EUROAVİA AS KOCAELI
EUROAVIA HISTORY
Euroavia, which includes more than 2000 students from 42 different universities in 18 different European countries, its main aim is; It is a community that aims to create a bridge between companies, students and universities and has maintained this goal since 1959.
Gebze Technical University Aviation and Space Society Euroavia Committee was entitled to be PAS (Prospective Affiliated Societies) Kocaeli as a result of the conferences it participated in in 2019. With the Hot Wings Symposium held in Gebze Technical University, it has increased its presence in Euroavia. In May 2019 were invited to the event in Germany, with voting and presentation AS (Affiliated Societies) Euroavia’s take the name of Kocaeli in Turkey has been one of the four representatives. In this direction, the Euroavia Committee, which was established in 2019, aims to establish strong ties with students abroad, which is the main mission of Euroavia.
Euroavia Events
LUSTRUM&EMEAC 2019 Aachen
Our friends attended the Euroavia's Emeac (Electoral Meeting of EUROAVIA Congress) congress, which took place in Aachen, Germany, between May 3-11. During this congress, our friends, who had the chance to travel as well as business meetings, also celebrated the 60th anniversary of Euroavia.
Briefly, if we need to give information about Emeac, we can talk as follows:
It is a congress where Euroavia's laws and legislative changes are discussed, plans for the future are discussed, reports of local groups are presented and most importantly, the board of directors is elected.
In Lustrum, which is celebrated every 5 years, a pleasant environment was created with many speakers, alumni and students, including Airbus' CTO and past CEO. It was a one-day event with debates and presentations.
Hot Wings Symposuim 2019
A total of 12 participants from 5 different countries and 9 different universities attended our 5-day Hot Wings Symposium event we organized in 2019. This event included workshops, social skills training, technical and city trips as well as conferences. During the symposium, the participants and participants of the symposium had the opportunity to improve their language as well as have fun in English conferences. It is also our event that has created the vision of our committee to turn such events into a tradition.
ABOUT US
About the Local Group
Before our EUROAVIA adventure, our society’s name was GTU Aerospace Society. Since we joined the EUROAVIA family, we decided to unite our powers.
Our local group is also one of the local groups that has not faculty of Aeronautics and Aerospace. That shows our passion to aviation, space fields and most importantly to EUROAVIA family.
About the University / Faculty
Gebze Technical University is one of the leading technological higher education institutes in Turkey that located on the borders of Istanbul and Kocaeli. Originally established in 1992. First, it named Gebze Institute of Technology. After 4th November of 2014, it has been renamed as Gebze Technical University. Our university has basic sciences, architecture and business faculties in addition to engineering departments such as electronics, computers, machine. It provides education to over 8000 students. Gebze Technical University, with its’ infrastructure, equipment and academic staff, is the youngest but most experienced university, candidate to become the most important science base in our country. Since 2013, our university has listed in top 10 as the best higher education institutes.
About the City
Kocaeli, where approximately 2 million people live, is known for being one of the important industrial and R&D regions of Turkey. It has also an important geographical position that connects Europe and Asia.
Your message
As a community, we represent our university and country by developing new projects in competitions organized at home and abroad. That brings excitement by making flight shows with model aircraft and rockets everyone from seven to seventy. In addition to our technical skills, we provide many events, interviews and conferences with experts in the aviation and space field.
