Until recently, “twin transition” was mostly a phrase from consulting reports and conference slides. It is now the name of a government project. On the green transition portal of Türkiye’s Ministry of Industry and Technology, documents published under the title Industrial Twin Transition Project (TransformIndustry) — an Environmental and Social Commitment Plan and a Stakeholder Engagement Plan, both updated during summer 2026 — give the concept an institutional frame.
What does this mean for a manufacturer? The short answer: green and digital investment are now assessed under one policy umbrella rather than two separate agendas. The longer answer has more layers — this article lays out what the project is, which financing it sits under, and what an SME should take away from it today, with sources throughout.
What is TransformIndustry?
TransformIndustry is run by the Ministry’s General Directorate of Strategic Research and Productivity. On the Ministry’s yesildonusum.sanayi.gov.tr announcements page, two core documents are published under the project:
- Environmental and Social Commitment Plan (ESCP) — published on 3 July 2026 in Turkish.
- Stakeholder Engagement Plan (SEP) — published the same day in Turkish, with an English version dated 26 June 2026.
This pair of document types is a standard combination in internationally financed development projects: one commits to how the project will manage environmental and social risk, the other describes how affected parties — businesses, local authorities, civil society — will be involved along the way. In short, TransformIndustry is less a single support programme and more a framework project building the institutional infrastructure to manage industry’s twin transition.
The financing behind it: Ministry coordination, World Bank funding
The portal that hosts TransformIndustry is also the official page of the World Bank-funded Türkiye Green Industry Project. Approved by the World Bank in 2023, this project rests on $450 million in total financing across three components: a $250 million credit line for SMEs channelled through KOSGEB, $175 million for green R&D channelled through TÜBİTAK, and a $25 million institutional-capacity component for Ministry coordination.
TransformIndustry’s ESCP/SEP documents look like the safeguard framework for that third component — the coordination and institutional-capacity side. We already gathered the concrete support figures (ceilings, support rates, eligibility) for the KOSGEB and TÜBİTAK components in a separate, sourced article; TransformIndustry is news about the policy architecture above those figures, not the figures themselves.
Seeing the three components side by side clarifies who is looking at what:
| Component | Runs through | Focus | Visibility for SMEs |
|---|---|---|---|
| Institutional coordination ($25M) | Ministry — TransformIndustry | Policy framework, safeguard plans | Indirect — shapes future rules and calls |
| Green investment credit ($250M) | KOSGEB | Solar power, circular economy | Directly applicable |
| Green R&D support ($175M) | TÜBİTAK | Call 1832, TRL 3-9 projects | Directly applicable |
The first row is not a form an SME can fill in today. But it is the ground that is likely to shape how KOSGEB’s and TÜBİTAK’s own call criteria evolve.
Regional precedents: two examples from Ankara and Istanbul
The twin transition label is not confined to the central project; the same term is already taking shape at regional level:
- The Ankara Chamber of Industry (ASO) runs a project titled “Industrial Twin Transition Through the Use of Domestic Technology,” aimed at adapting local technology solutions to industry and strengthening businesses’ transformation capacity.
- Funded by the Istanbul Development Agency and run by Boğaziçi University Foundation, the Istanbul Twin Transition Platform Project offered free capacity assessments to 30 manufacturing firms across the automotive, white goods, machinery, electronics and textile sectors. Its application window (November 2025) has closed, but it matters as a precedent: regional development agencies are now funding direct business support under an explicit twin-transition frame.
What these examples share is that green transition and digital transition are no longer two separate application windows, but two legs of a single evaluation framework. The practical implication for an SME: future support calls are likely to assess both sides together — not just energy efficiency, or just software investment, but how the two reinforce each other.
ESCP and SEP: two acronyms that reach SMEs indirectly
ESCP and SEP may look like they have nothing to do with a manufacturer — they are commitments the project’s implementer (the Ministry) makes to an international financial institution. In practice, though, they feed back in two ways:
- Data requests grow. Environmental and social safeguard frameworks typically ask beneficiary businesses for a minimum set of information too: energy and water consumption, waste management, occupational health and safety records. An SME applying for support may increasingly meet this kind of screening question.
- Stakeholder involvement becomes formal. Under the SEP, industry chambers, SME associations and sector bodies are brought into the project’s consultation process. A business can take part indirectly through its own sector association — an early opportunity to influence how future support is designed.
None of this requires memorising the acronyms. What matters is recognising that industrial financing is no longer driven only by “how much support,” but also by “how it is governed and who monitors it.”
The practical takeaway: what an SME should prepare now
TransformIndustry itself is not a programme an SME can apply to directly — it is an institutional framework project. But the direction it signals is clear: green and digital investment are expected to be presented together, backed by measurable data. Preparing for that runs in three steps:
- Measure — connect your energy, water and production data to a steady stream via meters, sensors and machine-to-machine (M2M) links. This data underpins both KOSGEB/TÜBİTAK applications and any future environmental-social screening questions.
- Transform — move scattered spreadsheets into a single system (ERP plus automation) so that application files and monitoring reports can be generated from it.
- Sustain — report the post-approval monitoring period from the same infrastructure; both KOSGEB/TÜBİTAK and international financial institutions typically expect interim and final reports.
A business that puts these three steps in place before applying tends to face fewer surprises, both during the application and during the monitoring period that follows.
İkiz Eksen’s approach
İkiz Eksen works exactly at the intersection of these three steps: it measures field data, turns it into value on the digital transition side with ERP and IoT, and builds the data infrastructure that support applications — and any future environmental-social reporting — will need on the green transition side. Drawing on Qera’s track record of 550+ businesses, 15+ sectors and 100+ ERP migrations, we run end-to-end, turnkey projects across Türkiye on Microsoft Azure infrastructure.
Businesses that want to prepare for the direction TransformIndustry signals can review our solution areas or get in touch directly.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can an SME apply to TransformIndustry directly?
No — TransformIndustry is an institutional framework and coordination project run by the Ministry; it is not a support programme open to individual business applications. Concrete, applicable financing runs through KOSGEB’s Green Industry Support Programme and TÜBİTAK’s call 1832.
Has “twin transition” become an official term?
It appears so. The term now appears in the Ministry’s own project name (“Industrial Twin Transition Project”) and in the titles of regional bodies’ projects (ASO, the Istanbul Development Agency and Boğaziçi University Foundation) — a sign it has moved from consulting language into public policy language.
Where can I follow the ESCP and SEP documents?
Under the “Announcements” section of the Ministry’s yesildonusum.sanayi.gov.tr portal. Documents are updated periodically; a business can also join the stakeholder process indirectly through its sector association.
Does this affect my existing KOSGEB/TÜBİTAK applications?
Not for now — current eligibility criteria and figures have not changed. But new call designs that assess green and digital investment together may appear over the medium term, which is one more reason to build your data infrastructure now rather than later.
Can I rely on these figures?
This article is based on public announcements on the Ministry’s official yesildonusum.sanayi.gov.tr portal and the World Bank’s press release on the Türkiye Green Industry Project (as of September 2026). Project scope and documents may be updated over time; check the relevant authority’s official page for the current status.