Last week, we completed the 14th International Congress. Yes, the 14th International Congress.
Looking back, we began with trademark registration, followed by the website, and then, through 5-minute presentations and social responsibility projects, we reached hearts in Pakistan, Romania, and North Macedonia.
We completed the 14th event, which was held twice in North Macedonia, as well as in Morocco, Jordan, Istanbul, and Sakarya.
I wonder who did this and how we ended up completing the 14th series. I’ve noticed something exciting: every edition, we’ve had heroes and heroines who supported us and lightened our burden.
Our mission was to “We caress the souls of researchers” Assoc. Prof. Dr Liza Alili Sulejmani, representing the North Macedonian team that has participated in all our congresses since 2018; Professor Dr S. Waleck Dalpour, who has participated four times from the United States; Prof. Dr Rashmi Gujrati, who has come from India twice; our associate professor İnanç Kabasakal, who came from Izmir; our team of 7-8 people from Romania who have participated in the last four congresses; and Dr Miheala Pop, representing our newest researchers whose names escape me at the moment. If people come from such distant places to a place like Sakarya, which is not easily accessible, repeatedly, it means we’re doing great things.
The kitchen is at least 7-8 months behind every event. Frankly, I can’t help but experience periods where I feel psychologically constrained at the starting points. From the website to the editorial policy, from the boards to the venue selection… and then there are our students, who are assigned every day to present. Despite their involvement in just one day of the 7-8 month process, there was one colleague who, beyond the responsibilities of their duties, offered support and a sense of personal responsibility, offering their insights into how they could add even more value. While I thank the entire team, I’d also like to congratulate Şule Arabacı, who stepped up to the plate with her teamwork and commitment, and Ramazan Çapraz, who took responsibility for transfers and many other steps. It would be unfair to forget Dr Miheala Pop, who rallied the Romanian team.
We often fail to appreciate the value of ready-made things. It’s unpleasant to say, but sometimes, because these colleagues are presented with ready-made things, they fail to grasp the full significance of the situation. Instead of offering thanks, they may harshly criticize them. While they may be right from their perspective, it doesn’t hurt our motivation when we’re working with good intentions. We need to reassess ourselves or take precautions in this regard because no excuse should dampen our motivation.
There’s one point that pains me: our social responsibility project, the 5-minute presentation competitions and blog writing. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to organize these competitions in Türkiye, which I’ve personally funded in Pakistan, Romania, and North Macedonia. The issue here isn’t that I’m actually paying for them out of my own pocket; it’s that I’ve been stuck with absurd hierarchies in Türkiye, which have hindered me from the very beginning of the idea. However, with the funding from those competitions I’ve organized abroad, I could have organized perhaps 14-15 competitions in Türkiye. I’m writing these as a researcher, not as a doctoral dissertation student. Another point is that, to encourage unemployed master’s and postgraduate students to publish, they offer discounted or free admission to the congress after completing a certain number of blog posts. Although we launched this in 2018, only one or two people have been able to do so to date—very few.
5 Mint Presentation- Social responsibility Projects;
Blog system:
As Congress secretary, I would like to thank our Congress Academic Chairman, Assoc. Prof. Dr Fatma FİDAN, faculty member of Faculty of Political Sciences at Sakarya University, Porf. Dr. Asena BOZTAŞ,faculty member of the Faculty of Sakarya Applied Sciences University, have been unwavering in their support since the congress’s inception.
I have dreams;
To see our journal and congress books featured in the top indexes…
To establish research villages in different parts of the world and organize congresses there, to host guests there, to establish research camps at certain times of the year…
Your participation in our congresses, your submission of quality studies to our journal, your support for social responsibility projects…
Who knows what tomorrow will bring?
Kürşat Çapraz
Secretary of InTraders
www.intraders.org