Gazi University

Gazi University is one of the few universities whose history dates back to 1920s. Right after the declaration of the Turkish Republic Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and his friends decided to establish an institute. This resulted in the establishment of the 'Teacher Training Institute' in 1926. In 1929 the institute was given the name 'Gazi Teacher Training Institute' and continued to educate students under this name for many years. In the Academic year 1949-1950 the institution was given the name 'Gazi Institute of Education'. In 1982, with the act number 2809 the institution gets the name Gazi University together with Ankara Academy of Economy and Commerce, Ankara College of Technical Teachers, Ankara Girls' College of Technical Teachers and Ankara Government Academy of Engineering and Architecture. Actually this university is the continuation of the tradition starting with Republic with a new name. Apart from Gazi Faculty of Education, the academies mentioned above play an important role in the establishment of the university. Ankara Academy of Economics and Commerce was already like a university when it was joined to Gazi University. In those days, the Departments of Medicine Dentistry, Pharmacology and Communication were all a part of this academy. Ankara Academy of State Engineering and Architecture is also included in Gazi University. When it was first built it had 9 faculties, 12 colleges and 4 institutes but the number of these units increases. Today, Gazi University carries out its educational and research activities with its 14 faculties, 5 colleges, 9 Vocational High Schools, 35 research centers and 5 institutes and it still claims it is a higher education institution which is worthy to Atatürk. The university has faculties of Education, Medicine, Dentistry, Pharmacy, Engineering and Architecture, Economics and Administrative, Communation, Science and Arts, Law, Fine Arts. Being the leader of the country with its education faculties, Gazi University has faculties of Industrial Arts, Gazi Education, Vocational Education, Technical Education, Commerce and Tourism In addition to the students from all around the country Gazi has also more than 1500 foreign students from Turkic states. It also meets the needs of academic staff of other universities with more than 5 thousand students in master and PhD programmes. Gazi University carries out its education in different campuses. Having three campus called Besevler, Emek and Maltepe in Ankara.

With its 50 thousand students and more than 3000 academic staff the university is close to the world average in terms of the number of students per instructor.

Gazi is one of the big universities with its faculties from education to communication, from fine arts to engineering, sports to forestry, medicine to pharmacy, dentistry to science and arts, economics to technology.

European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting (EWF)

EWF- European Federation for Welding, Joining and Cutting is an international non-profit association aiming at the collaboration in the study and solution of welding-related problems encountered within its fields of competence an the removal of technical barriers. The exchange of scientific and technical information, the preparation of harmonised rules for the education and training of personnel involved in welding, joining and related technologies, and the encouragement of projects for co-operative research able EWF to act as the representative of the welding community in Europe.

EWF, in conjunction with the relevant national welding institutes and organisations of 27 European countries, has made great efforts in the up dating and harmonisation of training and education in the field of welding technology. It was a pioneering organisation in education and qualification, developing the first truly harmonised scheme embracing all European countries for the training of personnel at all levels, from crafts people to professional engineers.

It started in the 1980’s an analysis of the existing levels of education in welding in the EU and EFTA countries and, upon the results, it was possible to define common harmonised levels of education, training and qualification.

Aware of the importance of the mobility of labour within Europe, a lot of work has been put on the harmonisation of a standard examination system, to ensure that welding personnel trained in the EWF system is examined in a uniform way, allowing the implementation of the developed Certification system where the recognition of personnel skills is able according to the same minimum standard.

The harmonised courses, which are now offered in most European countries, combine underpinning knowledge and application experience, thereby providing close links with industrial practice. After the main education, special courses for additional education are offered in many special areas, thus providing a specific education still closer to the job function.

EWF has also developed a high integrity and specialised certification system to guarantee Manufacturer compliance with EN 729 – Certification of Companies. Great care has been taken to detail the interpretation of EN 729 in terms of third party assessment, to specify and register properly trained scheme assessors and devise an operational structure so that certification of Manufacturers will be consistent whenever the scheme rules are applied.

Recognizing the importance of Environment Management Systems for the industrial field, EWF has developed a guideline for the training and qualification of personnel involved in EMSs related to the fabrication of welded products.

Aiming to act as disseminator of the RTD projects and it’s results in presence of a wide audience of potential interested actors from a large number of industrial sectors, EWF’s cooperation in the development of European Projects related to welding or its allied technologies, has been increasing EWF’s capacity in reaching EU industry where technological innovation and improvement is the goal.

The Italian Welding Institute (IIS)

The Italian Welding Institute ( IIS) is a private Association, that was set up in 1948 and enacted in 1961 as a non-profit making Organization, by the Italian Republic.

The principal aim of IIS is to develop education, research and training in welding and allied technologies, and through its own experience, to give technical assistance and consultancy services to industry. The main activities of the Institute are: - Consultancy, Testing, Training, Certification, Research, Publications, Standardization.

The Institute has a staff of around 190, of whom about half are graduate and non-graduate engineers, and approximately 1000 members, both individuals and companies. The Institute occupies an area of 7500 m2 in Genoa, where technical departments and laboratories are situated, and has Offices in Milan, Rome, Venice and in Sicily.

In the research field the Italian Welding Institute performed several research, most of them in cooperation with important industrial, research and/or educational partners (like the Universities), both national and international. Some of these researches were supported from the European Communities, through specific projects like: BRITE-EURAM, SMT, EUREKA, COMETT, CRAFT, SOCRATES, and LEONARDO DA VINCI.

