TÜBİTAK 1511 — Priority Areas Industrial R&D Grant (Seed)
Supports Turkish industrial projects in priority themes including energy, cybersecurity, space, and advanced materials.
TÜBİTAK 1511 is the Priority Areas Industrial R&D Grant, which funds industrial R&D and innovation projects in technology domains that TÜBİTAK designates as national priorities on a call-by-call basis. Unlike TÜBİTAK 1501, which accepts open-topic R&D proposals from Turkish companies, 1511 is topic-gated: each call specifies a defined thematic area — drawn from sectors such as artificial intellige…
Industrial R&D and innovation projects in technology areas designated as national priorities by TÜBİTAK per call, including areas such as AI, energy, cybersecurity, space, and defense.
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