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.

WIDESPREAD 2017 Teaming Call addresses the challenge of Research and Innovation (R&I) area convergence among European countries, both EU member states and associated countries. It is a call of strategic importance for Turkish Research institutions that aim at creating new “Centres of Excellence” and create and promote a long-term science and innovation strategy.

A very successful workshop took place for a full week (9-13 May 2016), organised by “Turkey in Horizon 2020” Project with the active support of TUBITAK and the Turkish Ministry of Development. The workshop’s aim was to provide a “hands-on” practical training, to selected coordinators in the preparation of key sections of their project proposals. This Proposal Development Workshop offered to the participants the chance to learn from experienced experts with long involvement in successful H2020 proposals and projects.

It was a demanding, interactive, 5-days’ workshop, where the 22 participants presented their ideas, discussed their strategies, shared experiences and learned how to avoid mistakes in their proposal.

An identical, 2nd workshop will be organized on the 18th of July, to give the opportunity to, even more, participants to improve their skills and their chances of success in the call.

Both events are organised in Ankara Plaza hotel, in the centre of the city (Bestekar Sok. No:5 Kavaklidere Ankara).

The 1st Access to Risk Finance event took place in Istanbul on May 26th, 2016. It was a full day and a very successful event with experts and key speakers coming from Turkey in H2020 project, TUBITAK, International Development Ireland (IDI), European Investment Bank (EIB), ACT Venture Capital and Borsa Istanbul.

You can find all the presentations in our helpdesk.
You can see all the photos of the event in our Flickr account.

A total number of 2,005 proposals were submitted in response to the SME-1 (Phase I) May 3rd 2016 cut-off (H2020-SMEINST-1-2016_03_05_2016). The number of proposals for each topic is shown below:

You can also see an updated map (and list) of all successful proposals in the EASME website.

The 3rd Focus Group Training dedicated on Legal and Financial Issues in H2020 projects, took place last week in Istanbul.

You can find all the presentations in our help desk.

he European Patent Office is organising a series of four one-hour virtual classroom sessions introducing the main concepts of IP management.

The course targets: staff in small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) coming to IP management from a background in, for example, R&D, business development or general management.

More information can be found here.

Since the beggining of our project we have organised, 7 events in various cities in Turkey: Ankara, Istanbul, Denizli, Konya, Bolu, Ismir. These events range from General Training events where an overview of the Horizon 2020 programme is presented, to more specific and targeted workshops focused to more experienced researchers and SMEs on H2020 Proposal Development. In all our events participation exceeded our expectations.

Be sure to check our Helpdesk portal where you can find all our training material, usefull documents and you can submit your own question on Horizon 2020 IPR, Legal and Financial Issues.

You can also check our social media accounts:

• Like us on Facebook
• Follow us on Twitter
• Join our LinkedIn groups: Turkey in H2020 (open to all) and Turkey in H2020 – IMS (open only to Information Multipliers)
• Check out all the photos from our events in our Flickr account

So far our project team organised 6 very successful events where participation exceeded our expectations. After our launch event and the Information Multipliers Workshop in Ankara and our 1st IPR event in Istanbul, our experts gave 3 General Training daily events, where participants had the opportunity to familiarise themselves with Horizon 2020 programme and its thematic areas. Furthermore a Thematic specific event on the ICT theme was organised in Ankara.

More events are coming in the following months, along with some very helpful tools to support you in proposal preparation.

Stay tuned!