The Russian Science Foundation announces an open public competition for grants from the Russian Science Foundation for the event “Conducting proactive research by young scientists” of the Presidential Program of Research Projects implemented by leading scientists, including young scientists.
Grants are allocated for fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research from the moment the results of the competition are summed up until 30 June, 2026.
Application deadline: 17:00 11 March 2024.
Grant's amount: up to 1.5 million rubles annually.
Grants are allocated for the implementation of scientific, scientific and technical programs and projects selected based on the results of the competition, providing for fundamental scientific research and exploratory scientific research in the following fields of knowledge:
- mathematics, computer and systems sciences;
- physics and space sciences;
- chemistry and materials sciences;
- biology and life sciences;
- basic research for medicine;
- agricultural sciences;
- Earth sciences;
- humanities and social sciences;
- engineering sciences.
Scientific research (project) must be aimed at solving specific problems within one of the areas defined in the Strategy for Scientific and Technological Development of the Russian Federation, which will allow obtaining scientific and scientific and technical results and creating technologies that are the basis for the innovative development of the domestic market of products and services, Russia’s stable position in the foreign market, and will ensure:
H1. Transition to advanced digital, intelligent manufacturing technologies, robotic systems, new materials and design methods, creation of systems for processing large volumes of data, machine learning and artificial intelligence;
H2. Transition to environmentally friendly and resource-saving energy, increasing the efficiency of production and deep processing of hydrocarbons, the formation of new sources, methods of transportation and storage of energy;
H3. Transition to personalized medicine, high-tech healthcare and health-saving technologies, including through the rational use of medicines (primarily antibacterial);
H4. Transition to highly productive and environmentally friendly agricultural and aquatic farming, development and implementation of systems for the rational use of chemical and biological protection of agricultural plants and animals, storage and efficient processing of agricultural products, creation of safe and high-quality, including functional, food products;
H5. Countering man-made, biogenic, sociocultural threats, terrorism and ideological extremism, as well as cyber threats and other sources of danger to society, the economy and the state;
H6. Connectivity of the territory of the Russian Federation through the creation of intelligent transport and telecommunication systems, as well as taking and maintaining leadership positions in the creation of international transport and logistics systems, the development and use of outer and air space, the world ocean, the Arctic and Antarctic;
H7. The possibility of an effective response of Russian society to great challenges, taking into account the interaction of man and nature, man and technology, social institutions at the present stage of global development, including using methods of the humanities and social sciences.
The competition is open to researchers up to 33 years of age inclusive at the time of the deadline for submitting a competitive application and who have an academic degree of Candidate of Sciences, regardless of the position and citizenship of the researcher.
SPbGASU participants must coordinate the competiton documentation with the Division of Scientific Work (phone +7 (812) 575-05-43, e-mail: sunr308@mail.ru).