Turkish Association For Psychopharmacology Grants

Definition :

The Turkish Association for Psychopharmacology awards this grant in order to provide financial support to scientists, in accordance with the categories listed below or possessing the required high qualifications, to conduct work or study in the fields of biological psychiatry in countries outside Turkey.

The Association Board of Directors is obliged to compile a selection committee to select the scientists that to be supported and to provide the funds governing the grant. The Association Board of Directors shall have the right at any time to temporarily postpone or cancel this grant in any such situation that it may not be in a position to provide sufficient funds into the grant. The Association Board of Directors shall notify the number of grants that it will award and their categories, no less than 6 months before the Clinical Psychopharmacology Congress. For the year 2008, there shall be one grant each awarded from categories I and II.

The financial support shall cover the transportation costs (economy class return), health insurance for 3 month duration and a monthly spending allowance of 1500 USD of the scientist.


Category I: Young Researcher Grant
1. This grant can be applied to by psychiatry and pharmacology assistants who have completed their 2nd year and by psychiatry and pharmacology specialists (Associate-Professors incl.), under the age of 40, who are currently working for an educational institution.
2. The applications must be submitted together with the yearly National Congress on Psychopharmacology (NCP) poster applications.
3. Requirements from applicants:
a. Applicant must submit at least 1 poster to the poster competition at the NCP.
b. Full resume and list of publications.
c. The applicant must send together with his application, documentation to prove that 65 or more points have been awarded from the UDS (or its equivalent).
d. A 1250-1500 word text in ENGLISH, stating the applicant’s opinion on the future of psychiatry and the role that the applicant would like play within that future.
e. A letter of reference of the applicant from the head of the educational establishment at which the applicant works (supervisor, department head, dean)

4. The applicants that chosen to receive grants, from within the top five of the winners of the pre-requisite poster competition shall be notified at the award ceremony at the end of the congress.

Category II: Career Development Grant

This grant can only be applied for by associate-professors and professors who are currently involved in active scientific research or those providing education in the fields of psychiatry or psychopharmacology. There is no age limit but the applicant must posses high scientific qualities and must posses research that has made a contribution to world science literature during the application process for this grant. A letter of application must be presented to The Turkish Association for Psychopharmacology Board of Directors, no less than 1 month before the NCP congress, notifying that the applicant wishes to be considered for the prize. During the application process, the applicant must provide a resume containing a list of publications, a 1250-1500 word text in ENGLISH, stating the applicant’s opinion on the future of psychiatry and the role that the applicant would like play within that future, the applicant’s three most important works and the country and centre the applicant wishes to go to with the grant


Duration :

The successful applicants must notify the association board of directors within 6 months of the NCP, of the centre and country that the applicant –shall go to and the letter of acceptance from that centre, together with other relevant details (leaving and returning dates, bank account numbers, etc). Under association policies, this grant is awarded as an aim to provide support for employees in the field of biological psychiatry, therefore, it shall be required that the centre of study that conducts biological psychiatry research. Grants may be cancelled in the event that suitable centres are not provided by the applicant. This decision shall be at the discretion of the association board of directors.

The applicant must use the grant within 12 months of being awarded.

Travel and insurance together with the first months grant shall be paid into the applicant’s bank account prior to departure. The following two months’ payments shall be made into an account held at an active Turkish Republic bank.

On their return, applicants shall present the association board of directors with a summarised report of their studies abroad and share these studies with their colleagues by giving a talk at following NCP.

Following the award of the grant, in the event of behaviour by the applicant contrary to that of the laws of the Republic of Turkey; or employment ethics rules and regulations during the time allocated to complete studies abroad within the framework of the grant, the applicant shall be taken out of the grant program and a repayment of all payments (travel, insurance inclusive) made until the time of cancellation shall be demanded in return.