Abdullal Gul University

AGU, the first foundation-supported public university model in Turkey was established on July 21, 2010.



The Best Turkish University 
University of the Republic of Turkey is one of the industry's first and largest campus is a project to transform education campus Sümerbank Textile Factory. It has received its first students in the 2013-2014 academic year. The second campus in the construction of the Mimar Sinan University campus continues. Kayseri studies to gain a new state university, met with Kayseri Metropolitan Municipality attempt by opinion leaders have been started in 2007. The university, in accordance with the development and entrepreneurship with the vision of the example shown in Kayseri, Turkey, intended to highlight education in the city, Turkey's 11th President Abdullah Gul is intended to carry the name. Our President, Turkey will make a difference in this university higher education, provided that a quality university that can compete in the international arena has seen fit to offer. One international training and research intended to be an institution that LDCs emerge as the most important element which is a new model AG Support Foundation (AGÜV). AGÜV established on July 13, 2011, began to work in parallel and to provide effective support to the university's development.
Leading a New Generation University
AG is the pioneer of a new generation of state-supported universities are current as of the first private universities. In addition to data transmission; producing information, education engaged in producing and research projects and produce the project is progressing quickly in the contemporary university goals shared with the public.

universities with more than a thousand years of history is living today a new breakdown. The move away from increasingly community of higher education institutions, each other completely alienated departments and faculties, and rather detached and independent of the educational and research functions from each other, integrated with today's society, can work in interdisciplinary education and there is a need for systems that integrate the research function.

AG three years upcoming academic design work has embraced the vision of making the third generation of leadership of the university in the process. There were over 600, including domestic and foreign scientists, business and industry representatives, civil society organizations and LV designed with reference to the valuable opinions of the public employees, was established as an innovative and entrepreneurial universities. AGI application in the next design, while different ways to clarify the concept of third generation university seeks to define the clearance on the other hand has been operating to demonstrate its application guidelines in this direction.

The concept of the Third Generation University
Universities fulfill three basic functions in general. These are education, research and community contributions. first generation universities pioneered in the 11th century University of Bologna focused on education. The Humboldt University has launched the second generation of the research function of universities in the 19th century period. Today, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) as the second generation of the modern universities in the community to contribute to function alongside education and research agenda almaktadır.-

Third Generation University concept put forward by LDCs, training and research function involves redefined through contributing to society. Accordingly, the LDCs and contribution to the community-driven development model design with an integrated college education and research. At the same time, AGI is a unique example for R & D projects in Turkey and is supported by the Ministry of Development to develop a university model.

Three Important Reasons of the Third Generation University

1) Integrated Value Plus: all resources used by the University that has become increasingly limited, there is a value to the conversion requirements of the research and educational efforts for the community. Today, increased awareness on this issue and has increased expectations.

2) Connectivity with Real Life Topic: the demand for the development of competencies for global issues and real-world problems of students is increasing. At the same time, most students in the program are alienated from their being away from professional passion and expertise.

3) Behind Survival of the Development of Education and Research Function: developments in information and communication technology has a long history of doing business and affect the way you work. Access to information is easier dramatically. Nowadays university is no longer the sole source of information. Technology, changes in social life and the economy, and thus decrease the validity of the old methods of teaching and research.

Principles of LDCs to the Third Generation University

AG through the concepts and requirements defined by the third generation university is working on the implementation of the principle as follows:

(1) Contribution to the Community Oriented University: mission to contribute to society AG has set the target of global responsibilities. Global responsibility also serves as the students' professional ideals and an element that ignited their passion. Research, training and practice give direction to the global responsibilities, as it affects every point in the world, Turkey, the region will be on issues affecting and Kayseri. LDCs of the global area of ​​responsibility is planning to take the agenda: (i) sustainability, (ii) Economic Order, (iii) Population and Urbanization, (iv) Health and Food, (v) Democratic Order, (vi) Innovation and (vii) Peace and Security is. AG, to provide qualified human resources in these areas, technology development, manufacturing patents, establishing start-up companies, industry project execution, economic and social policies of the cultural life contributes and science development aims to contribute formats, such as the spread of the community.

(2) Based Real Life Training and Research New Paradigm: AGU, training and research as part of an information-oriented society to contribute to the goal of producing real-life problems and issues are dealt with. Although real-life issues naturally feed cross-disciplinary work, and increase the relevance of educational content. This is in accordance with designed shapes closer to the realities of working life in education and research environment for LDCs. In this context, research is planned to be converted to technologies based on a scientific study of the LDCs university's vision. Thus, students are also finding new learning opportunities and development experiences in which they have been actively doing research.

(3) Blended University Functions: Contemporary universities, research, education and community contributions with the focus on different functions, but these functions are exercised have very limited design on their interactions with each other. Usually these functions are handled as separate reality AG is create a design that blends to create a multiplier effect with each other. Topics centered contribute to society, education and the university is to provide direction for both studies. In this way, by removing a wall between the function, to be a part of undergraduate education, especially the study of real-life issues and the opportunity to serve as the production of knowledge born of the same work.


AG in accordance with these principles, are also adopting an approach to design and continuously improve their practices again.