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10TH INSTANBUL PHOTO AWARDS

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Application Deadline:  January 17, 2024, at 23:59 UTC+3.

LOCATION: Turkey

Applications are open for the 10th Instabul Photo Awards for professional and freelance photographers to participate in the photo contest. There will be prizes to be won.

ELIGIBILITY:

Applications are free and open between 17 Nov. 2023 – 17 Jan. 2024 at 23:59 (UTC+3).  

Photographs contain the relevant and correct information. Submitted photos must be taken in 2023 (between 1 Jan. 2023- 31 Dec. 2023).

Photographer has the liability for providing accurate personal information like name, age, company etc. besides the image info like date, location etc..

All submissions must have necessary information embedded into photographs IPTC like: title, description, creation date, city and country. The info and category of the photographs can be updated until the deadline.

Photography captions must be written in English. Kindly check the caption limits before upload your photos.

No signatures, stamp or any other identifying mark is allowed anywhere on the entry. Photographer’s name or company should not be mentioned at the captions.

Digital manipulation and any kind of Photoshop effects is not allowed, only basic colour corrections are allowed. It is not allowed to add signatures on the photo or in the caption.

Photographers must be the copyright owner of the submitted photographs.

Photographs must not violate any third-party rights.

Photographers are invited to apply all categories at the same time, both with published and unpublished photos. 

Photographers can apply 4 different photos in Single categories and 2 different stories in Story categories.

The same photo cannot be submitted into two different categories. Story category applications should include 10 photos.

Kindly note that this contest is for professionals only and Istanbul Photo Awards’ jury may ask for proofs of the source of the photo or publications on newspapers, magazines or web sites.

BENEFIT:

CATEGORIES                                  FIRST            SECOND            THIRD

SINGLE NEWS*6,000 USD1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY NEWS3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE SPORTS3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY SPORTS3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE NATURE & ENVIRONMENT3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY NATURE & ENVIRONMENT3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE PORTRAIT3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY PORTRAIT3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
SINGLE DAILY LIFE3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD
STORY DAILY LIFE3,000 USD 1,500 USD1,000 USD

The jury will select two photographers’ works from all series categories submissions to be awarded with a special tenth anniversary prize of 1,000 USD.

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TWAS-TÜBİTAK POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME

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Application Deadline: 25 December 2023

LOCATION: Turkey

The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Türkiye (TÜBİTAK) and TWAS have established a fellowship programme for foreign scholars from developing countries in the South who wish to pursue postdoctoral research in a field of the natural and related applied sciences in the departments and laboratories of public and private universities of Türkiye and TÜBİTAK Research Centers and Institutes.

ELIGIBILITY:

Be permanent residents and nationals of a developing country in the South (https://twas.org/developing-countries-south).

Candidates from Science and Technology Lagging countries (STLC) and women are especially encouraged to apply. For the list of STLC, please see https://twas.org/66-countries.
NB. Developing countries that are not in the list are also eligible to apply.

Must not hold any visa for temporary or permanent residency in Turkey or any developed country;

Be employed in a developing country (other than the host country) and hold a research assignment there. Applicants must provide a Supporting Statement from the head/director of the applicant’s current employer according to the format of TÜBİTAK (see sample that can be downloaded below or from TÜBİTAK’s online application website). The supporting statement is to support the candidate’s application and prove that s/he will be given leave if awarded.

Hold a PhD degree in natural and related applied sciences (in one of the fields specified above);

Be a maximum age of 45 years on 31 December of the application year;

Provide an official Acceptance Letter (see sample that can be downloaded below or from TÜBİTAK’s online application website) from an eligible department, institution or laboratory of a public or private university in Turkey, or TÜBİTAK Research Centers and Institutes.

NB. Requests for acceptance must be directed to the chosen host institution(s) in Turkey, and NOT to TÜBİTAK. Without preliminary acceptance, the application will not be considered for selection. The acceptance letter must be signed by the highest authority of the chosen host institute. The maximum number of academic advisors in Turkey can be 2 (two).

Candidates who received their PhD from a university in Turkey are required to receive an acceptance letter from a university other than the one where they received their doctorate degree, and carry out their research with an academic advisor(s) other than their doctoral thesis advisor.

Provide the Research proposal form  prepared in the format determined by TÜBİTAK (see sample that can be downloaded below or from TÜBİTAK’s online application website);

2216b-tubitak-twas_2023-call-for-applications_0.pdf

BENEFIT:

Fully funded

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