EuroCC, a project supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 Framework, has started with participation of 33 countries and METU as one of its Turkish partners.

METU/BILTIR-UTEST Product Usability Unit is investigating the effects of remote work conditions caused by COVID-19 pandemic on User Experience (UX) practice, which is an emerging field in Turkey.

The proposal "BRIDGE-BS" submitted as coordinator to the "H2020-BG-2018-2020" call under the lead of Prof. Dr. Barış Salihoğlu and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Yücel has been accepted for funding.

Assoc. Mecit H. Öztop's FunTomP project will be supported within the scope of Horizon 2020.

Prof. Meryem Beklioğlu from the Biological Sciences Department and her team including Prof. Zuhal Akyürek from the Civil Engineering Department and Asst. Prof.Antoine Dolcerocca from the Sociology Department of the Middle East Technical University are part of a consortium running a new Horizon 2020 project, 'PONDERFUL', led by the University of Vic (Spain).

Berkay Özbek, a graduate of the Electrical-Electronics Engineering undergraduate program of our university, a graduate student under the supervision of Prof. Haluk Külah and research assistant at the same department, will be supported within the scope of the TÜBİTAK 1512 Techno-Entrepreneurship Capital Support Program with his project.

The Black Sea Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda (SRIA) Stakeholder Consultation Workshop within the scope of EU H2020 Black Sea CONNECT Project, which is the first multi-partner Horizon2020 consortium coordinated by METU, was held on September 16, 2020.

Assoc. Prof. Cağdaş Devrim Son from the Department of Biological Sciences, Molecular Biology and Genetics Program, leads screening the molecular docking system for potentially effective molecules for the prevention and treatment of COVID-19.

METU will be the coordinator of the H2020-MSCA RISE project of Assoc. Prof. Mecit Halil Öztop from Food Engineering department with the title of SuChAQuality

Assoc. Prof. Koray Kamil Yılmaz has been selected to be a member of the NASA “Global Precipitation Measurement Mission Science Team”, with his project titled “Ground Validation of GPM-Era Precipitation Products over Complex Topography of Turkey and the Mediterranean with a focus on Modeling Hydrologic Extremes”.