The KUASAR Team, which is a member of the IEEE Club and made up of the students of our university participating in the world's largest Aviation, Space and Technology Festival’s competition in the category of "Barrier-Free Living Technologies" in the Black Sea of ​​TEKNOFEST, which will be held in Samsun between August 30 – September 4, 2022, will participate in the K-ROD Smart Walking Stick Project. They exhibited their work in the final stage of the competition, which was held in Trabzon between 5 -7 August 2022 and passed the jury’s assessment successfully.

To the competitions partaking in “TEKNOFEST Aerospace and Technology Festival,” which is held under the leadership of Turkish Technology Team Foundation and TR Ministry of Industry and Technology, and with the support of Türkiye’s leading technology companies, public institutions, media organizations and universities, more than 149 thousand teams and more than 500 thousand competitors applied this year.

As a result of the application to the European Commission, in addition to the 265 thousand Euros we received from the European Commission, our university has been entitled to receive 84 thousand Euros grant support to realize the exchange of university students, academic and administrative personnel in the period of Erasmus+ KA171 2022 Call for Proposals with partner universities in Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Morocco, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia, South Africa, Kenya, Cameroon, Nigeria and Bangladesh.