YÖK 2021 Outstanding Achievement Awards

YÖK Outstanding Achievement Awards are given under two main categories, Individual and Corporate, in order to encourage studies, projects, theses and community service activities carried out by scientific research at universities.

Individual Awards:

For Doctoral Dissertation Award of the year, who completed her/his doctoral thesis and graduated from the program at public or private higher education institutions in Turkey on the previous year may apply .  Applications are made together by the doctoral thesis owner and the advisor. In the evaluation, the scientific and innovative aspects of the PhD thesis, besides being original, the economic, social, cultural and other contributions of the thesis results are taken into consideration.

Awarded Areas

  1. Science and Engineering Sciences
  2. Health Sciences
  3. Social and Humanities 

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Corporate Awards:

All public and private institutions of higher education in Turkey can apply for Corporate Awards. Institutions can apply with only one project, study or application for each category.

Award Categories

  1. Community Service Award
  2. International Cooperation Award
  3. University-Industry Cooperation Award
  4. Contribution to Local Development Award

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Application Deadline: May 24, 2021