Co-Funded Brain Circulation Scheme 2 Call 4 (# of pos: 25)

Living allowance: An amount of €4.500 per month will be paid to recruited researchers. This refers to the basic gross amount, for the benefit of the researcher, to be paid (via the host organizations) to the fellows. The living allowance is a gross contribution to the salary costs of the researcher and is taxable in Turkey.

Mobility allowance: An amount of €550 per month will be paid to recruited researchers. The mobility allowances are flat rate amounts and taxable in Turkey.

Research, Training and Networking costs: An amount of €800 per month will be provided. It will managed by the host organization of the researcher and used to contribute to the expenses related to research activities involved in the researcher’s project such as participation in training activities, conference visits, work visits etc and expenses related to research costs. Fellows must report on the use of this budget in their 6-monthly reports.

Special Needs budget: €400 per month allocated for researchers with special needs who need financial support for their daily work. Provisions are made for maximum 5 fellows.

Funding Breakdown

Amount (per month)

Living allowance

€4.500

Mobility allowance

€550

Research, Training and Networking costs

€800

Special Needs budget (for eligible researchers, it is subject to SC approval)

€400

Co-Circulation fellowship is directed exclusively towards experienced researchers. To be granted a TÜBİTAK Co-Circulation Fellowship and fulfill its experience requirements, an applicant must either have a Ph.D degree or have at least 4 years of full-time equivalent research experience.

In addition, researchers must be non-residing in Turkey for more than 12 months in the 3 years prior to the relevant deadline for submission of proposals.

The applicants, who are currently supported any of TÜBİTAK programs and EU 7th. Framework Program, Marie Curie Actions are not eligible to apply TÜBİTAK Co-Circulation Fellowship.

The selection workflow of CoCirculation2 will include four main steps:

• Eligibility check,
• Remote peer review evaluation and ethics check,
• Selection committee meeting (including consensus) and ethics check,
• The funding decision.

The eligibility check will be carried out by the Call Secretariat via the eBİDEB Portal, on anonymous proposals and according to the criteria. All proposals that are considered ineligible will not proceed to the next phase of the process. Applicants with ineligible proposals and their supervisors will receive an e-mail informing them of the ineligibility of the the proposal, detailing the reasons of ineligibility within two weeks of the call deadline.

In parallel to the remote peer review evaluation, all eligible proposals will be sent to the Ethical Committee (EC). The EC will evaluate which applicants/proposals need to provide an official approval letter from the ethical committee of the host organization.

The Call Secretariat will prepare a proposal for a funding decision, according to the results of the Ranked List and the available number of fellowships (25) for each Call. The formal funding decision is taken by the President of TÜBİTAK. There will also be a reserve list of 8 proposals per call. Applicants on the reserve list may be offered a fellowship when an applicant on the main list withdraws his/her proposal.

The eBİDEB portal will be used for informing the applicants of the outcomes of the evaluation and selection process. Applicants will receive feedback at various points in the selection process. Supervisors and applicants can monitor the steps of the evaluation process through the eBİDEB portal. Applicants will be provided with an Evaluation Summary Report (ESR), which comprises full feedback of the selection committee and the (anonymous) comments.

Applicants who have any objections to the evaluation process may apply the redress procedure, within 1 week after the evaluation results are published. Requests for redress may be made with regard to procedural issues and not with regard to the scientific judgments of the experts.