In Italy and abroad the Institute got several recognitions and accreditations from the most important Authorities, in the fields of its own competence, like: welders competence and their certification, welding and NDT personnel training and education, welding and NDT researches, quality systems certifications, materials certifications, welding sources certifications, fabrication inspection, in service inspection, preparation and/or certification of welding and NDT specifications.

Among them we can consider the following: IIW (International Institute of Welding), EWF (European Welding Federation), IPC (Association Connecting Electronic Industries), ESA (European Space Agency), EC (European Community), STATOIL (Den Norske Stats Oljeselskap), Italian Ministry of Work, Italian Ministry of Industry, Italian Ministry of Scientific and Technical Research, Italian Ministry of Education, ISPESL (Italian Official Authority for Industrial Equipment Security), FS (Italian Railways Authority), ANAS (talian Roads and Highway Authority), ENEA (Italian Official Inspecting and Research Authority for Nuclear and Alternative Energies Power Plants), SINCERT (Italian Accreditation Official Authority for the Certification Bodies), SINAL (Italian Accreditating Official Authority for the Laboratories).

European Business Academy (EBA)

EBA European Business Academy is a non-profit enterprise and determines within a demand analysis locally first the abilities and authority of the individual coworker, before an individual training program is prepared. So we can guarantee that the enterprise draws the greatest possible use from the training courses. Make the coworkers from the cost factor to the yield factor. Many vocational fields, which were occupied by practical men so far, are occupied increasingly by well trained, young and freshly motivated humans - a trend, which continues. Without further training the opportunities for advancement are strongly limited in most enterprises. Only decide the correct combination of practical experience and current specialized knowledge on your career. The courses of studies of the EBA address themselves to working persons, which want to complete and on a training style in line with standard usage value put a study on highest level parallel to the professional activity. With us in the Ludwig Erhard house you are with this attitude on the correct address. Unemployed person young person under 25 years, which did not find current assistance to living costs received, whom aim at a training place, in this year a training place, or broke their training off are with us at the correct address. You know around your qualities, we offer to you in many vocational fields out and training further on behalf of the federal agency for work and the municipalities we support you on your way in the job market and in the working life.

EBA’s service spectrum covers among other things: - vocational training with IHK conclusion - vocational further training with IHK conclusion - training preparatory courses - improvement of the switching chances on the job market - switching of occupation-practical knowledge and talents - improvement and recess of the social authority. EBA offer integration courses, in which all one mediates. And thus a learning to be simplified and further inquiries made possible, inform with us excluding humans.

Technical University of Cluj-Napoca , Faculty of Materials and Engineering

Technical University was established in 1948 and situated in Cluj-Napoca (the second university center in Romania) and it has a technical profile which contains 3 groups of faculties: faculties with building profile, faculties with electric, electronic, computer and telecommunication profile and the group of faculties with mechanical profile. The last one contains the faculty of Science and Material’s Engineering too, where specialist in areas: material’s science (material’s elaboration, of advanced materials, their mechanical and structural characterization) and the material’s processing engineering (procedures of processing the materials) prepare. In these areas it is assured a preparation at a masterate and doctorate level.

The University has a large experience in the international relations area and also in the educational programs. A program like this was: Program LEONARDO Nr. RO/99/2/013057/PI/II.1.1.c/FPC “Increasing of the Competency of Mechanical Smes by Continuing Vocational Training Based on Innovation and Technological Transfer”. Another program is LEONARDO, a preparation program during the practical and license stage with IUT1 GRENOBLE (answerable L. Brandusan), France; Program ERASMUS collaboration program between universities from: Clausthal, Germany (answerable L. Brandusan), IUT1 Grenoble France (answerable L. Brandusan), Italy (Turin), Spain (Madrid), Portugal (Setubal) etc.

Welding Technology Society

Welding Technology Society is founded in 02.05.2001 in Turkey. The number of members of Welding Technology Society which are from universities and industries has reached to 45 in very short time. We hope that there will be a fast increase in member number with activities. The aim of Welding Technology Society is to introduce the importance of welding training, to prepare publications to trade certificated welders, to change information with international welding institutions, to provide contact between persons and institutions in welding sectors, to transfer of developments in the world to the welding sector and science workers, to serve to our country publishing books, journal ext, to get certificated welders who can make welding of natural gas and oil pipes and pressure equipment, to establish a welding institute or a welding research center which can represent our country in the university and for these aims to arrange national or international congress, conferences and symposiums.

Buğra Welding Machine Produce And Marketing

The Firm, established with the name of Koray Technical Commerce in 1994 in Ankara. Had started to business corporation according to demands of metal welding sector by marketing of MIG-MAG welding machines, rectifier welding machines, arc welding machines, welding electrodes, MIG-MAG welding wires and abrasive stones.

With the Company’s accumulation of knowledge which has given it from it’s past, has started to manufacture welding machines by the brand name of Bugra to contribute to Turkish industry and economics.

It’s production includes MIG/MAG welding machines, rectifier welding machines, arc welding machines and submerged arc welding machines. The company makes special productions for the automation welding systems and butt fusion welding systems according to customer’s demands.

Products have got “TSE” (The Institute of Turkish Standardizations) concordance certificate. To protect to consumers rights, company has got “warranty certificate” and “service authorization certificate” has given by the Ministry of Industry.

The Company makes its sales and after sale service web with it’s coordinated regional distributors all around Turkey.

The Company has “ISO-9001” quality management system certification, and plans to finish about its working for the “CE” mark in 2008.