Opening of applications for the "Development-NTI" competition (VII stage) of the Innovation Promotion Fund

Opening of applications for the Development-NTI competition (VII stage) of the Innovation Promotion Fund

The purpose of the competition is to provide financial support to small innovative enterprises for financial support of R&D in order to implement action plans ("road maps") of the National Technology Initiative.
The competition is aimed at supporting enterprises that have a positive business reputation, as well as experience in the development, marketing and sales of high-tech products planning to conduct R&D in order to create and develop new high-tech markets that will determine the structure of the world economy in the next 15-20 years.

Within the framework of the competition, it is planned to select projects involving R&D in order to implement the following NTI roadmaps (lots):

  • Autonet;
  • Aeronet;
  • Marinette;
  • Neuronet;
  • Energinet;
  • Helsnet;
  • Technet;
  • Circular motion.

The proposed projects should be focused on overcoming the technological barriers formulated for each roadmap. Information on the goals, directions and significant control results of the roadmaps, as well as a list of technological barriers, is provided at https://nti2035.ru/documents/Road_maps/ .

Main parameters of the provided support:

  • grant size - up to 20 million rubles;
  • off-budget co-financing (at the expense of own or borrowed funds) - at least 30% of the grant amount;
  • direction of support - R&D (the grant can be spent on salaries, raw materials, materials, components, services of co-executors);
  • the term for R&D is 12 or 18 months.

Possible options for extrabudgetary financing of the project:

  • attraction of off-budget funds of a private investor;
  • investing the company's own funds;
  • funds received under loan agreements concluded with Russian credit institutions for the implementation of the project;
  • borrowed funds from an individual and (or) legal entity.


Based on the results of the implementation of the grant agreement, the grantee should achieve the following results:

  • R&D completed;
  • an application has been submitted for registration of the results of intellectual activity in the Russian Federation and / or abroad.

Enterprises that meet the following requirements can participate in the competition:

  • have the status of a tax resident of the Russian Federation;
  • have the status of "Micro-Enterprise" or "Small Enterprise" in the Unified Register of SMEs;
  • among the types of economic activities of the applicant must be the type of activity corresponding to OKVED 72.1 (OK 029-2014 dated  01.02.2014 ) "Research and development in the field of natural and technical sciences";
  • the head of the enterprise should not simultaneously act as the head of the enterprise or the scientific director of the project in other applications, as well as projects financed by the Foundation at the present time;
  • the scientific leader of the project should not simultaneously act as the head of the enterprise or the scientific leader of the project in other applications, as well as projects financed by the Foundation at the present time;
  • the applicant must not have open contracts for receiving government grants with the Foundation.

Applications are accepted from April 29 to 10:00 (Moscow time) June 7, 2021.
You can familiarize yourself with the competition regulations at the link https://fasie.ru/press/fund/ razvitie-nti-2021 / .
You can apply for the competition by following the link https://online.fasie.ru/

In the photo, the winners from the Rostov region of the "Development-NTI" competition in 2020 - the company ETC "DONENERGOMASH" LLC.

You can get advice on any issues that have arisen in the Representative Office of the Fund in the Rostov Region (ANO "Agency for Innovations of the Rostov Region") by phone +7 (961) 293-46-95 or e-mail rostov@fasie.ru .

Information posted 30.04.2021
Information changed 07.05.2021