Mission

The mission of NIHA can be described as follows:

NIHA aims to contribute to the internationalization of the Higher and Vocational Education in the Netherlands by acting as effective promoter and intermediary.

It is understood that the work areas, objectives and target groups have been chosen in such a way that NIHA can fulfil its mission.

NIHA aims to promote the internationalization of the Dutch Higher Education by:

• actively supporting the cooperation between the Netherlands and Turkey in the field of Higher Education;
• supporting and supplying the direct cooperation between institutes of Higher Education in both countries, including the introduction and exchange of professors and students, the acquisition of scholarships and the promotion of scientific research;
• recruiting highly talented Turkish students to continue their study in the Netherlands or to start scientific research activities in the Netherlands.

  In addition to the main activities of supply and acquisition NIHA will carry out other activities as well, provided that there are sufficient finances and facilities to do so. E.g. requests from the government, institutes or companies, which would like to make use of the networks and knowledge of NIHA. Besides the credit facilities it is of high importance that this kind of activities will not damage the image of NIHA.

The most important target groups of NIHA are the institutions for Higher Education in The Netherlands and Turkey, which would like to establish a structural cooperation, and other parties in the field of Higher Education in both countries.

The main work area of NIHA is Turkey (in the leading university cities). However, given that Ankara is the official-political centre of the country, the accent of the activities lay over here. Further, The Netherlands count to the work area of NIHA as well, since a part of the relations with organizations and institutes, as well as with the advisors and directors of NIHA, needs regular individual contact.

Eventually, the place of business of international organizations and institutes as well as other Dutch-speaking and Turkish-speaking areas other than respectively The Netherlands and Turkey could possibly be counted as work areas too.