polytechnic University (China-Macau)
- Macau University (China-Macau)
- Macau University of Science and Technology (China-Macau)
- Renmin University (China)
- Xi'an Jiaotong Liverpool University (China)
- Aix Marseille University (France)
- Bourgogne Europe University (France)
- Sung Kyun Kwan University (South Korea)
- Par University of Applied Sciences (Croatia)
- The European Dual Studies University (Croatia)
- Adamas University (India)
- Assam Downtown University (India)
- Karunya University (India)
- Verona University (Italy)
- Tokyo Gakuei University (Japan)
- National University of Science and Technology Politechnica Bucharest (Romania)
- The National University of Theatre and Film "IL Caragiale" in Bucharest (Romania)
- Singapore University of Social Sciences (Singapore)
- King Mongkut Technology University (Thailand)
- Mahidol University (Thailand)
- Vanlang University (Vietnam)
By the end of the day, our team had connected with representatives from 28 different universities across 15 countries. We will continue to represent our university in the Study in Türkiye pavilion at APAIE on February 25-26, 2026.
