Who is Mevlana?

The real name of Mevlana, who gave the program its name, is Muhammed Celaleddin. Mevlana was born in 1207 in the city of Belh in the Khorasan region, which is located within the borders of Afghanistan today. The name Mevlana was used by Sultan Veled, Şems-i Tebrizi and his followers; it has become a universal symbol that is identified with it. He is also known as Rumi by the westerners.

XIII. Mevlana, a Sufi who lived in the 16th century, but who went beyond the ages with his works; As reflected in the lines "Come, whatever you are", he did not discriminate between people. With his compassion, unrequited and unlimited love for humanity, as well as his endless tolerance, he impressed not only the Islamic world but all humanity. He is accepted all over the world as a man of ideas with his view of life and people. UNESCO declared 2007 the Year of Mevlana and Tolerance, due to the 800th anniversary of Mevlana's birth.

During his education life, he visited educational institutions in different countries and cities of the period as both a student and a scientist. "Change" has an important place in Mevlana's life and philosophy.

He is also the author of important works such as Mesnevi, Divan-ı Kebir, FihiMafih, Mektubat and Mecalis-i Seba.

Mevlana Exchange Program

This program is a program that makes it possible to exchange students and instructors between higher education institutions in Turkey and higher education institutions providing education abroad. With the Regulation published in the Official Gazette dated 23 August 2011 and numbered 28034, the way for change has been paved. Unlike other exchange programs, it covers higher education institutions all over the world without any geographical region distinction.

Goals of Mevlana Exchange Program

• To contribute to the internationalization process of our university,
• To make our university a center of attraction in the field of higher education,
• To get the rich historical and cultural heritage and experiences of Turkey,
• Ensuring the enrichment of the culture of respect and understanding for differences by increasing intercultural interaction,
• Increasing knowledge, manners and skill

Mevlana Exchange Program Student 

• Those who want to know and understand their region and the world better,
• Open to change,
• Equipped and confident,
• Strong sense of competition,
• They are students with a global awareness and sense of responsibility.

Who Can Participate in the Mevlana Exchange Program and Who Cannot?

• In order to benefit from the program, the student must be an associate, undergraduate, graduate and doctoral student registered in formal education higher education programs.
• Secondary education students can benefit from the program.
• Students who have benefited from the Mevlana Studying Activity before can benefit from the program without a scholarship.
• Students who have benefited from Erasmus activities before can benefit from the program with a scholarship.
• Students who are Farabi students at our university can only apply from their own institutions.
• Students who will go to Higher Education Institutions abroad should not be citizens of the country they will go to, and students who will come to our University should not be citizens of the Republic of Turkey.
• Scholarships are given to Mevlana Exchange Program students for one semester (Fall or Spring Semester). Students can benefit from the program in both terms, one semester with scholarship, one semester with scholarship, and one semester without scholarship.
• From the Mevlana Exchange Program; Students who are registered for open, external, non-formal or distance education cannot benefit. Foreign students can benefit from the program.
• Students studying in the preparatory class of associate and undergraduate programs and graduate and doctoral students who are in the preparatory and scientific preparation periods cannot benefit from this program. Doctoral students cannot benefit from the program in the last semester when the doctoral proficiency exam is required and during the period when the thesis proposal defense is required.
• Faculty of Medicine 6th year (intern) students cannot benefit from this program.
• According to the decision taken by HEİ, faculty members working at our university cannot participate in the Mevlana Exchange Program, except for the Project-Based Mevlana Movement.
• Research assistants cannot benefit from the program as teaching staff. They can benefit from the position of Master and Doctorate students.
• If Teaching Staff Training Program Research Assistants are also registered as students in a program, they can benefit from the Mevlana Program as a student at the university they are a student at.

Application Requirements for Mevlana Exchange Program

For students;

• Must be an associate, undergraduate, graduate or doctoral student.
• Associate and undergraduate students must have a minimum GPA of 2.50.
• Graduate and doctorate students must have a minimum GPA of 3.00.
• Students studying in the preparatory and first year of associate and undergraduate programs and graduate and doctoral students in the preparatory and scientific preparation periods cannot benefit from this program for the first semester they start their main education.
• It is expected that Master's and Doctorate students will have completed the course phase in the period when they qualify from the program. Because these students can only benefit from this program while they are at the thesis stage.

How to Apply? What Documents Are Required?

Previously, students used to submit the required documents by hand, but now the applications will be made online.

Documentation for Students

Aday Bilgileri	(During online application)
Foreign Language Certificate	(During online application)
Transcript	(Required during online application and at the end of the program.)
Learning Protocol Form	(After winning)
Student Declaration	(After winning)
Photocopy of the passaport	(After winning)
Acceptance certificate	(Sent by the university it won.)
Liability Agreement	(After winning)
Certificate of participation	(After the Program End)
Final Report	(After the Program End)

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How should the Learning Protocol be filled?

