About the Local Group

Before our EUROAVIA adventure, our society’s name was GTU Aerospace Society. Since we joined the EUROAVIA family, we decided to unite our powers.

Our local group is also one of the local groups that has not faculty of Aeronautics and Aerospace. That shows our passion to aviation, space fields and most importantly to EUROAVIA family.

 

About the University / Faculty

Gebze Technical University is one of the leading technological higher education institutes in Turkey that located on the borders of Istanbul and Kocaeli. Originally established in 1992. First, it named Gebze Institute of Technology. After 4th November of 2014, it has been renamed as Gebze Technical University. Our university has basic sciences, architecture and business faculties in addition to engineering departments such as electronics, computers, machine. It provides education to over 8000 students. Gebze Technical University, with its’ infrastructure, equipment and academic staff, is the youngest but most experienced university, candidate to become the most important science base in our country. Since 2013, our university has listed in top 10 as the best higher education institutes.

 

About the City

Kocaeli, where approximately 2 million people live, is known for being one of the important industrial and R&D regions of Turkey. It has also an important geographical position that connects Europe and Asia.

 

Your message

As a community, we represent our university and country by developing new projects in competitions organized at home and abroad. That brings excitement by making flight shows with model aircraft and rockets everyone from seven to seventy. In addition to our technical skills, we provide many events, interviews and conferences with experts in the aviation and space field.