Projects found suitable in the pre-evaluation process will proceed to the evaluation. External evaluator will be appointed from academia, private sector, public institutions, and non-governmental organizations for the peer review process. Evaluations will be conducted through on-site visits. Additionally, experts may be assigned to assess the environmental and social impact of the projects.
If the following critical determinations are made, the project may be submitted to the relevant Group Executive Board (GEB) with a recommendation for rejection without starting the external evaluation process.
- The project proposal does not comply with the subject and scope of the call.
- The project is not a continuation of a previous R&D study. The company will start this work for the first time within the scope of this project.
- The project is an investment project aimed at creating production infrastructure.
- As of the project application date, there is no project personnel in the project team who has at least a bachelor's degree related to the project subject.
- If employees who have a bachelor's degree in a field different from the project subject present their experience with the project subject in their resumes, the adequacy of their experience will also be taken into account.
- The project proposal has been previously submitted to calls opened by TÜBİTAK and has been rejected. The project has been resubmitted without making changes to the reasons for the previous rejection.
- The information provided in the project proposal is insufficient for the evaluation of the project; a limited amount of information has been presented.
- The R&D activities to be carried out in the project and the presented expense items are not qualitatively and quantitatively aligned; a realistic budget planning has not been made. The majority of budget items consist of unnecessary and excessive requests that do not contribute to the R&D activities.
Following evaluation process, if critical findings are identified, the projects are rejected without scoring in the committee.
There is a threshold value for the projects to go under Executive Board Evaluation which is indicated in Call Text. Projects with scores at or below the threshold are rejected. Projects with scores above the threshold continue the evaluation process.
Project scores are created based on evaluations by both external evaluators and the Group Executive Board for the projects.
Projects that meet the following criteria will be awarded additional points in addition to the evaluators assessment made over 100 points.
- Commercialization performance of TÜBİTAK projects supported in the past (between 5-10 points depending on the evaluation of the group executive board)
- The company has applied for a project to international funds (5 Points)
- The project proposal being the company's first TEYDEB application (5 points).
- Having a joint project application (5 Points)
- Having a project application that is a continuation of the projects supported within the framework of 1702 Patent License calls (5 Points)
- Being in disadvantaged and vulnerable groups (2-15 Points)
The final decision for the projects is made by taking into account the score of the projects and the call budget.