Turkey hosted 5th World Water Forum, in Istanbul, on 16-22 March, 2009. The forum brought together public and private organizations, international organizations, NGOs, research organizations, universites from all over the world to discuss the water issue from many aspects and to take the attention of all stakeholders on the water issue. A number of events…
DetailsEuropean Innovation Scoreboard 2008, which provides a comparative assesment of the innovation performance of EU member states and candidate countries, is published. The study presents the innovation performance of Turkey in comparison with EU in general, as well as with member and other candidate countries. The study is based on innovation performance across 29 indicators.…
DetailsAs the economic crisis deepens and widens it affects various sectors in many parts of the world. Institutions differ in responding to the impacts of the crisis. Some of the institutions suffering from downturn prefer to cut down expenditures including those on R&D, however some of the institutions continue on investing on R&D and innovation…
DetailsEuropean Union continues on encouraging the development of ICT projects under the 7th Framework Programme. 4th call for ICT projects (FP7-ICT-2009-4) is opened on 19th November 2008. The budget for ICT projects in this call is 801 million €. Project proposals prepared under 28 topics will be supported by the European Commission. The deadline for…
DetailsMinistry of Industry and Trade opened first call for projects for Turkey with ‘Regional Competitiveness Operational Programme – RCOP (2007-2009)’ co-financed by the European Union and by the Turkish Government under the Instrument for Pre-Accession Assistance (IPA). The programme aims to decrease the regional socio-economic disparities and encourage the regional competitiveness in Turkey. The programme…
DetailsTechnobee has obtained the contract for ICT Valley feasibility study which was opened by the Turkish Ministry of Trade and Commerce to carry out the studies to define the suitable places for the establishment of the ICT Valley in Turkey. TAGES CEO Leyla Arsan works as the project coordinator of the feasibility study. The project…
DetailsEuropean Union encourages the development of vocational knowledge and skills and exchange of best practices in vocational education and training (VET) via the Lifelong Learning Programme. Leonardo da Vinci is part of the Europe’s Lifelong Learning policy through which VET professionals and institutions are supported in increasing vocational qualifications and development and transfer of innovative…
DetailsTechnology is developing in a high speed, and internet is becoming much more accessible. However, the speed and wideness of this technology bring together very crucial problems such as privacy of the people. Bilgi Cagi magazine is dealing with data and information security and privacy in its November edition. TAGES is one of the main…
DetailsBilgi Cagi magazine questions the role of the education policies and implementations from curriculum to tools used in education and training in developing creative thinking and increasing competitiveness in its October edition. The magazine looks upon the current education system and emphasizes the lack of the approach which aims to develop a creative and innovative…
DetailsNew technologies and applications in the energy sector are funded by the European Union through the 7th Framework Programme. The European Commission opened energy calls for project proposals to provide funding to the successful projects. In addition, the Commission organized an Energy Research Information Day on the 24-25th of September 2008 to inform the interested…
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