Today, universities are one of the locomotive powers of regional development, and they aim for regional development and national development as well as education and training activities, and in this context, the studies of the KOP Region Universities Association (UNIKOP), which includes Ahi Evran University, continues at full speed. 2022 UNIKOP Strategic Planning Board held its first meeting with the online meeting held on April 20, 2022, under the chairmanship of Konya Technical University. The Vice-Rectors of UNIKOP member universities participated in the meeting, which was held under the coordination of Konya Technical University, which holds the UNIKOP term presidency. Vice-Rector Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kurt attended the meeting on behalf of KAEU.

At the meeting where the activities planned to be held in 2022 were discussed, the themes of the 9th National KOP Regional Development Symposium were determined first. Afterwards, it was decided to organize the symposium on 24-26 October 2022. The "8th Konya Technical University Engineering Student Project Market" (Konya) to be held on 12-13 May 2022, the "Dealing with Addiction in All Aspects" (Kırıkkale) symposium to be held on 26-27 May 2022 and other planned activities to be held within the scope of UNIKOP aware discussed at the Strategic Planning Board meeting. The program ended after the university representatives stated their wishes and suggestions.