ANKARA — Researchers from Turkey are preparing for a meet in Istanbul on Wednesday where they will hope to take their ideas and innovations from lab to market, with the help of the EU.The two-day Horizon 2020 meeting, which with nearly 80 billion of funding is the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever, will include guests such as Turkey's Science, Industry and Technology Minister Fikri Işık and Robert-Jan Smits, who heads the European Commission's innovation unit.An association agreement between Turkey and the EU will be signed on the first day of the conference. Turkish researchers will be able to look into European Research Council's frontier research and funding opportunities and learn from workshops on success stories from different countries.According to the European Commission, Horizon 2020 is the financial instrument for implementing the Innovation Union, a Europe 2020 initiative aimed at securing Europe's global competitiveness in science.It also aims to remove barriers to innovation and make it easier for the public and private sectors to work together in delivering innovative projects.