Summer in EMU was expected to be very crowded, with students from many different countries coming withmany different aims and goals. Our expectation was correct. We had guests from Kazakhstan, Kosovo, China,Ukraine and Azerbaijan as well as a large group of students from the AIESEC organization. Our group of as-sistants and staff were ready to meet all the guests and make sure that they had a great time in our universityand around Cyprus. Students were taking English language classes, and departmental courses as well. Toensure our students would leave with many fond memories, we organized plenty of trips, activities, parties,celebrations and beach events. One of our aims was to bring students together from different cultures, tomake them friends. The aim was achieved! From the first day of their arrival, the students started to get toknow each other better, becoming friends and learning about each other’s cultures. The dance and musicperformances they put on were unbelievable!!!

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One of our aims was to get the students together

from different cultures, to make them friends.

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I am from Hungary. We are here for the

AIESEC Program and I am a manager trainer.

We have been to many places in North Cyprus

and there were many seminars at the univer-

sity to inform us about EMU. EMU is a great

campus where I am planning to continue my

studies.

I am from Ukraine and I am on an exchange programfrom the Ukrainian Academy of Banking. We are at thesummer school in the Banking and Finance Depart-ment and we will return back to our university at theend of summer school. We met the students who aregoing on exchange program to our university and be-came friends. We told them about our university andwhat is waiting for them and they orientated us in EMU.

I am from China and we are here on a seminar

from Zhejiang Gongshang University. EMU and

my university have a collaboration agreement

and EMU is hosting us here for two weeks. I

must say EMU has a spectacular campus. I

would like to thank both of the institutions for

giving us this opportunity to be here.

OLGA BETYAK

MARYNA STADVA

VIOLET CHUN YANG

I am from Russia and I am a manager trainer of

the AIESEC program. I think EMU is the safest

place for all students to come and study. The at-

mosphere and this international atmosphere

here is amazing.

IRINA SUKHANOVA

I am from Ukraine and I am on the AIESEC pro-

gram. I’m leading a group of international stu-

dents in AIESEC. This project is a good way to

bring different cultures together. I am sure all

these trainers will go back to their country and

promote EMU in the best way possible.

IULIIA PROKOPCHUK

I am from Russia and I am with the AIESEC

program. We are learning more and more

about North Cyprus and EMU every day. When

I go back, it will not be difficult for me to talk

about the facilities of this university.

I am from Azerbaijan and I am here on the residen-tial summer courses to improve my English. It hasnot been long since I met the assistants of Inter-national Office of EMU but they have helped us somuch that our adaptation period to EMU andCyprus passed like the wind.

I am from Azerbaijan. What I like about EMU and

the international office is how big it is and how

small they make it at the same time. Mr. John El-

dridge organized our program so smoothly and

the International office was always there for the

logistics of the program that we did not have

any problem in finding our way around.

ANASTASIA ONUCHINA

HOKUMA MAHMUDZADE

ALI IBRAHIMOV

I am from Iran and we are here for a seminar on

Tourism. In such a short time EMU organized

such a nice program for us that we had both ac-

ademic and social activities fit into our tight

schedule.

SARA ASHRAFI

I am from Iran. I would like to thank the interna-

tional office and the seminar organizers for de-

livering us such crucial information about

tourism in North Cyprus. Our social activities

were the missing pieces of the puzzles for this

trip.

MARYAM RAHMANIZADEH

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Ukrainian Academy of Banking

It's been marvellous to be able to host students from the

Ukrainian Institute of Banking this summer. During their ex-

tended stay in Northern Cyprus, they have enlivened numer-

ous events and added color to our summer program. Here

they are making friends with our Azerbaijani students at the

Beach Club party, where they brought the house down with

a performance of verve, charisma and dynamism. How

about that Bougainvillea garland?

Azeri students on the English language summer school had

dinner with two Azeri members of parliament on 21st July,

Wednesday joined by our rector, vice rectors, academics and

administrative officers. Member of Parliament Ganira

Pashayeva and Aynur Guliyeva informed the Azeri students

of the importance their education at Eastern Mediterranean

University and how the Azerbaijani government and Turkish

Republic of Northern Cyprus government are working to

strengthen the bond between the two countries. They added

that studying at Eastern Mediterranean University is one of

the ways to accomplish this target.

