In IUS Amphitheater of the International University of Sarajevo (IUS) a "European Conference on Technology and Society (EuroTecS-2013)" was held on Thursday and Friday, June 27th and June 28th, 2013. The conference was opened by the Dean of the IUS Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences, Prof. Dr. Fehim Fındık and Prof. Dr. Orhan Torkul from Sakarya University in Turkey.
IUS Rector, Prof. Dr. Özer Çınar welcomed all participants of the conference and stressed that IUS as an educational institution reaffirmed its international dimension through organization of such a conference in its premises, because Sarajevo was selected this year as the host city, and IUS as a place to meet, because of its multi-denominational and multi-cultural environment.
A special guest of the conference was Mr. Nihat Ergün, a Minister of Science, Industry and Technology of the Republic of Turkey. Mr. Ergün was also the first speaker of the EuroTecS-2013 conference. Topics for discussion at the conference were: Society, Politics and International Relations; Economics and Management; Information Management and Society; Computing and Communication; as well as Technology and Engineering.
EuroTecS-2013 conference brought together experts in the field of engineering and social sciences and lecturers were professors from faculties of technical sciences from all over the world, while participants of the conference were representatives from various organizations, from academic and scientific research staff of different educational institutions.
The conference was organized by the International University of Sarajevo, Sakarya University in Turkey, Turkish Ziraat Bank and Turkish Airlines.