Location:
Turkey
Part of:
Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office and Department for Science, Innovation and Technology

Science and Innovation Network pro-actively builds the opportunities for the UK scientific community to enter into valuable partnerships with policy, business and academic counterparts around the world.

Science and innovation are at the heart of government strategy for prosperity and growth. To promote international collaboration the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) jointly fund the UK Science and Innovation Network (SIN), based in 47 countries around the world. Research and knowledge is increasingly developed and transferred through international collaboration which provides opportunities to work with the best in the world, exchange students and researchers, and gain access to large scale international facilities; leading to mutual benefits for the UK and Turkey.

For an introductory brief which covers the local Science and Innovation landscape, UK priorities and successes in Turkey, read the UK Science and Innovation Network Country Snapshot.

Responsibilities

SIN Turkey works to:

  • influence science and innovation policies of Turkish government, industry and academia to benefit the UK
  • improve UK policy based on international experience and emerging opportunities and challenges with Turkey
  • stimulate strategic science collaborations with Turkey to benefit the UK and deliver wider policy goals
  • harness Turkish international technology partnerships and investment to grow UK innovation capability

Services

Influence and Insights

  • inform UK policy making – both on S&I policy and other policy areas that use science
  • influence policy abroad across range of policy areas

Collaboration

  • SIN Turkey identify opportunities, horizon scanning and facilitating sharing of scientific knowledge
  • SIN and its partners stage events in the UK and abroad to help academics, companies and institutions looking to compose research collaboration.
  • SIN Turkey is always looking to provide an international network of opportunities for UK academics, companies and institutions looking to compose research collaboration

Priorities

SIN Turkey aims to present UK science and innovation (S&I) excellence in Turkey to ensure the UK is a partner of choice and create opportunities for strategic S&I collaboration for the UK’s long-term economic growth and prosperity, working with partners across the Turkey network. In 2022-25, SIN thematic priorities are:

  • Clean energy
  • Climate and Environment
  • Health and Life Sciences
  • Emerging Technologies
  • Space
  • Cross Cutting

SIN Turkey does not have regular calls for project proposals. We aim to proactively seek out UK-Turkey collaborations in our priority areas of interest, and to reactively assess any potential projects that are suggested to us. We have good contacts with high-level stakeholders in Turkey and the UK and can assist in building strategic relationships in areas of mutual interest.

Contact us

Pınar Çelikcan, Head of SIN in Turkey (British Embassy Ankara) Email: pinar.celikcan@fcdo.gov.uk Ece Tanış, Science and Innovation Officer (British Consulate General Istanbul) Email: ece.tanis2@fcdo.gov.uk

Meşrutiyet Caddesi

No:42 Tepebaşı,

Beyoğlu 34435

İstanbul,

Turkey

  • Please note that we are not able to answer any visa or consular queries.