High School Students Go to the Poles
The 2204-C High School Students’ Polar Research Projects Competition is in full swing and continues to captivate the finalists with new innovations every year. Approximately 200 teachers and students involved in the 60 projects that made it to the finals of this year’s competition will give oral presentations at the 6th National Polar Sciences Workshop, organized by the TÜBİTAK MAM Institute of Polar Research and hosted by Karadeniz Technical University […]
TÜBİTAK MAM KARE Trains Polar Scientists of the Future!
As part of the 16th Nature Education and Science Schools Support Program organized by TÜBİTAK BİTO, a project led by the TÜBİTAK MAM Institute of Polar Research, with the following partners: Istanbul Technical University, Abant İzzet Baysal University, Keçiören Science and Arts Center, Düzce Science and Arts Center, Prof. Dr. Aziz Sancar Science and Arts Center, Diyarbakır Çınar Science and Arts Center, and […]
Poles Moved to Trabzon
As part of the TÜBİTAK 4004 16th Nature Education and Science Schools Program, the “Our World’s Black Box: The Poles, Illuminated by Science,” was successfully completed on October 9–13, 2022. The project, which received nearly 300 applications from 49 different provinces, brought together teachers from 28 different high school departments across 20 provinces […]
Announcement Regarding the Number of Special Calls
Dear Researcher, Polar research is one of the areas to which our country has placed particular emphasis, especially in recent years. The National Polar Science Program (UKBP), published in 2017, established the bureaucratic, financial, scientific, and technical infrastructure for research to be conducted in the polar regions (Antarctica, the Arctic, and oceanic areas). The UKBP’s vision is “to rank among the leading nations in the world through original scientific research in polar sciences” […]
13th SCAR Biology Symposium Begins
Click here for details on the 13th Biology Symposium, to be held by SCAR in New Zealand from July 31 to August 4, 2023
Polar Wind in Istanbul and Gaziantep
The EDUCATE project, part of the European Commission’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions and coordinated by our TÜBİTAK MAM Institute of Polar Research, was held on September 30and October 1 at Şelale Park in Tuzla, Istanbul, and Festival Park in Gaziantep. During the events organized as part of the project, the impact and benefits of polar research on our daily lives were explained, raising public awareness about the polar regions and global climate change […]
Sixth National Workshop on Polar Sciences
Date: November 30 – December 1, 2022 Location: Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey Program: In 2019, with the establishment of the Institute of Polar Research at the Marmara Research Center of the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK MAM KARE), a scientific organizational structure was put in place to serve as an institutional umbrella in our country. From the implementation of the 2018–2022 National Polar Science Program to the execution of scientific polar expeditions […]
TEKNOFEST Wind Blows from the North
TEKNOFEST KARADENİZ 2022, organized at Samsun-Çarşamba Airport with TÜBİTAK as a partner, concluded with a spectacular closing ceremony. At the ceremony, the second- and third-place winners in the competitions—which attracted more than 600,000 applicants—received their awards. The awards for those who placed in the TÜBİTAK competitions were presented by Mehmet Fatih Kacır, Deputy Minister of Industry and Technology; Selçuk Bayraktar, Chairman of the TEKNOFEST Board of Directors; Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zülkif Dağlı, Governor of Samsun; and TÜBİTAK […]
Cooperation between TÜBİTAK MAM KARE and ITU in Polar Research
A cooperation protocol was signed between the TÜBİTAK MAM Institute of Polar Research (KARE) and the Istanbul Technical University Satellite Communications and Remote Sensing Application and Research Center (UHUZAM) to form a partnership for research covering the polar regions. Polar research is one of the visionary projects that our country has prioritized in recent years, alongside space exploration. Within this framework, annual expeditions to the South and North Polar regions […]
New Cooperation in Antarctic Research
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) prepared between the TÜBİTAK MAM Institute of Polar Research (KARE) and the Brazilian Ministry of Science, Technology, and Innovation (MCTI) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on August 15, 2022, via an online ceremony, to enhance scientific cooperation in Antarctic research. The MoU was signed by TÜBİTAK President Prof. Dr. Hasan MANDAL and Brazilian Minister of Industry, Technology, and Innovation Paulo ALVİM. Under the agreement, the two countries will collaborate on climate change in Antarctica […]