Our General Training events are an introduction to the Horizon 2020 programme of the EC. They are useful to any newcomer in the European R&D grants that would like to explore opportunities under the biggest R&D programme of the European Commission.

Now you can watch the full event in English or in Turkish translation exactly as it is presented, by Thies Wittig our Deputy Team Leader and Training Expert.

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Turkey in Horizon 2020 project has produced a new introductory brochure on Intellectual Property Rights in relation to Horizon 2020 projects. The document provides an overview of available tools for protecting IP, what IP means for an SME or an entrepreneur and how you can deal with IP in the proposal stage of Horizon 2020 projects.

This guide is full of references and links to more detailed material.

A Turkish version of the guide covers also the specificities of the Turkish IP environment.

You can download both versions from our helpdesk>>

An Innovative Turkish SME has just been awarded a major €2m EU grant under the ‘Turkey in Horizon 2020’ programme.

Ankara based Kuartismed have developed a unique electronic medical device which analyses the swallowing patterns of pre-term babies. Using sophisticated algorithms specially developed by the company to analyse these patterns, the device indicates whether the infant is swallowing correctly and frequently enough.

Feedback from these tiny patients allows medical staff to make sure that enough vital nutrients are reaching the infants in the crucial early days of incubator care. This potentially life-saving device was seen as highly innovative by EC evaluators who could see the potential to both save lives and to open new markets. Kuartismed were awarded the valuable grant to complete their research and clinical trials so that the device can reach the market and soon start saving precious lives.

A key feature of the Turkey in Horizon 2020 programme is a series of one-to-one consultancy visits made by one of our Key Experts to high-technology Turkish companies who could benefit from the Horizon 2020 programme.

At the end of the first year of the project over 40 companies had been visited. These ranged from leading-edge IT companies in areas such as distance learning and flight simulators to highly specialised businesses in key areas of research from stem cells to robotics and underwater exploration. Each company receives a detailed report following the half-day visit. The Expert’s report focuses not only on suitability for Horizon 2020 and national R&D funding but also discusses key business issues such as future product and business strategies and potential markets.

Roughly 80% of the project ideas discussed with these businesses were considered suitable for EC support. For further information contact the NCP for your sector at TÜBİTAK or the Turkey in Horizon 2020 Helpdesk.

The Theme Oriented Training for H2020’s “Secure, Clean and Efficient Energy” calls took place in Limak Ambassadore Hotel, Ankara on the 16th of February 2017.

You can see and download pictures from the event from our flickr account.

You can find all relevant material to our Helpdesk. 

It was dedicated to provide to participants practical knowledge of proposal evaluation. Therefore, it was divided into a number of sessions reflecting practical steps in proposal evaluation.

The objectives of the event were the following:

• To train IMs on evaluation process in H2020 and how to identify strong and weak points of the proposals from evaluator’s perspective.
• To provide IMS with practical knowledge on proposal evaluation against the evaluation criteria.
• To enable IMS to provide support to their customers to improve the quality of their proposals.

Presentations and other useful materials from the event are only accessible to Information Multipliers through our helpdesk. If you are an Information Multiplier and you cannot access the dedicated area in our helpdesk, let us know: iprsupport@turkeyinh2020.eu. You can also see the photos from the event in our Flickr albums.

Another successful event was organised by Turkey in H2020 project team and TUBITAK, in the eve of 2016. It brought together more than 280 researchers, entrepreneurs and academics from Europe and Turkey. Following the welcome addresses from Dr Orkun Hasekioğlu, Vice President of TÜBİTAK and Tom Bo Clausen, from European Commission (Through an on-line Video call), 4 paralel workshops were organised in the following areas:

• IoT
• Big Data
• Robotics
• Photonics
• Micro- and Nano-electronics

You can find more for this event, download all presentations and photos from our helpdesk website.

The first General Training event of 2017 of “Turkey in Horizon2020” Project took place by the slopes of Erzurum, in Polat Erzurum Resort Hotel.

You can see pictures of the event in our flickr account.

You can download the UPDATED general training presentations from our helpdesk.

Cities of the Future Brokerage Event took place last week in Istanbul. It was a very successful and fruitful event with close to 300 participants meeting together and exchanging ideas. 288 participants came to the event from Turkey and Europe.

You can see the photos of the event in our Flickr page and download all event presentations from our helpdesk.