Eurasian Universities Union EURAS is a non-profit Eurasia organization affiliated with the European Association for Quality Assurance in Higher Education (ENQA) founded by seven state universities from Eurasia to establish collaborations between European and Asian Universities and to exchange faculty, students and staff. The Project is similar to the EU's Erasmus Programme but covers European (including those in non-EU countries) and Asian Universities. Members The seven founding members of the organization are: Çanakkale 18 Mart University, Turkey Gabrova Technical University, Bulgaria Institute of Management, Business and Law, Russia Istanbul Aydın University, Turkey Khazar University, Azerbaijan Komrat State University, Moldova Selçuk University, Turkey EURAS members recognize each other, and include: ABMS the Open University of Switzerland Switzerland Academy of Public Administration Moldova Al-al-Bayt University Jordan Almaty Technological University Kazakhstan Al-Qadisiya University Iraq American University for Humanities Georgia American University in the Emirates UAE Amirkabir University of Technology Iran Andrei Şaguna University-Constanta Romania An-Najah National University Palestine Asfendiyarov Kazakh National Medical University Kazakhstan Azerbaijan State Economy University Azerbaijan Baghdad University Iraq Bahria University Pakistan Baku Asiya University Azerbaijan Baku State University Azerbaijan Belgrade Banking Academy Serbia Budapest Business School Hungary Business Academy Aarhus Denmark Business School Notenboom The Netherlands Catholic Kwandong University Republic of Korea Caucasian Institute of Democratic Integration Georgia Crimea State Engineers and Pedagogical Ukraine Dagestan State Pedagogical University Dagestan David Tvildiani Medical University Georgia Dimitrie Cantemir Christian University Romania EMUNI University Slovenia Epoka University Albania European College “JURIDICA” Kosovo Final International University Turkish Republic of North Cyprus Fırat University Turkey Gazi University Turkey Geneva Business School Switzerland Gotse Delcev University Macedonia Gulf Medical University - Ajman UAE Hamdard University Pakistan Higher College of Technology UAE ILIRIA Royal University Kosovo Institute of System Technologies Russia International Business School CESTE Spain International University of Sarajevo Bosnia and Herzegovina International University of Struga Macedonia Islamic Gaza University Palestine Jahan Institute of Higher Education Afghanistan Karachai Circassia University Russia Kazakhstan Institute for Strategic Studies Kazakhstan Kazan Federal University Russia Kırklareli University Turkey Kharazmi University Tehran Iran Konstantin Preslavsky University of Shumen Bulgaria Manas University Kyrgyzstan Medical University of Plovdiv Bulgaria Mediterranean University of Albania Albania Middlesex University London United Kingdom Nakhchivan University Azerbaijan National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Kazakhstan Kazakhstan National University of Water Management and Natural Resources Use Ukraine Odessa State Environmental University Ukraine Odessa State Polytechnic National University Ukraine Odlar Yurdu Universiteti Azerbaijan Penza State University Russia Sagar