R&D Awards
6th International Conference on Design, Research and Development
The awards recognise the strongest R&D, design and innovation work presented at the congress.
How it works
Present
Submit your work and present it at the congress.
Publish
Accepted work is published on the route you chose at registration.
Compete
Enter the awards in your registration and pick your categories.
Award Categories
- Best R&D Project Awards (top 3)
- Best Design Project Awards (top 3)
- Most Innovative Project Awards (top 3)
- Most Novel Science-Based Project Awards (top 3)
- Best Software R&D Project Awards (top 3)
- Best AI-Based Project Awards (top 3)
- Best Sustainability Project Awards (top 3)
- Best Industry Project Awards (top 3)
- Special Award
Why the awards exist
Most R&D work never leaves the company that paid for it. It closes as a year-end report and stays there. The RDCONF R&D and Innovation Awards put that work in front of a jury and a room of people doing the same job — companies, R&D centres and design centres in Türkiye working in design, manufacturing and software. Projects are assessed against the criteria applied to conference papers.
Who can enter
Companies, R&D centres and design centres in Türkiye working in design, manufacturing or software. There is no limit on how many projects one organisation may enter. Each project is entered as a paper — an abstract is enough; a full paper is not required — and competes in two categories.
How to enter
- Write the project up as an English abstract in the official RDCONF format; a full paper is not required.
- Upload it through the Orclever submission system by 22 November 2026.
- Register for the congress and choose the categories you want to compete in.
- Present the accepted paper in person on 26–27 November 2026. Oral presentation is required; a paper that is not presented is not published.
How entries are scored
- Originality and contribution — 20%
- Innovation — 20%
- National impact and wider benefit — 20%
- Methodology — 15%
- Employment and career development — 15%
- Scientific collaboration — 10%
Three projects are recognised in each category, and the jury presents one Special Award. Decisions rest on the jury's assessment — not on registration fees, and not on how many entries a category receives.
What winning gives you
A named, dated recognition — the kind an R&D manager can show a head office, a client or a recruitment page. Awards are presented during the congress, in front of the delegates.
Contact
Questions about the awards: rdconf@orclever.com
Apply for the Awards
Submit your project paper through Orclever, and register for the conference to compete.
- Congress
- · İstanbul
- Abstract deadline (last day)