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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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. 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
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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 in
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.Balkan Spring Education Conference at Edirne May 2010
Rector Enver Duran 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 Pericles A. Mitkas president of BAUNAS. The new additional goal is to work more closely with the network of Black Sea Universities Network (BSUN).


Members


Guest members

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


See also

* National Institutes of Technology – 31 leading public engineering universities in
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Further reading

* Enver Duran: ''Challenges of Higher Education Institutions in the Balkans'', III Balkan Universities Network Meeting, Trakya Universität Edirne Mai 2010, * Manfred G. Raupp: ''Lörrach Symposium - Lörrach Sempozyumu'', Trakya Universität Edirne Mai 2011,


References

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