Dear students and young scientists!

From the April 1st, a new acceptance of applications for the UMNIK contest in 2022 will start. Applications will be accepted until 28.10.2022

The program is aimed at supporting commercially oriented scientific and technical projects of young researchers.

Individuals from 18 to 30 years old inclusive, who are citizens of the Russian Federation, and who have not previously won the program, can take part in the competition under this program.

Support options:
grant size – 500 thousand rubles;
term for the implementation of research – no more than 12 months (2 stages of 6 months each);
the direction of expenditures is R&D.
Program directions:
H1. Digital technologies;
H2. Medicine and technologies of health saving;
H3. New materials and chemical technologies;
H4. New instruments and intelligent manufacturing technologies;
H5. Biotechnology;
H6. Resource-saving energy.
Expected results:

an application for registration of rights to the results of intellectual activity (hereinafter referred to as RIA) created as part of the implementation of research has been submitted;
a business plan for an innovative project has been developed, or an application has been submitted for the Student Startup program;
a pre-acceleration program was completed on the basis of an enterprise included in the register of pre-accelerators accredited by the Foundation, in order to study the prospects for the commercial use of research results;
a roadmap for the development of the project was developed.
Detailed information on the dates of the semi-finals and finals can be found here https://umnik.fasie.ru/yekaterinburg
For assistance in writing a competitive application, please contact the Center for Innovation and Technology Transfer of USMU – innovator-ugmu@mail.ru