KILIC DENIZ URUNLERI URETIMI IHRACAT ITHALAT VE TICARET AS

Their core work

Kilic Deniz Urunleri is a Turkish seafood production, export, import and trade company based in Bodrum, on the Aegean coast — a region with deep commercial fishing traditions. Their real-world business is the harvesting, processing, and trading of marine products, which positions them as a practicing industry voice in European fisheries and aquaculture research. In both H2020 projects they joined as an industry partner, contributing operational knowledge of how fisheries businesses respond to regulatory frameworks and economic pressures. This is not a research organization — it is a commercial seafood company whose value to research consortia lies in grounding policy and climate studies in real market and operational realities.

What they specialise in

How they've shifted over time

Their first H2020 engagement (SUCCESS, 2015) was rooted in the economics of regulation: how fisheries policies and compliance requirements affect the competitive position of seafood businesses. By their second project (CERES, 2016), the focus broadened outward to climate — how changing ocean and freshwater conditions reshape the entire aquatic food economy. Both marine and inland fisheries appear in CERES, suggesting a wider scope than the coastal/marine frame of their earlier work. The trajectory is from regulatory compliance concerns toward longer-horizon climate resilience, reflecting a maturing awareness of the structural threats facing the industry.

KLC is moving from questions of how regulations affect today's fisheries business toward how climate change will reshape the entire aquatic food system — a signal that future collaboration opportunities lie in resilience planning, blue economy strategy, and sustainable aquaculture under environmental stress.

How they like to work

KLC has never led an H2020 project, joining both as a participant — consistent with the role of an industry practitioner lending operational credibility to policy and climate research led by academic or institutional partners. Their two projects placed them inside large, multi-country consortia (45 unique partners across 17 countries), suggesting they are comfortable in complex international collaborations rather than small bilateral partnerships. For a future partner, this means KLC is unlikely to drive a consortium but can add genuine industry grounding to Blue Growth or food-system projects seeking non-academic voices.

KLC has built contact with 45 distinct partner organizations across 17 countries through just two projects — an unusually broad network relative to their project count, reflecting the large consortium structures typical of RIA fisheries research. Their geographic spread almost certainly includes major EU fishing nations (Spain, Norway, Greece, France, Italy) alongside their home base in Turkey.

What sets them apart

KLC is a rare case of a non-EU commercial fisheries operator embedded in European research consortia — a Turkish Aegean seafood company with direct access to both Mediterranean fishing grounds and EU policy networks. For consortium builders, this means KLC can provide a non-EU industry perspective that satisfies geographic diversity requirements while still offering authentic operational knowledge of marine product markets. Their commercial orientation (export/import trade) distinguishes them from aquaculture institutes or fishing cooperatives — they see the supply chain from catch to international sale.

Highlights from their portfolio

• CERES
  The larger-funded project (EUR 45,000) and the longer-running one (2016-2020), addressing climate change across both marine and inland aquatic systems — the broadest scope in KLC's portfolio.
• SUCCESS
  KLC's first H2020 engagement, focused on the economic sustainability and competitiveness of the European seafood sector — directly aligned with their core trade business.