2247-A National Leader Researchers Program

The goal of the 2247-A National Leader Researchers Program is to support local scientists who will bring new perspectives to the researchers with pioneering and groundbreaking studies and have the potential to make an important discovery and / or invention.

Application Conditions:

  • Applicants are obliged to be working in Turkey as of the first day of the application
  • Applicant must have worked as a faculty member in a university or carried out an independent academic research for at least 4 years

In addition, at least 2 of the following items must be provided:

  • Provided that the number of publications is at least 10; at least 50% of all publications are included in journals in the 25% highest cited / Q1
  • Scopus Field Weighted Citation Impact (FWCI) or WoS Category Normalized Citation Impact (CNCI) value is greater than 1
  • Having completed European Research Council (ERC) project or Horizon 2020 projects as a coordinator
  • Having received TÜBİTAK Science or TÜBİTAK Special or TÜBA Academy Awards 

The Scope of the Fellowship: 

  • Research support (1 Million TL)
  • Project Incentive Bonus (PTI)(Upper limit 5,000 TL / month)
  • Scholarship (PhD student: Full/ Partial 4.500/ 800 TL/ month, Post-doc: 6.000 TL/ month)
  • Overhead 

Duration: Maximum 36 months 

Application Deadline: June 2021 (Exact date has not been published yet.)

Click here for detailed information.