Mersin Metropolitan Municipality

Department of R & D and Projects contributes to business processes carried out by Mersin Metropolitan Municipality by conducting research, review, analysis and reporting activities for effective and efficient use of municipal resources. Our main duties; • To conduct research and development studies to improve municipal services or to create new services. • To carry out projects to promote innovation culture within the institution • Regularly to follow national and international calls for proposals • To inform the relevant departments about the sources of funds utilizable to our municipality • To develop projects for project proposals (funding sources) that are open or to be opened in line with the needs of our municipality • To carry out the preparation of the project proposals, application processes and project activities for the projects to be executed by R & D Directorate • To manage the application process from the preparation of the project proposal with the support of the executive units to the period to gain right to receive a grant • To carry out necessary research studies to find project partners at national and international level • To develop collaborative projects with district municipalities, public institutions, universities and non-governmental organizations • To investigate good project samples at national and international level • To provide training for writing projects to our Municipality personnel in case of need. Mersin Metropolitan Municipality is looking for projects to join as partner within Erasmus+ Programme, European Youth Together 2019. (We are also keen to join all types of projects to be offered) Mersin is a large city and a port on the Mediterranean coast of southern Turkey. The population of Mersin is 1.727.255. Mersin has previous significant experiences in European funded projects, in particularly within the IPA, Capacity Building in the Field of Climate Change in Turkey Grant Scheme (CCGS) and Town Twinning. If you are interested to receive more information and/or to liaise with Mersin Municipality, please us on asap before the deadline 18.07.2019. More information of Mersin Metropolitan Municipality are available on https://www.mersin.bel.tr/en