Scope of Support

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The BiGG + Mentor Interface Call was opened with the aim of supporting activities for the establishment and implementation of mentoring mechanisms to increase business development and innovation capacities of SMEs.

The aim of this call is to increase the competitive power of domestic and foreign markets by introducing innovative products of SMEs benefiting from TÜBİTAK R&D and innovation supports with a qualified mentoring mechanism. SMEs receiving mentoring services are expected to improve in the following areas:
*Increase in turnover
*Increase in current market share
*Entry into new markets
*Overseas sales or increase in current overseas sales.

Mentoring service is expected to have two effects on SMEs:
*Increase in the level of commercial maturity
*Increased R&D and innovation capacity

Project Budget: The project budget upper limit is 2.500.000 (two million and five hundred thousand) TL.
Support Type and Rate: 100% grant support will be provided.

Supported Expense Items:

1. Personnel expenses
2. Service purchases
3. General expenses

In the 2022 call, mentorship activities about sustainability will be also supported. The maximum length of mentorship services that can be provided for sustainability cannot exceed the 10% of maximum hours of mentorship taken - which is calculated based on the R&D and Innovation Capacity and Maturation Level of an SME. In addition, varying amounts of awards are identified for the Mentor Interface Organizations based on the mentee SMEs’ applications for European Innovation Council’s Accelerator Programme

Pre-registrations for the call took place between 01.04.2022-01.06.2022 

Applications can be submitted to TÜBİTAK between 18.05.2022-18.07.2022

As of 1st of October 2022, accepted interface organizations will start their mentorship activities.