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Country joins Iceland, Norway and Ukraine in gaining fullest access to EU R&D programme
Turkey has completed its association to Horizon Europe and Erasmus+, the EU’s 2021-27 R&D and academic mobility programmes, following successful negotiations with the European Commission.
Association offers the fullest possible participation in the programmes for countries outside the bloc. Turkey’s association was completed on 27 October with the signing of agreements by its ambassador Faruk Kaymakcı and the EU R&D commissioner Mariya Gabriel.
Gabriel said Turkey’s association would reinforce the programmes’ capacities and support the country’s integration into the European Research Area and the European Education Area, two EU-led policy packages aimed at raising standards and eliminating national barriers to the mobility of knowledge.
Turkish researchers received around €277 million in EU support through the country’s association to Horizon 2020, Horizon Europe’s predecessor, and student-based projects in the country received €740m through Erasmus+ schemes in 2014-20.