Within the framework of the QUEST Project, implemented under the Interreg NEXT Black Sea Basin Programme, the “1st Online University Cluster Workshop” was successfully held.

The workshop, organized as part of the QUEST Project in which our Center is a project partner, brought together representatives from higher education and research institutions from Türkiye, Bulgaria, and Greece.

Participating institutions:

• Karadeniz Technical University (Türkiye)
• Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University (Türkiye)
• Samsun University (Türkiye)
• Sinop University (Türkiye)
• International Hellenic University (Greece)
• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece)
• Technical University of Varna (Bulgaria)

The main objective of the workshop was to evaluate universities’ capacities to access national and international funding opportunities, identify existing needs, and address common challenges encountered in project development processes.

During the meeting, participants shared their experiences, expressed their capacity-building needs, and provided suggestions for training, mentoring, and collaboration activities to be carried out within the scope of the project.