The Gebze Technical University (GTU) Revolving Fund Management Directorate (RFMD) operates with the mission of managing the administrative, financial, and technical processes of activities conducted by academic staff within the University's research units, in accordance with the provisions of the Revolving Fund Regulation, in compliance with legal regulations, and in alignment with the GTU Strategic Plan (2022–2026).

Pursuant to Article 58 of the Higher Education Law No. 2547, the RFMD carries out its activities under the Regulation on the Establishment of Revolving Fund Enterprises in Higher Education Institutions (published in the Official Gazette dated 18.06.2020, No. 31159), the Regulation of the Gebze Technical University Revolving Fund Management Directorate (published on 12.11.2021, No. 31657), the Budget and Accounting Regulation for Revolving Fund Enterprises, and the Public Financial Management and Control Law No. 5018.

The primary objective of the GTU RFMD is to manage, in accordance with relevant legislation, the production and sale of surplus goods and services of a marketable nature that result from university activities, without disrupting core educational and instructional functions. The scope of activities that may be undertaken by GTU academic staff under the RFMD includes:

1 - Conducting various tests and analyses with updated prices listed on the Industrial Services Office Coordination (GebzeLAB) website, within the university infrastructure.

2 - Preparing Research and Development (R&D) projects aligned with the University’s areas of activity and in response to requests from external entities, both individuals and organizations, facilitating the implementation of scientific results and their transformation into technological applications.

3 - Providing scientific opinions, preparing projects, conducting research, consultancy, and similar services, organizing courses, seminars, conferences, and symposiums in response to requests from external entities, consistent with the University's fields of expertise.

4 - Delivering consultancy, planning, feasibility studies, analysis, measurement, inspection, technical control, quality control, compliance testing, technical maintenance, reporting, printing, sample printing, software development, design, prototype development, material/product development with specified features, enhancing functionalities or properties of known products, imaging, project evaluation, and psychometric measurement services requested by institutions outside higher education in fields aligned with university activities.

5 - Conducting research, development, design, and innovation projects pursuant to the additional paragraph (k) added to Article 58 of Law No. 2547 by Article 5 of Law No. 6676 published in the Official Gazette dated 26.02.2016 and numbered 29636.

In addition to effectively managing the revenues and expenditures generated from the aforementioned activities, GTU RFMD is committed to providing accurate and timely information to academic staff regarding these activities.