Joint Call 2024

TÜBİTAK-NCRD Joint Call for Proposals 2024
 
Objective:
Based on the Protocol on Scientific and Technological Cooperation between The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and The Jordanian National Center for Research and Development (NCRD) signed in 2023, this call is launched to enhance cooperative activities between two countries via research projects on the topics of this call. A research project should focus on producing new knowledge; making new scientific interpretations or solving technological problems based on scientific principles.
 
Thematic Fields:
Research projects are supported within the scope of this call. Successful projects prepared in the fields below will be supported within the scope of the program. Proposals submitted in other fields will not be accepted.

1-Health Security

  • Epidemiology
  • Artificial Intelligence in Health

 2- Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)

  • Artificial Intellegence

 3- Food Security

  • Sustainable Agriculture
  • Water scarcity
  • Biodiversity

 Eligibility criteria

  • Maximum project duration is 2 years (24 months).
  • It is a prerequisite that proposals include the participation of the below as submitting and collaborative institutions:
    • Turkish side: Applications can be submitted either by universities, public institutions or organizations, research institutions, training and research hospitals OR by Turkish industry/private sector.
    • Jordanian side: public and private universities and research institutions.
  • The proposal must be within the scope of fields described in Section 2.
  • Turkish and Jordan-based teams must each be led by a Principal Investigator (PI).
  • Turkish and Jordanian partners shall prepare a joint scientific project which must be submitted to the respective funding agencies by each national scientific coordinator.
  • All applicants must adhere to national eligibility rules for research proposals and any queries concerning eligibility should be addressed to the contact persons of the respective funding agencies.

Applications involving any eligible applicants (from Jordan or Türkiye) will result in the rejection of the whole application.

  • The maximum number of projects to be supported as a result of the evaluation is 3.
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  • Project proposal submission 
  • Project proposals must be submitted to both partner organisations on time.
  • The partners should jointly develop and complete their project proposals before submitting it to TÜBİTAK and NCRD.
  • TÜBİTAK and NCRD do not match 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 Jordanian and Turkish partners. The project must have a work plan with contribution of the Jordanian and Turkish partners having main roles and responsibilities, equating to the equivalent time and costs accrued in both countries.
  • 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.

Submission 

Jordanian Researchers must fill the application using the forms below.
The application should be stamped and signed by the legal representative of the organization submitting the proposal.
Supporting documents are requested to be attached to the proposal as mentioned in the Form.
The proposals are sent in hard copy to NCRD offices at  Jubiha, Near the Ministry of Higher Education,and Scanned copies of the documents should be sent before the call deadline the email : info@ncrd.gov.jo
 

Evaluation and SelectionProjects are evaluated by TÜBİTAK and NCRD independently by their own evaluation procedures. Only the proposals which are accepted by two sides will be funded.
 
The proposals will be reviewed according to a certain set of evaluation criteria.
 
Evaluation criteria:

  • Scientific/Technological Excellence
  • Methodology
  • Project Management(Team composition, infrastructure and budget adequacy with Project activities)
  • Importance of International Collaboration
  • Impact

 
Info for the Turkish Side: Awarded proposals will go through a pre-award stage, which starts after the announcement of results, and continues for approximately eight weeks. During pre-award period, the awarded institution will be notified about the requirements (possible budget reduction, budget details, timeline changes, etc.).
Info for the Jordanian Side: ..
Awarded proposals will go through a pre-award stage, which starts after the announcement of results, and continues for approximately eight weeks. During pre-award period, the awarded institution will be notified about the requirements (possible budget reduction, budget details, timeline changes, etc.).
 
Evaluation of the progress and final reports
 

  • For Turkish team, The Principal Investigator of each project has to prepare financial and scientific/technical progress reports at determined dates in the project contract to be submitted to TÜBİTAK.
  • For Jordanian team, The Principal Investigator of each project has to prepare financial and scientific/technical progress reports at determined dates in the project contract to be submitted to NCRD.

 
 
 More information is also found in the call text file
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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