A school complex, which belongs to Ministry of National Education is constructed in line with the principles of integrated building design approach as a part of the project on Promoting Energy Efficiency in Buildings in Turkey and will be a model for public sector. Cezeri Green Technology Technical and Industrial...

Harran University Computer Engineering students participated to the Innocampus Hackaton, a collaborative project providing and innovation and entrepreneurship experience, with the support of the “Strenghtening Social Stability in Southeastern Anatolia Project”, run by the cooperation of UNDP Turkey and GAP Regional Development Administration.Harran University students, have joined to the Hackathon with a promising project called “E-Refugee”, a multilingual and video-rich website developed for facilitating the access to the healthcare and education for refugees.

Company visits continued in January within the context of the project, in which the obstacles leading to productivity problems in the manufacturing industry are spotted and a policy framework is being developed to resolve these problems. 87 out of 100 large-scaled manufacturer companies were reached for...

Within the context of Turkey’s Engineer Girls (TEG) Project, a partnership with Middle East Technical University’s Interdisciplinary Design Studio has been started to design a campaign for high school students to encourage them to select engineering departments in university. METU Design Studio brought together...

GAP Organic Agriculture Cluster Project is being executed by GAP Regional Development Administration with the technical assistance of UNDP since 2009. Several pilot projects in different locations with various product patterns are being implemented in the region to contribute to the aim of creating scalable and...

8th National Energy Efficiency Fair was held in İstanbul on 11-12 January 2017. Fair, which was organized by Ministry of Energy and Natural Resources, General Directorate of Renewable Energy, is conducted on the second week of January every year, on the “Energy Efficiency Week”. Concrete results of Promoting...

Izmit Waste and Residue Treatment, Incineration and Recycling Co Inc. (İZAYDAŞ) is the first and one of the biggest hazardous waste incineration facility with 35.000 t/y capacity in Turkey. Within POPs Legacy Elimination and POPs Release Reduction Project implemented by UNDP and Ministry of Environement and...

Anatolian Clusters Cooperation Platform (AKİP) is established to increase cooperation and coordination among clusters and cluster ventures. AKİP’s fourth meeting is organized by OSTİM with participation of 40 clusters nationwide. Representatives of ministries, development agencies, universities, chamber of industry,...

Trainers’ Toolkit on Climate Change developed in the context of the Joint Programme on Enhancing the Capacity of Turkey to Adapt to Climate Change, under the coordination of Ministry of Environment and Urbanization, has been updated as part of “Support for the Preparation of the Turkey's Biennial Report (FBR)...

Irena Vojáčková-Sollorano took up her appointment as the Resident Coordinator of the UN and Resident Representative of UNDP in Turkey.

Acclaimed Turkish actors Mert Fırat and Melisa Sözen are starring in a new UNDP advocacy video that takes on domestic violence in Turkey and the region with a powerful message: “Violence has no excuse”. The campaign is part of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)’s efforts to combat violence...

The projects to be supported in 2017 have been announced under the Future Lies In Tourism Project implemented in cooperation by the T.R. Ministry of Tourism and Culture, Anadolu Efes and UNDP. Under the Project that provides funding support to tourism ideas in addition to such services as training, technical...

The “Turkey’s Engineer Girls” Project, initiated by the support of Limak Holding and the Ministry of Family and Social Policies, and consulting by UNDP Turkey, will soon increase the number of scholarship awards from 40 to 60. The project aims not only to ensure that girls who aspire to become engineers achieve...

To improve livelihood opportunities of Syrians and support host communities better cope and recover from the impact of displacement, Gaziantep Municipality provides local services including vocational training, competency development programmes as well as workshops, domestic economics and psycho-social rehabilitation...