Bilgeİş Project and OSTİM (Middle East Industry and Trade Centre) signed a cooperation protocol to enhance their cooperation and to support university – business world relations on 10 January 2017 at OSTİM Organized Industrial Zone Ankara District Office. Chairman of the Executive Board Mr. Orhan Aydın and District Manager Mr. Adem Arıcı on behalf of OSTİM, and Prof. Dr. Kürşat Çağıltay on behalf of the METU signed the protocol.

Prof. Çağıltay gave brief information on the project and said that Bilgeİş Project was one of the most important efforts to make METU as a society university. Prof. Çağıltay expressed that target group of the Project was especially SMEs and emphasised that online portal they were preparing would contain e-courses for the needs of SMEs. He continued his words by mentioning that 100 e-courses would be published in the portal and accessible by anybody for free and they were going to increase the number of the courses and improve the scope.

Chairman of the Executive Board Mr. Orhan Aydın wished a fruitful cooperation and expressed their pleasure to be a part of the Project and identified OSTİM as a good solution partner.