The Tarsus University Academic Development Program (TAGEP) was organized by the Tarsus University Distance Education Application and Research Center to support academic productivity and contribute to strengthening high-quality publications and academic collaborations. The training program, which was organized for the fields of Engineering Sciences, Health Sciences, and Social Sciences, brought participants together in different sessions.

Conducted with the contributions of Tarsus University academic staff as well as scientists from different higher education institutions, TAGEP addressed current methods, strategic approaches, and applied studies aimed at improving research and publication quality in various disciplines. Researchers and graduate students from universities across Turkey participated in the program, which covered In the field of Engineering Sciences, project design and writing, along with principles for publishing in Q1–Q2 journals; in Health Sciences, strategies for quality publications, communication and language-based research applications, and qualitative data analysis applications; and in the Social Sciences, empirical research methods, panel data analysis, applied econometrics studies, and comprehensive training on data analysis processes in qualitative research were provided.