The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and the Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (MÜSİAD) signed a Cooperation Protocol.

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) and Independent Industrialists' and Businessmen's Association (MÜSİAD) Cooperation Framework Protocol Signing Ceremony took place at the MÜSİAD Industry and Technology Summit (MUST 23) event. Accompanied by the Minister of Industry and Technology Mehmet Fatih Kacır; The protocol was signed by President Prof. on behalf of TÜBİTAK. Dr. Hasan Mandal signed it on behalf of MÜSİAD, President Mahmut Asmalı.

The details of the cooperation framework protocol made with the aim of increasing science and technology-centered cooperation are as follows:

Providing announcement and promotional support within the scope of the programs and studies carried out by both parties, sharing opinions and suggestions, establishing joint working groups and making improvement suggestions to increase the effectiveness of the application, evaluation, support and monitoring processes of TÜBİTAK support programs,

Introducing TÜBİTAK support programs to MÜSİAD members through the R&D Support Unit to be established within MÜSİAD, informing them about updates, and organizing training on project preparation and presentation processes;

Coordinated execution of activities such as matching project partners among MÜSİAD members and creating project consortiums in TÜBİTAK's programs that are carried out with a focus on cooperation and require joint applications;

Establishing a "R&D Performance Development Commission" consisting of 3 (three) TÜBİTAK representatives and 3 (three) MÜSİAD representatives in order to ensure the coordination of the activities in question, and planning joint activities by meeting at a frequency determined by the parties, provided that the period between two meetings is not longer than six months. and monitoring.

Organizing joint information and training events to direct young MÜSİAD members to TÜBİTAK's entrepreneurship support programs,

Working with the aim of creating solution suggestions through mutual information exchange in order to increase the commercialization performance of R&D project outputs.