Nurselin Sakarya Demircan is a graduate of the Department of Chemical Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering, Gazi University, and the Faculty of Business Administration at Anadolu University. Having begun her professional career in the private sector as a project and R&D engineer, Demircan has held various roles in the fields of R&D, production, process development, quality management and production planning.

During the early stages of her career, whilst working as a project and R&D engineer in the private sector, Demircan carried out work in the fields of R&D projects, biogas production, process development and quality management.

Between 2015 and 2022, Demircan worked in the fields of production engineering and production planning at the Mechanical and Chemical Industries Corporation (MKE), gaining experience in the improvement of production processes, process management and workshop management.

Since 2022, Demircan has been assigned to the Programming Section of the Directorate General for European Union Investments at the Ministry of Environment, Urbanisation and Climate Change, where he has undertaken responsibilities including the implementation of visibility and communication activities for projects funded by the European Union, reviewing and approving communication plans, coordinating efforts to enhance project visibility, and managing the Directorate’s website and social media accounts.

Since 16 February 2026, he has been serving as Acting Head of the Programming Section within the Directorate General for Project Preparation and Monitoring.

 

The duties of the Programming Unit are as follows:

• Preparing the Operational Programme, Multi-Annual Programme and Annual Programme in the field of Environment and Climate Change within the framework of financial relations with the European Union, organizing information campaigns for the promotion of the programme, and making changes and/or corrections to the programme where required;
• Preparing the Strategy Response Paper in coordination with all relevant stakeholders and updating it annually;
• Issuing project calls, receiving project requests and conducting their pre-assessment;
• Conducting project prioritisation studies in cooperation with end-beneficiaries and relevant institutions and organizations and determining project selection criteria within this framework;
• Filing the applications of the prepared documents of all prioritised projects and actions with the European Commission;
• Preparing the Communication Action Plan;
• Conducting all visibility and communication activities within the scope of the programmes;
• Performing financial planning at the programme level for EU funds, making budget and co-financing arrangements, carrying out revisions to the Financing Agreements;
• Managing, coordinating and updating the website of the IPA Units; and
• Conducting other duties assigned by the Department Head.