The Customer Organization (SME or Large Scale) and Technology Provider Institution/Organization (at least one SME and at least one university research laboratory/center or public research center/institute) can jointly apply to the call.
The duration of the project will be a maximum of 24 months in total.
The expenses of only labor force of the Customer Organization will be supported. The upper limit of this support will not exceed 10 man-months. 60% of the project budget included in the support is covered by TÜBİTAK and the remaining 40% by the customer.
If the Customer Organization is a large-scale; The Customer Organization will pay 20% of the periodical project expenses to the Technology Provider Organization, and TÜBİTAK will give 60% of the "accepted expenditure amount" to the Technology Provider Organization as a grant after evaluating the expenses.
If the Customer Organization is a SME-scale; The Customer Organization will pay 10% of the periodical project expenses to the Technology Provider Organization, and TÜBİTAK will give 70% of the "accepted expenditure amount" to the Technology Provider Organization as a grant after evaluating the expenses.
The support rate for university research laboratory/center or public research center/institute is 100%. If the customer organization is a large-scale, 20% of the “accepted expenditure amount”; If the customer organization is SME-scale, it will cover 10% of the “accepted expenditure amount”. TÜBİTAK will give the rest as a grant.
Supported costs are: personnel costs, travel costs, tools, equipment, software and technical documents costs, R&D service expenses, consultancy or other services costs, materials and consumables costs.