Pakistan and Turkey approve 11 joint research projects

Author: Staff Report

ISLAMABAD: The Higher Education Commission (HEC) Pakistan and the Council of Higher Education (CoHE) Turkey have mutually approved 11 joint research projects under Pak-Turk Researchers Mobility Grant Programme

The programme is part of the Turkish-Pakistani cooperation within the scope of internationalisation effort of higher education systems. The programme supports new scientific and technological cooperation between Turkish and Pakistani higher education institutions through provision of funds for mobility of graduate students and academic staff.

The projects have been approved for funding for three-year duration in six priority areas, which include energy, food technologies, sustainable environment technologies, material sciences, smart transportation systems, robots and smart systems.

The Pakistani universities along with their Turkish counterparts that have won the grant are Quaid-e-Azam University, , Karadeniz Technical University, University of Agriculture, Faisalabad, Nigde Omer Halisdemir University, Nidge, GIK Institute of Engineering Science and Technology, Dumlupinar University / Karabuk University, Pakistan Institute of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Akdeniz University, Antalya, Government College University, Lahore, Bartin University, Bartin, Government College University, Faisalabad, Bingol University, Bingol, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore and Sakarya University, Sakarya / Istanbul Technical University.

The next call for research projects under the programme will be announced in May 2018.

Published in Daily Times, January 23rd 2018.

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