The number of students from Turkey choosing to study in Italy is rising significantly. This\u00a0has\u00a0emerged\u00a0from the “Italia\u00a0chiama\u00a0Turchia”\u00a0(Italy calling Turkey)\u00a0project, which aims to collect useful data for promoting\u00a0academic relations between Italy and Turkey, with a view both to strengthening relations and cooperation between the universities of the two\u00a0countries and\u00a0consolidating the number of academic exchanges between Italian and Turkish universities.<\/p>\n
The data\u00a0was\u00a0collected\u00a0on behalf of the Italian Embassy by Professor Daniela\u00a0Giannetto, who also benefited from the support of the Y\u00d6K (Higher Council of Turkish Universities) and the MUR (Ministry of Universities\u00a0and Research).<\/p>\n
The\u00a0highlights of the data collected\u00a0give an insight into\u00a0the trends, in recent years,\u00a0related to the flow of Italian students and teachers in Turkey and Turkish students and teachers in Italy,\u00a0revealing\u00a0a significant increase in enrolment in both three-year and single-cycle\u00a0degree\u00a0programmes\u00a0and master’s degree\u00a0programmes. This figure is consistent with the growth in the presence of foreign students of all nationalities in Italian universities, but with the clarification that the percentage of Turkish students has more than doubled in the last five years, rising from 1.29% to 2.72%. In the last two years, although Lombardy and Piedmont are still the preferred destinations for Turkish students, there has been an increase in the percentage of Turkish students in universities in other Italian regions.<\/p>\n
There are also interesting\u00a0figures in terms of academic staff: especially in the universities of the large Turkish cities there is a fair and constant presence of teaching staff, at various levels, from Italy (58 in 2918\/2019), while the number of Turkish\u00a0professors in Italian universities is rather small (13 in total).<\/p>\n
With regard to Erasmus exchanges, there is a significant discrepancy between the numerous Turkish students choosing Italy (6421,\u00a0from 2014 to 2018) and the few Italians choosing Turkey (1349 for the same period).<\/p>\n
The project does not only consist of data and tables but\u00a0features\u00a0a second part,\u00a0\u201cItaly calling\u00a0Turkey\u201d, consisting of a collection of interviews with researchers, academics and intellectuals who promote cultural\/scientific exchanges between the two countries, as well as Erasmus students and winners of scholarships under the\u00a0\u201cInvest Your Talent and Study in Italy\u201d\u00a0programmes\u00a0sponsored by\u00a0the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation,\u00a0who have spent a study\u00a0period\u00a0in one of the two countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The number of students from Turkey choosing to study in Italy is rising significantly. This\u00a0has\u00a0emerged\u00a0from the “Italia\u00a0chiama\u00a0Turchia”\u00a0(Italy calling Turkey)\u00a0project, which aims to collect useful data for promoting\u00a0academic relations between Italy and Turkey, with a view both to strengthening relations and cooperation between the universities of the two\u00a0countries and\u00a0consolidating the number of academic exchanges between Italian […]","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":68516,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[32,9],"class_list":["post-68519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-retediplomatica","tag-diplomazia-culturale","tag-europa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68519"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68520,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68519\/revisions\/68520"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}