Support to the Quality Infrastructure in Turkey

Short-Term project actions are technical trainings that are given especially on New Approach Directives in order to remove technical trade barriers in Turkey and to make Turkey become the part of Community Internal Market, where the free movement of the goods is achieved.

It provides between 3 & 5-day technical advice and training on a specific topic, anywhere in Turkey.

All public and private institutions and non-governmental organisations could benefit from the project. In order to benefit these trainings, the application should be made collectively. In other words, the applicants should be collective institutions. For instance:

• Ministries and governmental agencies,
• Quality infrastructure organisations,
• Industrial associations and/or federations,
• Professional associations and/or federations,
• Chambers of Commerce and Industry,
• Non-governmental organisations,
• Non-profit organisations,

Requests should be in a form of a standard application form. The application guide is highly recommended to read.

The requested expertise does not collide with other similar technical assistance (for example; Long-Term Technical Assistance within the scope of the project or other EU projects).

Clearness, transparency and impartiality are taken into consideration during the evaluation of the application form in addition to the specific procedure of the Expertise Centre. After the application forms have been received by the Expertise Centre, it takes at least 4 months (in average between 6 and 8 weeks) to assess and approve them. The applicants are informed in line with their request.

Technical training, in a form of a workshop, consists of 2 parts:
• General presentation and philosophy of the subject (½ day)
• Case studies and practical work of the trainees (second day and the following days)

Maximum 20 trainees per specific training and homogeneous groups as to their equivalent skills and knowledge are recommended. The organisation of the training is carried out by in co-operation with the Expertise Centre and the institution that will benefit from the training. The whole expenditures of the experts are met by the project. According to the procedures, the experts are selected by CEN (European Committee for Standardisation).

The training is generally delivered either in Turkish or in one of the three European Union languages (English, German or French) with simultaneous or consecutive translation into Turkish.