On December 28, 2023, the National Research Foundation of Ukraine decided to announce a new competition for scientific research and development projects «Research infrastructures for conducting advanced scientific research».
The purpose of the competition is to select projects to provide grant support for conducting fundamental and applied scientific research to ensure the development of the national research area and its integration into the world research area, the development of research infrastructure as a set of means, resources and related services.
The competition is also aimed at solving the following issues:
- creation, functioning and ensuring the development of infrastructure centers for solving multidisciplinary tasks;
- involvement of commercial structures for the introduction of science-intensive products;
- avoidance of research fragmentation and double use of funds;
- unification of complementary examinations;
- preparation of the material base of leading teams of Ukrainian scientists, raising their scientific ranking to the highest global standards, as well as increasing their scientific and administrative competence with the aim of creating state key laboratories in the future;
- consolidation of scientific communities around advanced teams.
The topic of the projects must correspond to at least one of the priority areas of science and technology development (in accordance with Article 3 of the Law of Ukraine «On Priority Areas of Development of Science and Technology»). The application for receiving grant support submitted to the Competition must correspond to one of the thematic areas listed below:
- Fundamental scientific research in the field of natural sciences and mathematics;
- Basic research in the field of life sciences;
- Applied research aimed at creating technologies (including IT) and products based on the latest achievements of fundamental science;
- Fundamental socio-humanitarian research on the most pressing problems of our time;
- Multidisciplinary research.
For more details, visit the website of the National Research Foundation of Ukraine.