The Balkan Universities Network or Balkan Universities Association (BAUNAS) is an association of universities in

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. In its present form the body was created after the

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of the

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and the end of the

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. Association facilitates the regional cooperation in the context of expansion of higher education sector caused by the establishment of new private and public universities (in addition to traditional schools with their existing institutional links). Association helped in the exchange of experiences in the implementation of the Bologna Process at 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 Trakya University ( tr, Trakya Üniversitesi), was established on July 20, 1982. The university is located in Edirne, at Turkey's European side ( Eastern Thrace). Trakya University is a regional university with institutions and schools spread ...

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.Balkan Spring Education Conference at Edirne May 2010
Rector

Enver Duran Enver Duran (born June 19, 1945 in Bursa) is a Turkish medic specialising in thoracic-cardiovascular surgery, a university professor and Chancellor (Rector) of the Trakya University, Edirne 2004-2012 (July) and since 2013 Dean of the Fakulty medi ...

Trakya University Edirne (Turkey), President; Dean

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Trakya University Edirne (Turkey), Vice-President; Rector Faruk Čaklovica University of Sarajevo (Bosnia and Herzegovina), Member; Rector Dhori Kule University of Tirana (Albania), Member; Rector Ioannis P Gerothanassis, University Ioannina (Greece), Member; Rector Anelia Klissarova, Varna Medical University (Bulgaria), Member. In addition to the bilateral meetings, conferences of the Balkan universities take place at changing member locations. The Objectives of the Balkan Universities Association
/ref> 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

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president of BAUNAS. The new additional goal is to work more closely with the network of Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN).

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* Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University Loerrach * University of Graz

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Notes: References: {{Balkan Universities Network College and university associations and consortia in Europe International college and university associations and consortia

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