- Producing a new product
- Increasing the product quality or standards
- Developing new techniques to reduce costs and increase standards
- Developing new production technologies
- Concept development,
- Technological/technical and economic feasibility study,
- Laboratory (or related) studies in the transition from concept to design,
- Design, design application and design tests,
- Prototype production,
- Establishment of pilot plant,
- Trial production and type tests,
- Activities to solve problems related with product design after sales
Enquiries
Contact Person: Mr. Ahmad Razif Mohamad
Telephone: +60197783517
Email: razif@might.org.my / international@might.org.my
5. Eligibility criteria
- Maximum project duration up to 3 years (36 months); extension beyond this period is not permitted.
- It is prerequisite that proposals include the participation of the below as submitting and collaborative institutions:
- At least one Turkish academy partner (including public institutions or organizations/ research institutions/ universities/ training and research hospitals) and Malaysian research institution, public organization or university & At least one Turkish and one Malaysian industrial partners for Academia-Industry Cooperation proposals.
- The proposal must be within one or more of the specific research priority areas described in Section 4.
- 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.
5.1 On Turkish side:
The LPI can be either from academy, public or private sector for Turkish team. For detailed information on the eligibility for Turkish team, please visit https://www.tubitak.gov.tr/sites/default/files/3125/1071_22_surec_dokumani.pdf Turkish team will receive funding through TÜBİTAK 1071 Program. All Turkish researchers who apply for this Program should be registered to TÜBİTAK ARBIS (Researcher Information system) through the following link: https://arbis.tubitak.gov.tr.
5.2 On Malaysian Side:
The LPI can be either from academy, public or private sector for Malaysian team. Private sector from Malaysia must be a majority Malaysian owned business of any size that is registered with the Companies Commission of Malaysia - https://www.ssm.com.my/.
- The Sending Party will cover all related costs connected with travel, accommodation and daily allowances according to their own regulations and allowances.
- The total duration of international visits in one direction should not exceed 60 days per year both Turkish and Malaysian research team of the each supported joint project.
- TÜBİTAK-funded costs of each grant shall be issued and managed by TÜBİTAK in accordance with the rules of TÜBİTAK 1071 Program. TÜBİTAK-funded costs of each grant will be issued and managed by TÜBİTAK according to its funding guidelines and procedures (For detailed information please visit; https://www.tubitak.gov.tr/sites/default/files/3125/1071_22_surec_dokumani.pdf)
- TÜBİTAK funds up to 2.500.000 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 1.250.000 Turkish Liras (excl. overhead and Project Incentive Premium -PIP) of funding per proposal in total.
- Turkish small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can receive 75% of the approved budget; Turkish large-scale enterprises can receive 60% of the approved budget. Higher education institutions, their institutes, public R&D centers can receive %100 of the approved budget. Requested funding from TÜBİTAK is obtained by multiplying the project budget with the support rate. In projects involving more than one executive institution, requested funding from TÜBİTAK is the sum of the amounts obtained by multiplying the project budget of each executive institution with the support rate.
- Malaysian small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) can receive 75% of the approved budget; Malaysian large-scale enterprises can receive 60% of the approved budget. Higher education institutions, their institutes, public R&D centers can receive 100% of the approved budget.
- The Malaysian team from private sector, academy, or public sector, which is eligible for funding, can receive up to USD 150,000 of funding per proposal in total.
Category | Type | Percentage Limits | Notes |
Human Resource costs | Staff costs for personnel working directly on the grant-funded project. | Limited to 30% of grant awarded | This includes on-costs such as superannuation and national insurance payments. |
Operational Costs | Travel (economy class) and subsistence costs. | limited to 20% of the grant | Only covers travel to the partner country (limited to 20% of the grant). |
Visa fees, vaccinations and medical insurance for travel essential to collaboration. | Only covers travel to the partner country | ||
Costs of meetings, training events, seminars and conferences integral to the collaboration. | This can include short-term room hire, hire of audio-visual equipment (projectors, etc.) and stationery supplies (flip charts, etc.), refreshments. | ||
Consumables.
