The director of our university's Nuclear Radiation Detectors Application and Research Center (NÜRDAM), Dr. Yalçın KALKAN, and his team have received support from the TENMAK CERN Projects Support Program for their R&D project titled "Research and Development Studies of New Gas-filled Detectors within the Framework of CERN DRD1 Collaboration," with a budget of 2,923,373 ₺. The project, proposed to the Turkey Atomic Energy Authority (TENMAK), was approved for funding.

With the new administration taking office within NÜRDAM, the Gas Radiation Detectors Research Group was established to fund the group's activities at CERN. This project covers several scientific studies, including the characterization of photo-cathode gases and the examination of evaporation characteristics, as well as the research and development of next-generation gas photon detectors. The project also includes the introduction of our university's "nano-GEM" detector prototype, which was presented by Dr. Yalçın KALKAN at the MPGD2024 scientific event organized by CERN in China, and for which we have submitted a PCT patent application.

The project team includes NÜRDAM researchers Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rıfkı TERZİOĞLU, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Arif KÖSEMEN (Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa), Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sadullah ÖZTÜRK (Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa), Prof. Dr. İlhan TAPAN (Bursa Uludağ University), Prof. Dr. Sena BAYAZİT (Istanbul University Cerrahpaşa), and our graduate student Yelda KANDEĞER, who is registered in the Sensor Technologies Department of the Graduate School of Engineering and Natural Sciences at our university. The project, which will start in January of next year and last for three years, is expected to increase the scope of our university's academic activities with CERN.