Abdi Kurt in brief

  • Mersin University – Mersin Technology Transfer Office Coordinator/Technology Transfer Professional
  • Gazi University – Faculty of Technical Education (TVET) (now Faculty of Technology, Undergraduate)
  • Egypt/Cairo – Special Invitee to https://irc-expo.eg.net/ upcoming (December 10-11, 2025)
  • Greece – Workshop invitee to Horizon Europe headed by Nikolaos Floratos, (Dr.)
  • 5–11.11.2025 – (a 5 day-Program) a special invitation by EIT Digital Silicon Valley https://eit.europa.eu/
  • Silicon Valley (US) EIT HUB Silicon Valley. Selected (by EIT-2025) TR innovation leader.  Program participation
  •  INBAS (involas) Belgium, national senior expert on the Osnabrük Declaration and the EC Recommendation in the field of TVET. Country Brief and NIP – prepared and published on behalf of ETF and MEB .
  • German sequa gGmbH ( https://www.sequa.de/projekte-programme/tameb/ ), Senior expert, Turkish-German Cooperation TAMEB Project. Worked over 6 years as Istanbul/Mersin Reg. Project Coordinator.
  • Italian Fondazione Brodolini – Senior Expert – Implementation of Sectoral Operational Program of Employment, Education and Social Policies of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security ( IESP SOP )
  • British- WYG Turkey – Senior Expert. Various ministry TVET projects consultancy (available in CV)
  • Mersin University Academic Expert. Establishment of Foreign Relations Branch Directorate, Quality Management Coordinatorship, Advanced Technology Center ISO 17025 laboratory system.
  • Zafer Development Agency SME projects Senior Evaluation Committee Member
  • Austria ENQA -ESG Higher Education Quality Assurance Workshop- Erasmus Exchange Programme.
  • EPRD Poland – Senior Expert in TVET, EU Procurement Procedures. European Union Delegation – TR
  • British Council- MVET Project (Modernization of Vocational and Technical Education Project, (British Council, Del, Carl Bro, Eduser) National Quality Expert. 1 year.
  • British Council- MVET Project (Modernization of Vocational and Technical Education Project, British Council, Del Carl Bro, Eduser). 2 years.
  • Firat University – Lecturer (at World Bank Supported VET School), 10 years.
  • DAP Eastern Anatolia Project, 16 province ICT (Communication infrastructure) project manager. Under the coordination of State Planning and 5 universities. 2 years
  • YÖK – World Bank supported Electronics-III book translation (available in all university libraries)
  • Training and studies on VET for 9 months in Manchester, England, funded by YÖK-World Bank.

My country experiences

  • Egypt/Cairo – Special Invitee to https://irc-expo.eg.net/ upcoming (December 10-11, 2025)
  • Greece – Workshop invitee to Horizon Europe headed by Nikolaos Floratos, (Dr.)
  • USA/San Francisco – Special Invitee by EIT Hub Silicon Valley https://eit.europa.eu/ a 5 day-Program
  • France – Attendee to the Global Innovators’ Sunset event in Paris organized by adina.beer@go-eit.eu
  • Germany – Bonn, 12 times various studies (sequa gGmbH headquarters)
  • South Korea – Seoul- Study on mobile satellite in-Motion systems
  • Austria ENQA – Higher Education Quality Assurance study
  • Azerbaijan – Baku – 4 times- Ministry of Education –Digital Education System Project
  • Russia -Moscow – Developing a project on Mersin twice
  • Developing a project regarding Belgium/Brussels – Türkiye/Mersin
  • Israel – Tel Aviv – Drip irrigation system R&D study
  • England – Manchester – 9 months of work within the World Bank Project.

Language; Turkish (native language), English (80 Public Personnel Language Exam). Mobile 00 90 532 602 5502, abdi.kurt@mersin.edu.tr, twitter , Linkedin

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