The online kick-off meeting of the Erasmus+ KA220 HED Green Chemistry Applications in Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Project, which is being carried out by the International Relations Application Research Center of our University, was held on February 27, 2023.

Erasmus+ Institution Coordinator Dr. Lecturer Hakan Gültekin, Medical Aromatic Plants Specialization Coordinator Assoc. Prof. Dr. Mustafa Kemal Gümüş and Erasmus+ Institution Coordinator Lecturer Hakan Taşkaya and representatives from project stakeholder institutions attended the meeting.

In the statement made by the project management, the following information was given about the project:

"Erasmus+ KA220 HED Green Chemistry Applications Project aims to create products such as capsules and ointments by processing two medicinal and aromatic plants growing in the Artvin region within the scope of green chemistry and bringing them to the health sector, thus aiming a regional development. The project aims to raise awareness by disseminating the studies to be carried out for this purpose through workshops, trainings, international symposiums and articles. It will also contribute to the dissemination of such studies by setting an example for the studies to be carried out in the field of medicinal and aromatic plants. Laboratory studies of the project have started at the Science-Technology Application and Research Center of our University.

Medicinal and aromatic plants will be studied in our project;

Ruscus colchicus: Zermek, Hypericum androseamum L. :  Kamaniça 

The stakeholders of our project are our partners who have achieved significant success in their fields and with whom we have been in cooperation for years.

Project Partners: Vysoka Skola Chemıcko-Technologıcka V Praze (Czech Republic), Universitatea Dunarea De Jos Dın Galatı (Romania), Universita Degli Studi Di Torino (Italy), State Scientific Institution "Institute for Single Crystals" of NAS of Ukraine (Ukraine), Agricultural University Of Georgia (Georgia)"