R&D BROKERAGE EVENT is a well-known brand for R&D and innovation in the textile and clothing industry. The traditional summit conference held in Bursa each year is going to be organized at Merinos Atatürk Congress and Culture Center, the second biggest congress center of Turkey, on the 4th -5th of April 2013. The R&D project market summit is; on the basis of sector/industry, permanent, intemational, and the only intemational R&D market summit for the Textile and Clothing Sector of Turkey. Through this great event, it is aimed to have Textile and Apparel Sector to achieve high value added production and perform sustainable export. To this end, it is aimed to turn project ideas into partnerships and have this likely partnershîps present industry – university Joint Project proposals for the Research and Development Outreach Programs by clustering domestic and foreign faculty members, majör research and development and techno park employees, researchers and the representatives of industry organizations. Throughout the day, project poster presentations and oral presentations of the projects will be performed on the boards and thus tripartite conferences and bilateral discussions between university-industry-academics and research institutes will be carried out. UTIB R&D BROKERAGE EVENT has been continuously organized by UTIB in Bursa for the past 5 years. Also this year, for the first time, III. Turkish Home Textile Design Competition and Award Ceremony will be held parallel with the main event.
This year the event will have five main topics:
- R&D Brokerage Event
- Design competition and design area
- Business buyers delegation and show
- Conferences
- Educational seminars
And, general categories of textiles and R&D project proposals of academics and researchers, which ha ve been approved by the evaluation co m m itte e, would be exhibited in the notice boards in the lounge. Academicians may give an oral presentation about their proposal if they desire. Exporters and industrialists can examine these projects exhibited on the notice boards in the lounge. Proposals appealing have the opportunity to be converted into partnerships. Partnership will help both to put the projects into practice. Also, the participants in the summit will be informed about the supporting mechanisms of various R&D corporations.
The R&D project markets aims to create high value added innovative production, capability to produce new products
required by the industry to make export operations sustainable, to develop new cost reduction techniques and to make use of new production technologies.
Qualities of the projects proposed ha ve increased noticeably year after year. For the 2013 summit, More than 10 thousand exporters, industrialists, academicians and researchers will be invited from Turkey and overseas, which is going to be organized on the 4th and 5th of April 2013. R & D Project Awards will be given and also Project Avvards will be given for the topics as follows:
Automotive Textiles,
Construction Textiles
Geo-textiles & industrial textiles
Other textiles {conventional and technical)
Other innovative products
Furthermore, the most successful students of Universities’ Textile Engineering Branches with their Department Chairs will meet with the industrialists during the “Carrier HoursInterviews”. in this regard, not only the students will improve their knovvledge about the developments and changes in the sector, but also will be able to find a chance of employment.
