EURIE Summit Conference – March 2022

OIA

EURIE is an annual international higher education conference and exhibition organized since 2016. Within a short span of time it has become the largest international education event in Eurasia, connecting the dynamic higher education sector in the Eurasian region to the world.

Since OIA’s inception in late 2019, it has been a part of two of these conferences, the one held in 2020 and the one recently conducted in March 2022. As a result of attendance in the conference in 2020, OIA and LUMS reached out to a number of institutes and made connections which further lead to signing of MoUs with universities across the globe.

EURIE exhibition is one of its kind since it offers great networking, academic partnership and business development opportunities for the participant higher education institutions and other stakeholders in higher education coming from a diverse set of countries and regions.

Although the pandemic had stopped the flow of events happening in person however the most recent EURIE conference (March 2022) was organized in a way to meet the everyday changing situation of the pandemic. This year it was organized in a hybrid format where participants could be present in Istanbul as well as attend it virtually.

Each year the conference focuses on current issues with regards to Internationalisation of higher education and other fundamental topics in higher education management with distinguished experts of the field participating in it. The key participants of the EURIE conference include senior academic leadership, international office staff and directors along with other stakeholders in the sector, such as international marketing service providers, education abroad consultants, and public higher education authorities.

The topic and theme for 2022’s conference was “Imagining the future of international education”. It was held from 2nd March – 5th March with 3 days of virtual programming and 3 days of on-site programming in Istanbul, Turkey. The session was divided with in-person sessions as well as online sessions, these included:

  • Virtual exhibition area
  • Conference halls
  • Virtual networking lounge
  • Panel discussions
  • Roundtable discussions
  • Campus tours
  • Workshops

Hence, the conference is meant for the participants to share ideas, innovate and imagine the future of international education!