Green Growth

We are building a sustainable future to spread clean energy and clean technologies.

Sustainability is of vital importance for İzmir, where the effects of global climate change are clearly observed. For this reason, we, as the Izmir Development Agency, support strategies to prevent the negative effects of climate change on water resources, natural riches and agricultural production in the region, by promoting the use of renewable energy and developing applications that will increase resource efficiency in production.

With the green growth approach aimed at environment oriented sustainable economic development, we aim to convey the support and knowledge required to producers and industrialists to use the regional resources in an environmentally conscious manner. In order to achieve green transformation in our region, we aim to strengthen the investment environment and competitiveness by supporting İzmir’s high potential in agriculture and industrial production, clean energy and clean technologies.

Green Transformation and Blue Opportunities Perspective has been prepared to guide the development of İzmir in line with green and blue growth approaches and to support this transition. The perspective document aims to reveal the magnitude of existing risks and how they can be mitigated with the transition to green and blue growth, the economic, environmental and social benefits that will occur with various intervention scenarios, how opportunities will be created around sustainable technologies and industries, and the benefits these opportunities offer.

Green Transformation and Blue Opportunities Perspective is a guide study with a unique methodology and beyond a classic strategy document, it offers a horizon for decision makers and actors regarding the transformation process.

Study; It has a three-layered architecture: macro dimension, sectoral dimension and intervention/action dimension. The scope of the study, which was designed for a period of ten years;

• Identification of priority sectors and spatial focuses in three areas, “waste, water and energy”,
• Identification of transformation interventions to ensure green and blue transformation in determined foci,
• It is to reveal the benefits and costs that will arise in the event of transformation interventions.

PROVIDED SUPPORTS

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THE CLEAN ENERGY FOCUSED PROJECT

87M TL

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

INDUSTRIAL SYMBIOSIS PROJECT IN IZMIR REGION

The main objective of the İzmir Industrial Project, carried out in cooperation with the İzmir Development Agency and UNDP Turkey, is to reveal an industrial symbiosis model that can be applied for the İzmir region and then to disseminate it to the national level.

The project, which was designed as an operational program to cover the 2021-2024 period; reducing the amount of industrial waste by using innovative, environmentally friendly, sustainable industrial symbiosis connections; aims to improve human and environmental health, and to diversify supply chain relations in the industry sector.

Protect Goals

• Creating a digital-based governance platform that will bring businesses together to create industrial symbiosis relationships in Izmir.
• Building technical and managerial capacity on industrial symbiosis between businesses.
• Creating and implementing exemplary industrial symbiosis collaborations.
• Establishing a center that will serve businesses in the fields of industrial symbiosis, resource efficiency and digital transformation.
• Establishing an example of a national model of industrial symbiosis.

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TÜBİTAK DOCTORAL THESIS SUPPORT PROGRAMME

Within the scope of the Industrial Symbiosis in İzmir Region Project, which is being carried out by İzmir Development Agency (IZKA) and United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Turkey, an institutional cooperation agreement has been made with the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey (TÜBİTAK) to support Research and Development (R&D) studies. Within the scope of the project, it is aimed to support doctoral theses to be written in the field of Industrial Symbiosis. Within this framework, the following doctoral theses were supported.

• Utilisation of Whey in the Production of Bioplastic (Pla) as a Climate Friendly Production Method: With this study, it is aimed to introduce an innovative method that is more economical, environmentally friendly and efficient compared to the existing methods of PLA production from whey to the literature and to reveal an efficient and effective industrial symbiosis model between the dairy industry and the Bioplastics industry in İzmir.
• Industrial Symbiosis in Poultry Processing Industry: Investigation of the Use of Hydrogel Formed by Obtaining Valuable Components from By-Products of a Chicken Processing Plant in İzmir in the Production of a Functional Fruit Beverage: In the light of the outputs to be obtained from this thesis study; it is aimed to produce high value-added products and to develop a symbiotic relationship between the poultry industry and fruit juice industries.
• Production of Aerogel Containing Alpha-Glycosidase and Alpha-Amylase Enzyme Inhibitors from Olive Pomace with Symbiotic Approach and Investigation of the Effect of Reducing Glycaemic Index in Foods: In this thesis study, it is aimed to produce aerogels from olive pomace, which is the waste of olive growing sector, and to use this production to reduce the glycaemic index in bakery products/extruded snack products.