Institutional Research Fund (TEDU-IRF) Call for Proposals

Deadline: April 21^st, 2021 

TEDU - IRF is one of the research endorsements provided by TED University to support and enhance research at TEDU. TEDU-IRF also acts as a “Seed Fund” for faculty members. By making an application to TEDU-IRF, researchers pledge that no double-funding^[1] exists for the budget items proposed in the application.

Criteria for Proposals: 
For the scientific excellence and impact, the project proposals are expected to; 

• support institutional strategy, principles, and research priorities of TEDU
• make a significant contribution to science and society 
• possess strong, authentic and novel scientific quality
•  have a potential to advance the state-of-the-art and generate new intellectual property 

For the quality and efficiency of the implementation; the project proposals are expected to; 

• have sufficient and relevant resources to develop its activities in the most suitable conditions
• define clear, realistic and achievable project goals, methodology and outputs
• allocate the tasks and resources with respect to time and budget properly with relevant justifications  

Funding Information:
Maximum amount of budget for each project cannot exceed 35.000 TL (excluding VAT). 

Duration:
The maximum duration of projects should be 24 months.

Eligibility Criteria: 
Applications are accepted from TEDU full-time faculty members. Principle Investigators (PI) of ongoing IRF projects are not eligible to submit new applications. New applications are not permitted to the subsequent IRF call, if a funded PI fails to submit its final report within the project time-frame. 

How to Apply: 
Applications will be made through TEDU Portal according to the instructions given in this Call for Proposals document and TEDU-IRF Directive. To access the IRF Application Form; open Research Endorsements tile/app in TEDU Portal and select “Create Application”. Please don’t forget to select “Institutional Research Fund” as Project Type.

Required Documents which should be uploaded to the system:
The following documents must be uploaded to the system in order to make the application pass the conformity assessment and advance through the scientific evaluation phase.

• Literature Review (max. 5 pages)
• Timetable (Project Calendar)
• Budget Plan
• Risk Analysis (Technical, Operational, and Financial Risks should be mentioned -where relevant- and respective mitigation actions & contingency plans should be proposed)
• Proforma Invoices (if the project application contains budget items other than student support, those items should be accompanied with proforma invoices)
• Letter of Intent (required in the case of collaboration with other institutions)
• Ethics Committee Approval (if the proposed project topic contains ethical issues)/ Ethics exemption letters and/or other required Legal/Institutional Permissions (if third party infrastructure or Intellectual Property will be used in the project)

Student Support Rates:

This budget item should be calculated by using following unit cost per working hour rates:

• Undergraduate Student who already has social security registration : maximum 20 hours per month with TL 12.1 /hr (gross pay)
• Undergraduate Student who does not have any prior social security registration : maximum 40 hours per month with TL 12.1 /hr (gross pay)
• Graduate Student who already has social security registration : maximum 20 hours per month with TL 24.2 /hr (gross pay)
• Graduate Student who does not have any prior social security registration : maximum 40 hours per month with TL 24.2 /hr (gross pay)

Important Issues:

• Application form and literature review must be in English.
• Before deciding equipment, software & service pro. budget items that will be requested within the project; it should be first ensured that those are not available for use within TEDU premises.
• Travel item should be used only for realization of project activities, not for dissemination purposes (conference/training/workshop participation). TEDU-KAF and/or Congress Participation Support Program for Undergraduate and Graduate Students (Budget Code: T-20-B2024-31572) are in place for conference/training/workshop participation.
• Please do not include your personal information in the content of neither the application form nor the mandatory documents.