| Limited to 40% of grant awarded | Permission must be obtained from MIGHT before the purchase of equipment. Criteria are normally: 1. Equipment is essential to delivery of the project and cannot be expected to be provided by institutions. 2. Equipment will be used in the partner country and will remain there on project completion. | |
Specialist software licences essential to the collaboration. |
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Communication costs | Access fees to facilities or library services. | Limited to 10% of grant awarded | This includes web page development by external providers, if appropriate. Virtual delivery costs, which may include but not limited to cost of facilitators and technicians who are recruited to manage the virtual platform, translators and/or digital tools to provide easier access for people with disabilities. We encourage open access publishing, and publication-related costs such as author payment charges (APCs) can be included. MIGHT must be notified prior to publication and reserves the right to approve APCs or other publication costs before they are incurred. |
Use of telecommunications such as video / audio / web conferencing. |
- Project proposals must be submitted to both TÜBİTAK and MIGHT in parallel.
- The partner organisations should come to an agreement with each other using their own means of communication and jointly develop and complete their project proposals before submitting them to TÜBİTAK and MIGHT. TÜBİTAK and MIGHT do not match the collaborating partners.
- Project proposals must provide detailed information on the objectives and justification of the planned joint research work, the methodology to be followed, the composition of each research team, and the intended time schedule.
- Because projects are bilateral, they must demonstrate equivalence in effort from the Malaysian and Turkey partners. The project must have one common work plan with both the Malaysia and Turkiye partners having main roles and responsibilities.
- The size of the grant may vary depending on the needs of each project and must be fully justified. Applicants need to ensure that supported elements of the proposal abide by all regulations for both funding agencies.
- Turkish partners will make their joint online application via TÜBİTAK’s online application system: http://uidb-pbs.tubitak.gov.tr
- Turkish partners will use e-signature for their applications. Detailed information can be achieved via
- http://www.tubitak.gov.tr/sites/default/files/281/ardeb_e-imza_yardim_dokumani.pdf.
- Submission of proposals by fax or e-mail will not be accepted.
- Scientific/Technological Excellence
- Methodology
- Project Management
- Importance of International Collaboration
- Impact
9.0 Research Ethics and Regulatory Requirements
For Turkish Side
TÜBİTAK funds up to 2,500,000 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 1,250,000 Turkish Liras (excl. overheads and Project Incentive Premium (PIP)) of funding per proposal in total.
For Malaysian Side
| On Turkish side: | On Malaysian side: |
Contact person | Güliz SÜTÇÜ, Phd.
Directorate for International Cooperation TÜBİTAK | Mr. Ahmad Razif Mohamad
President & CEO’s office MIGHT |
Address | Tunus Caddesi Turkey | Malaysian Industry-Government Group for High Technology (MIGHT)
MIGHT Partnership Hub. Jalan Impact Cyberjaya, Selangor 63000 Malaysia
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Telephone | +90 312 298 1881 | +60197783517 |
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3.3 Milestones, Success Criteria and Risk Analysis (use template provided).
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4.1.1 Provide and compile the principal investigators' CVs as zipped files, emphasising their research background and including a list of their top five recent publications.
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4.2 Added value of the collaboration
- How the partners complement one another in terms of necessary expertise, technology and other resources? Describe the added value of the consortium as a whole (including complementarity, balance).
- Please explain the necessity and importance of implementing the project with international collaboration.
- If the technology transfer between the partners is foreseen, please explain how it will be accomplished.
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- For projects aiming new product development, please specify the sufficiency of relevant partners’ infrastructure for new product development and design.
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4.4 Management of Intellectual Property
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- Please state the program of dissemination and exploitation activities (seminar organization, congress presentations, public sector oriented conferences, business plan and others, etc.), excluding specialized publications, planned during the project development. Please clearly explain where and when these activities will be performed.
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Section 6: Ethical issues
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6. Describe any potential ethical issue that may arise and your strategies to reduce it.
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7. Please provide references. Each reference must include the names of all authors, article/journal/book title, volume number, page numbers and year of publication. If the document is available electronically, the website address should also be shared.
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