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Dmitry Chernyshenko: 2.5 thousand students will receive 1 million rubles each for the implementation of technological startups. On the right is the Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov
The Ministry of Education and Science has announced a competition for grants called “Student Startup.” Applications can be submitted until May 20 atofficial website of the project.
Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko noted that the number of grant recipients increases annually.
“President Vladimir Putin emphasizes that the share of youth technology entrepreneurship in the country’s economy should increase significantly in the coming years. The Government is currently implementing a number of measures aimed at this, including expanding the grant program for student startups. In 2025, 2.5 thousand students will receive grants of 1 million rubles to implement their ideas – 500 more than the year before. Absolutely all university students can participate in the competition. I am confident that such opportunities will allow young talents to reveal their potential and contribute to the technological future of Russia,” said the Deputy Prime Minister.
Dmitry Chernyshenko also emphasized that over the entire period of the Student Startup grant competition, since 2022, 4.5 thousand startups have been supported. This competition is one of the seven tools of the University Technological Entrepreneurship Platform, which this year was included in the new federal project Technologies of the national project Effective and Competitive Economy.
“Over three years, the competition has attracted more than 18,000 students from all over the country. If at the start of the project we received over 4,000 applications, then in 2024 their number doubled. This year, postgraduate students and residents of scientific organizations will be able to join the competition for the first time. Their involvement in the creation of technological startups will allow us to establish even closer ties between research institutes and businesses, shorten the path from an idea to its transformation into a real technology or product,” said Minister of Science and Higher Education Valery Falkov.
The selection of projects for the Student Startup competition is carried out in seven thematic tracks, most of which correspond to priority areas of scientific and technological development in Russia: digital technologies, medicine and health-preserving technologies, chemical technologies and new materials, new devices and intelligent production technologies, biotechnology, resource-saving energy, creative industries. In 2024, the largest number of applications were submitted for digital technologies.
If they win the competition, participants will have to register a legal entity, develop a business plan and launch a website for their startup.
The operator of the Student Startup competition is the Innovation Assistance Fund. Detailed information is available on the competition page https: //fashi.ru/studstartend/ and in the competition regulations.
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