SSG and JRG

05 July 2017 year

Announcement!

The Science Committee of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the Fostering Productive Innovation Project would like to congratulate the winners of the SSG/JRG Grant Program.

Note: The projects selected by the International Science and Commercialization Board (hereinafter - ISCB) have undergone an ecological categorization procedure under the Environmental Management Framework developed in accordance with the requirements and procedures of the World Bank.

For category "C" - no integrated environmental assessment is required.

For category "B-" -  an actual Environmental Management Plan together with all licenses and Material Safety Data Sheet. In addition, Annex No. 6 to the Grant Agreement must be completed.

For category "B+" - projects can be funded if positive Environmental Impact Assessment conclusion of the authority body is provided, or if they have short term environmental impacts (EIA report and/or EMPs required).

Besides EIA materials the Environmental Management Plan (EMP) shall be developed. Grantee’s responsibilities include organization and financing the development of the EIA materials and/or EMP. The deadline for submission of the EIA report is November 1st 2017.

For category "C", to execute the Grant Agreement please submit the following documents until July 17th 2017:

1) Certificate on the state registration of the new legal entity;

2) Notarized copies of the constituent instrument (Contract) or Charter;

3) Original bank statement on availability of the account to accumulate grant funds (grant account);

4) Original bank statement on availability of the account to accumulate co-financing funds (co-financing account).

This statement should include information on the co-financing funds in the amount as specified in the preliminary/full application; co-financing funds must be provided prior to signing of Grant Agreement, unless otherwise indicated in an application. If co-financing is provided by the business partner, a notarized copy of the contract or other document confirming the amount and terms of co-financing in accordance with the payment schedule shall be provided;

5) A notarized copy of the contract or documents confirming the cooperation of a Grantee with the Customer of technology (if any was specified in an application);

6) Draft Grant Agreement (download).

List of winners selected under the SSG/JRG Grant Program

Contact number: 8 (7172) 23-90-64, 8 (7172) 23-90-66.

16 June 2017 year

Announcement!

The Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan under the Fostering Productive Innovation Project informs about the results of evaluation of full proposals of the Senior Scientist Groups (hereinafter - SSG) and Junior Researcher Groups (hereinafter - JRG) by ISCB members.

The shortlist of projects selected for final stage of the SSG and JRG Grant program contest and the schedule of presentations for ISCB are given below.

All projects selected for the final stage will be evaluated through environmental categorization and analyzed for duplication of funding and plagiarism.

In accordance with the procedures of the World Bank, in order to ensure their environmental safety and sustainability, all Sub-projects shall be assigned an environmental category. In line with Environmental Management Framework (EMF) under the Fostering Productive Innovation Project only Sub-projects with category "B" and "C" will be funded. Category "A" Sub-projects will not be funded.

The shortlist of projects: 

The schedule of presentations:

Dear applicants, selected for the final presentation stage for International Science and Commercialization Board!

The Project Management Unit for the Fostering Productive Innovation Project (hereinafter - PMU) informs that presentations of your projects for International Science and Commercialization Board (hereinafter - ISCB) will take place between June 18th-22nd 2017 in PMU office: Astana, Tauelsizdik av. 41, 5th floor, conference room.

You need to come to PMU office 30 minutes earlier than specified time in presentation schedule.

According to the presentation schedule, each project will be given 30 minutes, including 10 minutes - for presentation of project leader, 10 minutes for question-answer session and 10 minutes for internal discussion of ISCB members without involving applicants.

Presentations will be delivered in English, if project leader does not speak English, other team member who is fluent in English or a translator may be involved.  No more than 3 members from each application team may be present during the presentation.

For presentation, you need to bring:

• 9 paper copies of slides in English;
• 2 paper copies of slides in Russian;
• PowerPoint slides in English and Russian on an electronic media with no viruses or malicious software.

Contact number: 8 (7172) 23-90-64, 8 (7172) 23-90-66, on technical issues: 8 (775) 3032813.

 19 May 2017 year

Announcement!

The Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan informs about the preliminary results of the Senior Scientist Groups (SSG) and Junior Researcher Groups (JRG) Grant Program contest.

The shortlist of Sub-projects moving to the second stage of SSJRG Grant Program Contest is given below.

All shortlisted applicants should fill in the full proposal form on the Portal http://portal.fpip.kz. Deadline for full proposals submission is June 2nd, 2017, 6 PM Astana time.

 *Comments of the experts are available in personal account in corresponding section.

