Design Support is a strategic incentive provided to increase the industrial design power of Turkish firms, support their original product development capacities, and enable them to achieve value-added export in global markets. It creates a significant leverage effect, especially for firms operating in sectors such as fashion, textiles, furniture, packaging, automotive supply industry, and white goods.
Different stakeholders of the design ecosystem can benefit from this support:
The program supports a wide range of expenditures that a design-oriented business might need:
| Expense Category | Supported Expenditures | |
|---|---|---|
| 🏢 | Office and Employment | Design office rent and basic equipment expenses; gross salaries of domestic and foreign designers. |
| 💻 | Technical Infrastructure | Purchase/rental expenses for software and technical hardware used for design and modeling. |
| 📢 | Promotion and Marketing | Participation in domestic/international design competitions, fairs, and organizations; promotion, catalogs, magazine ads; website design and multi-language content creation. |
| 🎓 | Development and Protection | Consultancy, training, and certification expenses; patent, utility model, industrial design registration, and protection expenses. |
The design center or office that will benefit from the support must first be registered in the Ministry of Trade's system.
Expenditures within the scope of the support are made and substantiated with official documents such as invoices, payment receipts, contracts, and SSI declarations.
After the expenditure is made, an online application is carried out via DYS (Support Management System) with the relevant documents.
The relevant Exporters' Association reviews the application, and the support payment is made in TRY for the approved expenditures.