Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey

Funding details

Call : Call for transnational, collaborative, inter-/transdisciplinary research projects on ICT-enabled agri-food systems

Country specific: Funding is restricted to organisations from Turkey

Funding: €750,000

Conditions full:

Eligibility criteria:

The budget requested from TUBITAK by the Turkish partners involved in the same project can be maximum 1.500.000 TL excluding Project Incentive Bonus (PTI) and overhead costs. For each Turkish partner in the project team, budget limitations below should be used;

  • The maximum funding per project for Turkish partners from Universities (public and private), research institutes, and public institutions is 720.000 TL. This amount excludes Project Incentive Bonus (PTI) and overhead costs.
  • The maximum funding per project for Turkish partners from private corporations is 1.000.000 TL for Turkish partners. This amount excludes overhead costs.

According to Article 20.6 of the Annotated Model grant Agreement (http://www.iprhelpdesk.eu/news/horizon-2020-updated-annotated-model-grant-agreement-available ), the budget applied for must be stated in Euro and the conversion rules as stated in article 20.6 of the Annotated Model Grant Agreement should be applied.

 

Percentage of Funding:

Universities (public and private), research institutes and public institutions: %100 of budget of the project will be funded by TUBITAK.

Large-size Enterprises: %60 of budget of the project will be funded by TUBITAK.

Small and Medium-size Enterprises: %75 of budget of the project will be funded by TUBITAK.

 

Eligibility of Project Team:

Principal Investigator*, Researchers and Advisors:

  • University personnel should have a PhD degree,
  • Those working in a public institution or a private corporation should have an undergraduate diploma,
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  • The Principal Investigator (PI) of Turkish team should be the permanent staff of the organization making the project proposal,
  • The PI and researchers (Co-PI) should reside and work in Turkey (Foreign nationals can be PI/researcher in the projects if they are working in an organization in Turkey),
  • A researcher should have a contribution of at least 10% of the project workload,
  • An advisor is allowed if the project requires special expertise on a specific subject. The number of advisors in a project is limited to the number of specific subjects in the project. The role of advisor in the projects should be explained in detail in the project proposal

   For detailed information, please look at national call announcement.

*University presidents and vice presidents, surgeon generals, vice surgeon generals, hospital presidents, institution/company presidents, and institution/company vice presidents are not allowed to be PI.

Eligible Costs: Eligible types of funding under this programme are limited to personnel costs, travel and subsistence, equipment that would be used for R&D purposes, consumables and subcontracting/services need for R&D work. Projects intended to build infrastructure cannot be supported.

National Application: Project coordinator of consortium must send English application form to call secretariat via online application tool. At the same time, project coordinator of Turkish team in the consortium must apply 1st stage via project application system of TUBITAK by using Turkish application form available on project application system of TUBITAK (uidb-pbs.tubitak.gov.tr). All Turkish partners in the same international project should submit one application form to national application system.

If the Turkish team is invited for the 2nd stage, same procedure is to be followed by project coordinator of the Turkish team.

More details in the national/regional call announcement:

https://www.tubitak.gov.tr/sites/default/files/3125/ict_agri_food_1071_ar-ge_ve_yenilik_projeleri_surec_dokumani.pdf

http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/tr

Contact person(s):
MELTEM SOYDAN KARABACAK