The winners of the 7th eTR Awards this year, which was organized by Turkish Industrialists’ 'and Businessmen's Association (TUSIAD) and Turkish Informatics Foundation (TBV) and where Turkcell was the Main Sponsor, has been announced. President Abdullah Gul presented the awards to the winners in the ceremony at the Cankaya Mansion on 13th January of 2010. Leyla Arsan, the CEO of TAGES, participated in eTR Award Ceremony and shared her opinions on the eTR Awards and this year’s winning projects. 01-02-2010
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Tages is a member of NEM
The latest ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) Call 2010 was launched on 21st of January 2010. The programme will facilitate the development of lead markets for innovative ICT-based solutions notably in areas of public interest and will open a wide range of new business opportunities in particular for innovative SMEs. Deadline of the 2010 call is 1st of June 2010. 
January edition of Bilgi Cagi Magazine takes the issue of troubles that disabled are experiencing, insufficiency of R&D and technology solutions against these troubles, high price of existing technology for developing living standards of disabled since the technology is imported. The magazine has noted that R&D and technology studies to “remove the obstacles” in front of disabled are not enough in Turkey because of the market which does not develop. 
Bahcesehir University has developed a new graduate programme on European Union Relations by renewing the content of the previous programme. Leyla Arsan, the CEO of TAGES, will give lectures on Framework of Brussels Based Programs under this MA programme which will start on February of 2010. 
November edition of Bilgi Cagi Magazine looks over the relationship between education and technology. The magazine takes the issue of the vicious cycle and the strategies which can not be applied on the intersection fields of education and technology. According to the experts, we are neither learning technology nor using technology to learn. So the priority has to be changing our approach to the technology as a society. 
TAGES is a partner of the project called Development the Competences of Key Persons for better Integration and Employability of Disadvantaged Groups on the European Labour Market (DC-Key-Train) Project which is supported by the European Union under Leonardo da Vinci Programme. The project which aims to facilitate the development of innovative training that will be available to SMEs and employment-support institutions in the partner countries started on August 2009 and kick-off meeting of the project was performed on the 16th-18th of November 2009 in London. 