• Before the exchange period starts, defined courses and credits are indicated.
• The student declares with signature that he/she finds the courses appropriate.
• The sending higher education institution also undertakes that the courses taken with this protocol are accepted.
• The equivalence of the courses is approved by the board of directors of the relevant academic unit.
• The Learning Protocol is arranged in three copies.
• The Learning Protocol is also signed by the relevant department heads and the Mevlana Exchange Program institution coordinator.
• Possible changes should be made no later than 30 days after the start of the period.
• A Mevlana Exchange Program student cannot take the exam again from a course that is specified in the learning protocol and that he has been successful in, or can not take this course again.

 

How Does the Mevlana Exchange Program Exchange Process Work?

Mevlana exchange program consists of three stages:

I. Stage  (Application and Selection Process):

The Mevlana Exchange Program is responsible for announcing the dates determined by YÖK every year by the Institutional Coordinator of our University.

After the announcement in our university, students can apply online within the application dates;

• General information about the student,
• Transcript,
• Foreign Language Exam Result Document (in the relevant language, English or Russian 

(Students can obtain this document from the International Relations Office of our university.) upload their attachments to the relevant places in the application system. Afterwards, the International Relations Office examines the incoming applications and checks whether the documents are complete and complete, if there are missing or incorrect applications, the Mevlana Office Officer sends correction messages to the e-mail address registered in the system during the application period. It is very important for the student to check the e-mail address they have registered in the system frequently during the application period for the success of the application. Afterwards, the weighted grade point averages of the successful applicants are evaluated. In the evaluation, the overall score is calculated by taking into account the sum of 50% of the grade point average of the students who have the above application requirements, and 50% of the language scores indicating the relevant language level used in the education of the higher education institution where Mevlana Exchange Program will be a student, and the ranking is made in accordance with the existing quotas. candidate student list is forwarded to YÖK. The list of Scholarship Students Eligible for Mevlana Exchange Program and Non-Scholarship Students Eligible for Mevlana Exchange Program, selected according to the decision of YÖK, is announced on the website of the International Relations Office. Since the students who are entitled to benefit from the exchange with scholarships have the possibility to waive these rights, our students who are entitled to benefit from the exchange without a scholarship, instead of the candidates who waive, always have a chance to win a scholarship. For this reason, it is of great importance that our students, who are entitled to participate in the exchange without a scholarship, follow the process until the end.

After the announcement of the foreign language exam results and the candidate student pre-evaluation list, the candidate students who want to waive their rights submit their waiver petitions to the UIO. Click for Waiver Petition>>

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II. Stage (Before Exchange)

Mevlana Exchange Program Student,

He/she prepares the Student Learning Protocol in the computer environment together with the MDP Department Coordinator, taking into account the syllabus of the higher education institution he/she will attend. Learning Protocol;

1) Itself

2) Head of Department and Unit/Department coordinator of his/her Department, sign.

It delivers the signed Learning Protocol to the International Relations Office in 3 original copies.

International Relations Office,

1) Mevlana Exchange Program Institutional Coordinator signs the Student Learning Protocol. For approval, it is sent to the Higher Education Institution abroad where the student will go.

2) After the approval of the Student Learning Protocol; The Higher Education Institution abroad, where the student will go, submits the approved Student Admission Document to the International Relations Office, showing that the student has been accepted as a Mevlana Exchange Program student.

Mevlana Exchange Program Student,

1) He/she applies with a petition by attaching a copy of the approved Learning Protocol and Student Admission Document to enter the decision of the Administrative Board of the unit where he/she is a student.

2) He opens a Turkish Lira (TL) account from Ziraat Bank for the Mevlana Exchange Programme. (If there is already a Ziraat Bank TL account, there is no need to open a new account.) He delivers a copy of the passbook to the International Relations Office.

3) Signs the Student Obligation Agreement and the Student Statement prepared by the International Relations Office; gets a copy.

 

Also Mevlana Exchange Program Student,

1) Photocopy of the passaport
2) Copy of Identity Card
3) Submits a copy of the Travel Document (air ticket) to the International Relations Office.

International Relations Office,

Prepares Passport Fee Exemption Letter and Visa Letter for students who will benefit from Mevlana Exchange Program; It is sent to the student.

Relevant documents can be obtained from https://uio.alanya.edu.tr/tr/mevlana-programi/gerekli-documents. The department coordinators are required to notify the department students who are certain to go to Turkey, in a list, to the administrative board of their department. For these students, the decision of the Board of Directors must be issued from their departments.

