The European Commission has launched the new biggest EU funding programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020, and the first calls of the programme were published on Dec 11th, 2013. The first Project proposals have been submitted and some of them were already evaluated. The negotiation process for the participation to the H2020 finalized between…
DetailsThe OPEN (Open Innovation for Adult Learning) Project ended with a final meeting hosted by Spanish partner Inercia Digital in El Rompido, Spain on June 19-22, 2014. OPEN Project, which is an LLP, Grundtvig Learning Partnership Project, started in 2012 with the participation of four Project partners; Inercia Digital (Spain), TAGES (Turkey), Gecko (UK) and…
DetailsFirst time in the World, Great Festival of Creativity was organized on May 20-22, 2014 by London Design Festival in Istanbul, Turkey. This festival was the first one of GREAT Festivals which bring together the experts and artists from the world of British fashion, design, luxury, innovation, technology, education, food and beverages. The Great Festival…
DetailsDevelopers, designers, coders, idea owners met at Hackathonist on May 8-11, 2014 and competed to make Istanbul City smarter by the apps developed for Istanbul transportation. Hackathonist was organized by TAGES in the cooperation with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality within the EU-funded CitySDK Project. Nowadays, Hackathon events are very popular in the world of the developers…
DetailsOne of the members of MetroPlus Team expressed his impressions in a blog On my way to Hackathonist 2014, I only had an idea and formulations derived from it at my disposal. It was the first time I’ve participated in an Hackathon and my inexperience in the software development field casted a doubt in my…
DetailsFuture Intertnet Assembly (FIA) 2014 was held in Athens on March 18-20, 2014 with great interest of participants from science and research community all over the Europe. This year FIA focused on reshaping the Future Internet infrastructure for innovation. Future Intertnet Assembly (FIA) 2014 was held in Athens on March 18-20, 2014 with great interest…
DetailsThe Travelist team of Hackathonist 2013 developed “recycle” application during the coding challenge in FutureEverything Event in Manchester on March 29-30, 2014 and won 750£ award in the category of environmental challenge. Nowadays, many events related open data[1] are around. In recent years, the awareness on importance of opening data, turning data into business and…
DetailsTAGES, as one of the partners of the CitySDK Project, is going to organize HACKATHONIST 2014 on Smart City Applications, in cooperation with Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) on May 8-11, 2014 in Istanbul. HACKATHONIST is a developer competition event which is organized by TAGES and Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) within CitySDK Project which aims to…
DetailsInformation Day presenting ICT-enabled Public Sector Innovation in the new EU framework programme for Research and Innovation, Horizon 2020 was realized on Feb 10th 2014 in Brussels, Belgium. After the launch of Horizon 2020 Programme, several information days related to specific topics have been organizing by the European Commission in order to inform the participants…
DetailsThe European Commission organized the Horizon 2020 Future Internet Info Day in Brussels, Belgium on Jan 31st 2014. The participants coming from all over the Europe were informed about the aspects of the new Horizon 2020 Programme by the European Commissioners and presented their Project ideas on future internet related topics. The Horizon 2020 Future…
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