FUND FOR PROMOTING INNOVATIONS announces the start of accepting applications for participation in the "START-1" program and the beginning of accepting applications for the UMNIK program in May.
Students, graduate students, young scientists, innovators, entrepreneurs and employees of high-tech companies, as well as participants of the UMNIK program who are citizens of Russia and who have not previously had contracts with the Fund (with the exception of the UMNIK program) can take part in the competition.
The "Start" program is aimed at creating new and supporting existing small innovative enterprises that are at an early stage of development and strive to develop and master the production of new products, technologies or services using the results of their own scientific, technical and technological research with significant potential for commercialization.
Projects are selected in the following thematic areas (lots):
- H1. Digital technologies;
- H2. Medicine and technologies of health preservation;
- H3. New materials and chemical technologies;
- H4. New devices and intelligent manufacturing technologies;
- H5. Biotechnology;
- H6. Resource-saving energy.
The program is implemented in 3 stages:
- 1st stage of the Program - Start-1 competition: grant up to 3 million rubles;
- 2nd stage of the Program - competition "Start-2": grant up to 7 million rubles;
- 3rd stage of the Program - Business-Start competition: grant up to 10 million rubles.
Full information about the competition at: http://fasie.ru/programs/programma-start/
Applications are accepted until 10:00 (Moscow time) on May 31, 2021.
Based on the results of the implementation of the grant agreement, the grantee must create intellectual property, the rights to which must be formalized in accordance with the Civil Code of the Russian Federation for the enterprise - the grantee.
The R&D period is 12 months from the date of the grant agreement.
You can submit an application through the AS Fond-M system at the address: http://online.fasie.ru .
IMPORTANT: For registration in the system, contact the department for the organization and development of research and innovation activities of the management of NP and ONI, tel. 201-43-72.