Project Coordination, Implementation and Research Center was established in June 2010 with the purpose of executing of Life Long Learning (Leonardo da Vinci,Gruntvig,Comenius), Youth Programmes and 7.Framework Programmes which are executed and managed by DPT- Center for European Union Education and Youth Programmes – Turkish National Agency (www.ua.gov.tr). The Bidding for international technical support is also executed by project center. It gives consultation and coordination services in collaboration with the academic and administrative departments of the university and executes the activities like pre- interview for mutual agreements with the represantatives from EU members and non-member countries. In addition, it also provides respresentation of the university in the national / international meetings related to these programmes.
The aim of Project Center is to increase the utilization rate of national/international funds of Gazi University , to enhance the quality and number of the scientific and social projects, to provide the consultation about the project regarding the public and private sectors, to facilitate the accessibility of the grant resources for the instructor and to provide the coordination of the projects carried out within the university.
Beside the Scientific Research Projects, it is really important to make projects of EU IPA, National Agency, FP7. ,Ministry of Development, TUBITAK (The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey), SANTEZ, Agencies of Development and other projects prepared by the instructors for the collaboration between the university and non-governmental organizations and for the university – industry cooperation. Thanks to these projects above, it is provided for both the budget the scientific studies at university and the new ideas that are brought into economy in a concrete way and with a cheaper financing. Gazi University is able to supply the equipment, laboratories, computer and consumable material from these big projects and also academic activities (workshop, seminar, conference), vocational education and foreign language courses that are aimed at increasing the capacity will be partially supported with these projects.
Project Center provides the availability of the project products more easily in the scientific and social studies by activating the use of the resources and accounting of the projects. It will increase the international mobility of the university, the number of publication and change the academic viewpoint of the instructors with these projects. The realization most of the project with a foreign partner will provide the increasing of the abroad experience of instructors. The custom of project- based thinking and designing/projecting of academic works will be developed by that way. Besides increasing of the quality of national and international projects, Project Center will also provide to our university to take part in more projects by multiplier effect.
Within the mobility in projects, students will be able to get opportunity to go abroad, to develop their foreign languages and to have a chance the employment opportunities by working in the projects as well as the instructors that benefit from the Project Center. With the laboratory, equipments and the modules developed in the projects, they will get able to achieve a more quality in learning environment. When all these activities are realized, there will not be a financial burden for the university.
In addition to all of that, Project Coordination Implementation and Research is needed to keep all the project agreements, projects outputs, tender documents, interim and final reports for the inspection that will be held in future years , to ensure compliance with the expenditures documents and to avoid the loss of University’s funding from such expense items as insurance Premium, amortization, income tax.
to announce National and international Call for proposals to all relevant academics and units
to provide communication and coordination between people or groups who prepared /will prepare the project
to enable the effective and the proper use of project resources
to take part in scientific, vocational and educatory works, to give consultation and information service
to monitor project management processes
to support career planning and academic development
to enhance relations in the frame of regional, national and international to support the collaboration university-industry and to accelerate the transmission of applicable results to industry
to execute the academic and scientific activities of university with project consciousness
to apply for bid technical support of the national and international project and programs, to prepare bid documents
to increase social and scientific projects activities from the point of quality and quantity
Education, consultation and publishing activities
to encourage the instructors about project writing
to support instructors on technical issues concerning project preparing and implementation stage.
to organize seminar and information meetings in departments about project management
to collaborate and to make common working with the Continuing Education Center of Gazi University and the other units.
to collaborate with the national and international institutions about project writing and management, to encourage and organize the common working, to arrange congress and scientific meetings and publish of them , to coordinate promotional activities
to offer consultation service for the public and private sectors
to publish articles with regard to subject in the end of research and implementation studies
by evaluating the requests and suggestions of industrial enterprises , to bring the new work items into question and to promote academicians to prepare projects in this context.
to make pre-evaluation (administrative control) of the projects submitted by the name of Gazi University,
to send back project applications that are not prepared properly to relevant units, institutions and instructors to correct them .
to initiate national and international projects, to monitor application, reporting and termination of projects.
to ensure the realization of expenditures according to the administrative and financial rules announced by the contract authority and to the grant agreement.
to provide necessary resources ( personal, subcontracting, purchasing, invoice tracking, graduate student, etc.), project revision management, to execute the effective use of the agreement and budget according to project partners and project planning
to ensure proper and effective use of the project resources
to provide accessibility of the project outputs.
to evaluate the proposals to take part as a partner or coordinator at the national and international projects or bid technical support and to submit a report to Rector about decision
to take part in biddings for technical support, service procurement, consultation of the project or programs; in case of winning , to carry out implementations indicated in the technical bulletin
to organize national and international project markets
to create data base related to projects executed at Gazi University and regarding workspaces and interests of in structors.
to keep all archive information in data base and by publishing these information and projects products on the webpage of Projects Coordination Implementation and Research Center and to ensure that interested people are able to get it.
to get and keep all kinds of expenditure documents related to projects , interim and final reports , agreements, copies and originals outputs of projects for use in national and international inspections.
to publish “activity reports” periodically related to activities performed.
to enhance the information concerning research areas, to support researchers who will go to abroad for a short-time to participate to the international meetings, to give a chance people who will come from abroad for this purpose, to reward successful efforts at the international level, to execute monitoring visit to national and international projects.
to carry out other tasks assigned by Gazi University
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