PIC: 925001604

PADOR: TR-2017-DPM-1007543631

See practical examples of IAAD's roles and leadership in project at the bottom of this page.

All in all, İstanbul Avrupa Araştırmaları Derneği (IAAD) aims at contributing in initiatives driven by radical vision of science-enabled technologies to generate more Inclusive, Innovative and Reflective Societies.

IAAD is a leading not-for-profit project-based research and technology civil society organisation, located in Istanbul, Turkey, and develops at the interface between science, society, and businesses, driven by R&D, education and training, social innovation and entrepreneurship.

Our organisation aim at maximising the potential for transferring results to European policy development, thus systematically integrates EU policies systems in all its initiatives, takes stock from EU recommendations and priorities, to secure a solid policy accuracy level in all anticipated outcomes.

We gather four permanent staffs full-time and seventeen project-based part-time, nine sub-contracted experts at national level, and six experts consultants at EU level, totalling 36 collaborators.

Our activities target juveniles (10-13 years old), Youth (15-29 years old) and Youth Workers, and adults, more particularly people with special education needs (SEN), people with disabilities (PwD), NEET, and more globally people with fewer opportunities or at risk of marginalisation, in particular women.

IAAD activates participative dialogue between communities and policy-makers, develops Culture, Arts and Heritage initiatives (dance and theatre plays, festivals, media events), sports and leisure activities, community cooperatives development, social entrepreneurship and encourages a variety of grass-root initiatives aiming at fostering pluralism, non -discrimination, tolerance, justice, solidarity and equality between women and men, equity and inclusion.

Our human resources gather a solid experience and set of competences in the education, training and capacity building sphere, spanning from research and development to applied methodologies: pedagogy and andragogy, instructional engineering, digital transformation processes, EU competences frameworks, work-based learning (apprenticeship), learning outcomes approach, competences recognition, valorisation, validation and certification, assessment methodologies, etc.

IAAD recently invested a series of resources to be equipped for large-scale research and technology initiatives and today, gathers key expertise in tasks integrative to such projects, among them:

• surveys/research;
• market analyses and benchmarking studies;
• data mining/management;
• EU cross-cutting priorities (gender, RRI, etc.);
• dissemination, advocacy and exploitation of results;
• stakeholders' engagement;
• policy life-cycle examination and management;
• business models and frameworks;
• contractual public and private partnerships;
• pilot experiments, and;
• impact assessment.

We foster ICT-based development and implementation of a variety of conceptual approaches such as Circular Economy and Bio Economy, involving renewable energies, Environment conservation and protection, sustainable development programmes, agriculture and natural resources conservation. ICT-based approaches and tools are key features in all IAAD’s initiatives, involving basic tools such as the Internet (Moodle, YouTube, Skype, Google Tools, Mobile Applications), and the internet of Things (connected object).

We promote specific inclusion programmes targeting the migrant population. Initiatives aim at assisting local and regional communities to increase employability with tailored learning programmes, innovative community development models (community cooperatives), promoting and supporting the capitalisation of experiences from elderly generations, linking them with Youth and the ICT sphere.

We develop a series of initiatives to support active citizen’s and Youth’s access to finance through a cooperative model in which each cooperant act as an investor, inspired BY similar models conceptualised in water.org (Gary White) and 826 National (Dave Eggers).

All IAAD’s development programmes are design with a Logical Framework Approach (LFA), and Result-Oriented Monitoring (ROM), using a set of tools and assigned staffs described in the “Project Management and Implementation Handbook” (PMIH). The PMIH encompasses the following key features for evaluation of quality levels: 1) the process; 2) the results; 3) the participants; 4) the dissemination; 5) the impact.

H2020 proposals:

• For a proposal under the call "FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking" (ID: FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020) addressing the macro algae value chain, IAAD will be responsible to develop research and pilot a business model for rural coastal area ecosystems.
• For a proposal under the call "FET-Open Challenging Current Thinking" (ID: FETOPEN-01-2018-2019-2020) aiming at developing a novel UAV applicable to safety and security, IAAD will be responsible to develop research on best practices from the civil aviation sphere, and design/pilot a training programme.
• For a proposal under the call "Develop bio-based high-performance materials for various and demanding applications" (ID: BBI-2019-SO3-R10) aiming at developing a new bio-based product for the tyre industry, IAAD is responsible to design and implement pilot experiments with the industry arena.
• For a proposal under the call "Digital Security and privacy for citizens and Small and Medium Enterprises and Micro Enterprises" (ID: SU-DS03-2019-2020) which aim to demonstrate a disruptive method to simplify the deployment of a minimum viable cyber defence for online collaboration and create a demand for digital security, IAAD is responsible to 1) design and implement Contractual Public Private Partnerships (cPPP) with the SME sphere; 2) design and pilot a training programme for cybersecurity culture .

ERASMUS+ projects:

See our dedicated webpage "ERASMUS+"