Terms of Application

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Researchers who will apply to the program must be working in Türkiye as of the first day of the application.

  • As of the date of application, any of the following work experiences must be provided.
  • Early stage researchers under the age of 40*, who received their doctoral degree at most 7 years ago and having 1 to 4 years research experience after doctorate degree.
  • Researchers from the private sector with 4 years of full-time research experience after their bachelor's degree, provided that at least 1 year is in the private sector (maximum 1 year of the completed master's education with thesis and maximum 3 years of the completed doctorate education period are considered within this scope.)

At least 2 of the following a, b, c, d options must be provided:

  1. Provided that the number of publications* of the executive is at least 5, at least 50% of all publications* are included in journals in the 25% / Q1 with the most citations
  2. Scopus Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) or WoS Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) value** of the researcher is greater than 1
  3. Having a completed*** European Research Council (ERC) project or has been a coordinator in the research and innovation action and innovation action (RIA / IA) projects within the scope of Horizon 2020, or having a project within the scope of the Marie Skłodowska Curie Action (MSCA ) (IF, RISE)
  4. Having received TUBITAK Incentive Award or TWAS Incentive Award or TÜBA GEBİP Award 

* One year is added for each birth for female applicants.
** Publications in the type of articles and reviews in internationally indexed journals defined by Scopus or articles and reviews in internationally indexed journals defined by WoS will be considered (Source: Scopus-Scival CiteScore, SNIP, SJR; WoS-InCites)
*** In international indexed journals defined by Scopus, articles and reviews where the author is the first author, last author, responsible author and sole author (Scopus: SciVal) or articles and reviews in which the author is the first author, last author and responsible author in internationally indexed journals defined by WoS (WoS-Incites)
**** Researchers whose projects will be completed by the end of 2023 will also be able to apply for the program.