AZERI STUDENTS AND

MEMBER OF

PARLIAMENTS DINNER AT

BEACH CLUB

BAKU STATE UNIVERSITY ON RESIDENTIAL COURSES AT EMU

Collaboration with Baku State University started tobear fruit this summer with students coming to theresidential summer program to take English clas-ses. Their one month stay included classes, tutori-als, trips, beach activities such as scuba diving,sand sculp-ture, beach parties, beach volleyball,turtle-hatch watc-hing and many more that our gu-ests invented for themselves on the sands.

Exchange partner students from Ukraine are at EMU

After the collaboration agreement was signed betweenEMU and the Ukrainian Academy of Banking, it was ag-reed to exchange students in the Banking and FinanceDepartments of both institutions for summer school. Ac-cordingly, there were Ukrainian students on exchange atEMU for the whole summer. They have been on trips andsummer activities as well as practising water sports at theEMU Beach Club.

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AIESEC TRAININGPROGRAM HIT THE

ROOF WITH THE PROMOTION PROJECT

COLLABORATION

PARTNER FROM

CHINA IS AT EMU

FOR A SEMINARA group of Chinese students from ZhejiangGongshang University attended a two weekworkshop in the Banking and Finance De-partment entitled “Investment Appraisal”and received their certificates on 22nd July,Thursday from the lecturers who deliveredthe course.

The group enjoyed many excursions andtrips and made use of the EMU Beach Clubfacilities during their stay.

CHINESE STUDENTS

CERTIFICATE CEREMONY

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AIESEC TRAININGPROGRAM HIT THE

ROOF WITH THE PROMOTION PROJECT

A record number of trainees from 12 different countries came toEMU to discover “How to Promote EMU and North Cyprus in mycountry”. It is the first time in AIESEC’s 20 year history that sucha project has been organized here. 85 trainees participated infaculty orientation seminars, specific workshops in departments,trips to different cities and historical places and social activitiesdiscovering a different aspect of EMU with each activity.

It's not all study, trips and Beach Club. Part of the pur-pose of such programs is to share experiences with awider audience, and for the international students to in-troduce their countries and cultures to us here in North-ern Cyprus. For a group of AISEC, Chinese andAzerbaijani students this led to a night under the brightlights of the TV studio, and the chance to broadcast theirviews to the entire community here.

TELEVISION PROGRAM

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W E L C O M E C O C K TA I LA welcoming cocktail was held in EMUBeach Club for newly arrived SummerSchool students from China and Azerbaijan,exchange students from the Ukrainian Aca-demy of Banking and Finance and internsfrom AIESEC.Students were greeted by EMU Rector Prof.Dr. Abdullah Öztoprak and Vice-Rector forInternational Affairs Prof. Dr. Majid Hashe-mipour.During the cocktail, students performed tra-ditional dances and songs. An EMU Interna-tional Center assistant, David, taughteveryone the Cha-Cha dance, and anotherassistant, Izu, performed a few songs. It wasan unforgettable evening by the Mediterra-nean sea!

MAKING NEW FRIENDS

A joint welcome dinner was held at theBeach Club for our visitors from China andAzerbaijan. Also in attendance was ourgroup from the Ukrainian Institute of Ban-king. It was a special international eveningand a great chance for all the summerschool students to get to know each other.

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There was a Beach Party held on Mon-day night on 26th of July, which interna-tional students on summer coursesattended and performed. Chinese, Ukrai-nian, Estonian, Russian, Romanian, andAzerbaijan groups put on dance showsand singing performances. Along withour rector, vice rectors, academics, andadministrative officers, the Minister ofEducation, Nazim Cavusoglu, attendedand greeted our international studentswith a thoughtful speech, declaring that“Eastern Mediterranean University is gra-duating students who can lead theworld!”The AIESEC group of trainees fromtwelve different countries, exchange stu-dents from Ukraine, the Azerbaijani stu-dents from Baku State University and ourIranian group of guests attending theTourism and Archaeology seminar all joi-ned in and enjoyed the night.

8 “For Your International Career” FULLY EQUIPPED SPORTS CENTER

Gala Night was held at EMUBeach Club with 90 trainees from14 different countries along with8 trainer managers. EMU Rec-tor’s Office, the AIESEC EasternMediterranean board of executi-ves, and international embassieswere all in attendance and enjo-yed the slide shows of each co-untry, cultural dances andtraditional costume shows. Du-ring the night, the positive relati-ons developed between differentcultures was hard to miss. Thecollaboration between AIESECEastern Mediterranean and Eas-tern Mediterranean Univer-sity togenerate the project all came tofruit with all the trainees delightedwith the EMU facilities.