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III. Stage (Change Process and Post-Change)

If a change (Add-Delete) will be made in the Learning Protocol; It must be done within 30 days at the latest following the start of the academic term in the Higher Education Institution where the student attends, and this document must be approved by the student and the signatory higher education institution officials.

80% of the part determined according to the scholarship amount of the Mevlana students studying abroad is deposited into the Ziraat Bank TL account of the Mevlana student.

Upon successful completion of their education, students hand over two of the three mutually signed learning protocols they took with them to the International Relations Office when they finish their education. Apart from this, it will be given by the university that you have successfully completed the program;

• transcript,
• Certificate of participation
  Return Ticket
• The student completes the program successfully by submitting the final report to the International Relations Office of our university within 15 days at the latest. At the same time, students must submit a petition to their departments and have the equivalence of their courses approved by the board of directors in their own unit. In the department, the relevant commission evaluates the courses and forwards them to the unit's board of directors. The head of the relevant unit forwards the equivalent courses to the student affairs.

The remaining 20% of the scholarship amount is deposited into the account of the Mevlana student who has completed the Mevlana Exchange Program mobility abroad, according to the student's success rate in passing the courses.

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Exchange Periods and Tuition Expenses within the Scope of Mevlana Exchange Program Mevlana Exchange Program students are given scholarships for one semester (Fall or Spring Semester). Students can benefit from the program in both terms, one semester with scholarship, one semester with scholarship, and one semester without scholarship.

Students who benefit from the program do not pay tuition fees to the higher education institution they will attend while they are Mevlana Exchange Program students.

Academic Recognition, Equivalence of Courses and Benefiting from the Program

• Higher education institutions provide full recognition to educational activities.
• Before the learning mobility starts, the program related to the defined courses is confirmed in writing by signing a learning protocol by all parties. Higher education institutions are obliged to accept the credits and equivalence of all courses successfully completed at the end of the exchange program and consider them successful. These courses are specified in the diploma supplement.
• In exchange, the credits of the courses are taken into account, not the number of courses.
• Students do not lose any semester when they return to their country, as the course equivalence is clearly determined within the framework of the Mevlana Exchange Program Learning Protocol.
• Students can benefit from Mevlana Exchange Program only once during their education at our university.
• Instructors can benefit from the program only once in an academic year.

Scholarships During the Mevlana Exchange Program

Matters related to students:

• Other scholarships and loans they receive from our university continue during their education.
• The amount of scholarship to be paid to students differs by considering the economic life standards of the country where the students go for education.
• In payments to students, 80% of the scholarship amount is paid monthly. The payment of the remaining scholarship amount of the student is made on the basis of the student's success in the courses he is obliged to take.

Which grading and crediting system will be used for students participating in the exchange within the scope of Mevlana Exchange Program?

The course load of Mevlana Exchange Program students based on the credits determined within the framework of a common credit system cannot be less than the course load that they must take in the same semester in the higher education institutions they are registered with. In exchange, the credits of the courses are taken into account, not the number of courses. Higher education institutions can agree on a common crediting system, as well as take the ECTS Crediting system as a basis for change, provided that they declare that they mutually agree on the protocol they signed.

Signatory higher education institutions take the necessary measures to prevent the repetitions of courses that may arise due to the courses taken or to be taken by the students in their own institutions, to match the courses they will take in their own institutions during the exchange period with the courses they will take in the higher education institution they will attend, and to ensure that students do not lose credits, courses, semesters or years during the exchange. For this purpose, in order to prevent course repetitions in the completion of the credits, courses can be selected from the lower and upper classes of the higher education institution. In the Learning Protocol, the credits of the courses and the courses to be considered as equivalent are clearly determined before the start of the academic year.

The passing grade of the courses applied in the higher education institution where they studied as a Mevlana Exchange Program student is taken as a basis in equalizing the grades of the courses in which the students are successful. Students who want to go to institutions with different passing grades are informed about the subject before the exchange period starts. It is assumed that students who sign the learning protocol are informed about the subject.

Equivalences are approved by the board of directors of the relevant academic unit. Successful courses and credits of students benefiting from the Mevlana Exchange Program are indicated in writing in the course and transcripts of the higher education institutions they are registered with.

Information on Incoming Student

Students who intend to come to our university within the scope of the Mevlana Exchange Program forward the necessary documents to the relevant department coordinators through our university's institutional coordinator. The department coordinator reviews the documents related to the incoming student and pays attention to course equivalence. If the department deems it appropriate, it signs the necessary places and sends them back to the institution coordinator. The institutional coordinator, on the other hand, informs the Institution Coordinator on the other side and initiates the process to realize the change.