Research Agencies
The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey [external link]
Technology Development Foundation of Turkey [external link]
Centre for Strategic Research [external link]
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Research Strategies and Priority Areas
Information Society Strategy 2006-2010 [external link]
Research policy in Turkey (TUBITAK report) [external link]
National STI Strategy 2011-2016 [external link]
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Estimated Public Funding of ICT Research 2013
€100 – €200 million.
Best Estimate: €140 million
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Organisations
TR-Grid [external link]
E-Turkey [external link]
E-Transformation Turkey [external link]
Turkish National Research and Education Network (ULAKNET) [external link]
Cybersecurity [external link]
Safe Web for Our Future [external link]
Turkish Academic Network and Information Centre [external link]
ILTAREN [external link]
Informatics Association of Turkey [external link]
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Projects & Initiatives
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Cognitive Radio Sensor Networks
The Cognitive Radio Sensor Network project seeks to provide a solution to problems of bandwidth allocation through using Cognitive Radio (CR) technology to arm the wireless sensor nodes with Opportunistic Spectrum Access (OSA) capability.
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Effective Load Management in Stream Processing
This project seeks to investigate techniques that help in coping with large volumes of data that cannot be handled with the available resources at hand, in the context of stream processing systems.
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e-Transformation Turkey Project
The “eTransformation Turkey Project” that was included in the 58th and 59th Government Urgent Action Plan was launched with the aim of bringing individual, fragmented ICT research under a single umbrella project so as to locate cross-sector synergies and accelerate research processes.
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Informatics and Information Security Centre
The Informatics and Information Security Centre aims to accurately analyse the security and Quality of Service requirements of informatics systems, and to select system architectures on the basis of thorough risk analyses
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Information Technologies Institute
The Information Technologies Institute (TIBITAK BTE) aims is to carry out applied research projects and develop high technology products with a specific focus in the field of sensor networks and information communication technologies.
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Mobile Ad Hoc beyond-Line-of-Sight (b-LoS) Networks
This project will develop a channel model for evaporation duct based b-LoS communications through utilising advanced communication techniques and ad-hoc networking.
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