Download the Statistics on preliminary proposals for 2017

List of winners selected under the SSG/JRG Grant Program in 2016

The objective of the grant program

Component 1 "Development of knowledge base for innovation" considers the  implementation of the grants program for senior scientists group (hereinafter - SSG) and junior  researchers group (JRG).

The objective of the SSG and JRG Grant Program is to support Kazakhstani scientists to commercialize  the promising  R&D results conducted by a group of independent scientists in research institutes, universities and other institutions engaged in scientific and scientific and technical activities in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The program is aimed at promoting scientific investigations of local scientists in strategic for the country directions under the state program of industrial-innovative development for 2015-2019 years.

FUNDING OPPORTUNITY ANNOUNCEMENT FOR SSG AND JRG 

The Science Committee of the Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan, under the Fostering Productive Innovation Project, announces contest on Grant Program for Senior Scientist Groups (SSG) and Junior Scientist Groups (JRG) for commercialization of technology.The purpose of this Grant Program is to support the commercialization of technology based innovations. Commercialization of scientific and technical activities is defined as activities related to practical application of R&D, including intellectual property, aimed at launching new or improved products, processes and services for income extraction.

The purpose of this Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) is to invite submission of proposals from individuals and groups with innovative technologies at an advanced stage of research and development with HIGH COMMERCIAL POTENTIAL. Priority will be given to proposals with a high technology readiness for market entry, availability of business partner/investor (s) and/or customer (s).

International collaboration is important factor for the improvement of quality and relevance of R&D in Kazakhstan and proposals from international teams meeting requirements of the Grant Program are encouraged.

Selection will be carried out in two stages by the International Science and Commercialization Board. Details of the selection process can be found in the Grant Manual. The Implementation period for the commercialization of technology under these Grants should not exceed three (3) years. Group can not have more than 7 persons, not less than 50% of whom must be citizens of the Republic of Kazakhstan including the Head of Sub-project.

Grants of 230 mln. tenge for SSG and 180 mln. tenge for JRG are available . The goal of the project is for the companies to be self-sustainable through sales,  private sector investments and/or licensing agreements by the end of Year 3.

The Application period starts on March 01, 2017, 9-00 AM Astana. The deadline for receiving applications is April 3, 2017, 18-00 PM Astana. Terms and conditions of the contest are detailed in the SSG and JRG Grant Program Manual, which you can download on the website www.fpip.kz in the SSG and JRG section.  

It is critical that Applicants read and follow all application instructions in the Grant Manual. Applications must be submitted  in English, Kazakh and/or Russian on-line via the Portal www.fpip.kz. The English version of proposals will be regarded as the main document, since projects will be examined in English. Conformance to all requirements (both in the FOA and Grant Manual) is required and strictly enforced. Applications that do not comply with these instructions may be delayed or not accepted for review.  

For more information about SSG and JRG Grant Program, please contact This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call the PMU(Project Management Unit) of Fostering Productive Innovations Project: 8 775 303 28 13, 8 775 303 28 51, 8 771 817 34 93. 

Who can participate?

Applicants should form a group of scientists with no more than 7 people, including a specialist in the commercialization of technology and engineer / technologist, who in future in case of a winning a grant will establish an independent legal entity in the form of a limited liability company in order to implement the project and extract revenue from commercialisation of R&D results.

How to apply for the grant program?

SSG and JRG Grants will be assigned on a competitive basis after the expertise of the  independent body, International Science and Commercialization Board (ISCB), which includes 7 international experts in the field of science and business, and 2 local experts.

In order to determine the best ideas and propositions, a two-stage selection will be carried out. In the first stage, the applicants make short proposals (pre-proposals) which are evaluated by ISCB members, then the applicants who passed the first stage submit full proposals justifying in more details the measures, the costs and the expected results.

Points give an advantage in the consideration and serve as a source of information during the final evaluation of projects by the International Science and Commercialization Board. All decisions on the selection of projects are taken by ISCB.

To ensure a uniform application system, the procedures like collection, evaluation and follow-up monitoring of applications will be carried out through a specially designed portal integrated into this site.

More detailed information about SSG and JRG grant program and the competition’s requirements can be found in the guide for participants of SSG and JRG Grant Program under the   “Fostering Productive Innovation” project. We recommend you to read the answers for frequently asked questions.

The announcements regarding the applications will be published in the media, on the website of the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as in this project’s site.

We invite all scientific organizations and independent scientists to actively participate in the competition under SSG and JRG Grant Program!