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German Turkish Advanced Research Centre

The ITC Bridge between Berlin and Istanbul for Innovation

Application Areas

GT ARC focuses on the research and development of enabling ICT platforms, mechanisms, and tools for contemporary solutions that address the grand challenges and needs of our society, such as mobility, energy, and health. Based on this goal, GT ARC focuses on following basic research topics:

Smart cities
Mobility & Transport
Energy
Health

Research Areas

Information and Communication Technologies are increasingly used in our society for solving problems and challenges in domains ranging from energy, health and security to transport and telecommunications. As a result of this trend, new technologies emerge with very short innovation cycles, and face with several critical limitations such as scalability, performance, efficiency, reliability, availability and usability. These diverse and complex problems require cutting-edge multi-disciplinary research supported by strong engineering skills.

German-Turkish Advanced Research Centre for ICT – An Affiliated Institute of TU Berlin

International cooperation is essential for the formation of future projects because looking beyond the obvious and realizing different social and cultural experiences are key factors for cracking technical questions concerning the future city.

No matter if it is Berlin, Frankfurt, Paris, Istanbul, Ankara, New York or Kairo, big cities worldwide have similar challenges for the future.

GT-ARC’s mission is to take a leading role in creating ICT-based innovation through German-Turkish cooperation by (i) bringing the bright minds of the two countries together to design and develop core technologies for future innovative solutions, (ii) providing a framework for joint projects, staff mobility, idea exchange, and value creation among relevant stakeholders.

GT ARC is supported by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research, and the Turkish Ministry of Transport, Maritime Affairs and Communications.