COST Actions
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The purpose of the Career Development Program (3501) is to encourage the studies of scientists with PhD degree, who have just started their careers by providing project support.
R&D is the innovative activities carried out on a systematic basis with the aim of increasing scientific and technical know-how and the use of the resulting know-how in new applications (products, processes). Innovation, on the other hand, refers to a series of scientific, technological, financial and commercial activities aimed at transforming an idea into an improved, enhanced or new and saleable product or process.
About Funding Programme
The Program was initiated in line with the decision taken at the " The Supreme Council for Science and Technology (BTYK)" meeting held on March 10, 2005, in order to meet the needs of public institutions that can be met with R&D or to solve their problems.
According to the results of R&D Activities Survey 2011 conducted by TurkStat, R&D Expenditures (GERD) in Turkey increased by 20.4% compared to the previous year and reached to 11.2 Billion TRY in 2011. The share of GERD in GDP was 0.86%, total number of full time equivalent (FTE) R&D personnel was 92,801 and FTE researchers was 72,109 in 2011.
Gross Domestic Expenditures on Research and Development (GERD)
ICTurkey 2011 International Brokerage Event was held in Ä°stanbul Ceylan InterContinental Otel on September 27.
ICTurkey 2011 has been an indispensible platform for sharing information and experience on political and technical level in information and communication technologies, establishing new partnerships and cooperating international R&D programmes including Turkey. Therefore, 205 Turkish and 75 foreign researchers from 25 countries and business representatives attended to this event.