TÜBİTAK – MSE MIGHT Grand Challenge (Turkey and Malaysia)

The funding is intended to enable foundations to be laid for lasting R&D innovation partnerships.

Scope

• Within the framework of this call, the projects with the following objectives will be supported:
  • Producing a new product
  • Increasing the product quality or standards
  • Developing new techniques to reduce costs and increase standards
  • Developing new production technologies

Thematic Areas

• Core and Generative Artificial Intelligence: AI is a transformative force in the global context, offering significant potential for economic growth, innovation, and social progress. Core AI primarily focuses on tasks requiring structured outputs and decision-making based on existing data.
• Hydrogen Energy and Energy Storage: This R&D project aims to advance hydrogen energy technologies and innovative energy storage solutions.
• Sustainable Agriculture: This R&D project focuses on advancing sustainable agriculture practices to enhance food security, promote environmental stewardship, and address climate change.
• Advanced Materials for Aerospace, IoT in Space Technologies, and Robotics in Space Technologies: Space technologies play an increasingly important role in addressing global challenges and advancing scientific, economic, and geopolitical objectives.

Funding Information

• TÜBİTAK funds up to 5.000.000 Turkish Liras (excl. overhead and Project Incentive Premium (PIP) approximately) per project.
• As a rule, Turkish academia/public institution partners that are eligible for funding can receive up to 3.000.000 Turkish Liras (excl. overhead and Project Incentive Premium – PIP) of funding per proposal in total.
• MIGHT funds up to MYR 685,000.00 per project.
• Duration: Maximum project duration up to 3 years (36 months); extension beyond this period is not permitted.

Eligibility Criteria

• The proposal must be within one or more of the specific research priority areas described.
• Turkish and Malaysian-based teams must each be led by a Lead Principal Investigator (LPI).
• Each proposal should have a Project Coordinator who will be selected from the LPIs of the proposal and this person is responsible for coordinating the whole consortium:
  • For Turkish Team: The Turkish consortium has to consist of at least one Turkish academy partner (including public institutions or organizations/ research institutions/universities/training and research hospitals) and one Turkish commercial company.
  • For Malaysian Team: The Malaysian consortium has to consist of at least one Malaysian company/SME, based in Malaysia and one research institute, public organization or university.

Evaluation Criteria

• The proposals will be reviewed according to a certain set of evaluation criteria:
  • Scientific/Technological Excellence
  • Methodology
  • Project Management
  • Importance of International Collaboration
  • Impact

For more information, visit Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey.