UR-GE (Developing International Competitiveness) Support is a clustering-based support program for exporting firms in the same sector to increase their export potential by acting together. Activities such as training, consultancy, marketing, overseas promotion, and finding customers are collectively supported.
This support is aimed at the Cooperating Organizations that run the project and the member firms that participate in it:
The program finances all the strategic steps required for a cluster to expand into international markets:
| Supported Activity | Scope and Examples | |
|---|---|---|
| 🧠 | Training and Consultancy | Joint foreign trade, marketing, and management trainings/consultancies on subjects identified by the "Needs Analysis" conducted at the beginning of the project. |
| ✈️ | Overseas Marketing Activities | Joint overseas fair participations as a cluster, potential customer visits, and organization of sectoral trade missions. |
| 🛬 | Buyer Mission Organizations | Bringing potential buyers from target markets to Turkey and enabling them to have B2B meetings with cluster member firms. |
| 🌐 | Joint Promotional Activities | Preparation of a joint website for the cluster's promotion, printing of catalogs and brochures, digital promotion activities. |
| 🤝 | Matchmaking and Employment | B2B matchmaking platforms for finding overseas customers and salaries of personnel employed for project management. |
UR-GE projects are prepared by an Exporters' Association or another Cooperating Organization and submitted for Ministry approval.
After the project is approved, the export potential, deficiencies, and needs of all firms in the cluster are determined through a professional analysis.
Based on the results of the needs analysis, activities such as training, consultancy, overseas marketing, and buyer missions are planned and implemented.
All expenditures are made by the Cooperating Organization, and support is requested by submitting documents such as invoices, contracts, and activity reports to the Ministry via DYS.