Ağrı İbrahim Çeçen University, which was established in 2007 in Ağrı, one of the frontier provinces of our country, and honorably bears the name of İbrahim Çeçen, a philanthropist businessman who is a volunteer for education, is a higher education institution that prioritizes raising qualified young people who will take part in the future of our country.
The bond of heart formed with the IC Foundation and IC Holding, and the collaborations exhibited play an important role in the growth and development of our University, which is still a young educational institution, and in taking its place among the important universities of our region and our country.
The mutual co-operation between the IC Foundation, of which I am a member of the board, and our University contributes positively to the development of our students, academicians and the sustainability of scientific activities. The concept of sustainability, which is basically defined as the ability of environmental systems to continue their functions, processes and productivity in the future, is one of the common goals of our University and IC Foundation.
In this context; IC Holding and IC Foundation's multifaceted support and contributions such as providing physical structures to our central campus, giving awards to our successful academicians for incentive purposes, supporting social responsibility projects prepared by our academicians and students, contributing to national and international symposiums, congresses, meetings and events, and organising many social, cultural and sports activities make our University experience the privilege of being a "foundation-supported university". I sincerely believe that this partnership between IC Foundation and IC Holding, which has been going on for 15 years within the framework of the understanding of sustainability as one of the common interests of our University, will further increase the contributions of our University, which raises the bar of success day by day, to our city, our region and our country, and I sincerely wish the IC Foundation success in its future endeavors.
The educational scholarships that Mr. İbrahim Çeçen, IC Holding Chairman, started to provide personally in 1984, started to meet with students in a more institutionalized structure with the establishment of the IC İbrahim Çeçen Foundation in 2004. Our foundation continues its activities in the fields of education, health, sports and cultural development.
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