Agency for Innovative Development
State-funded: all project costs (travel, accommodation, and access to laboratories, equipment and materials) are fully covered by the government. A single project's budget may not exceed 200 times the base calculation value (the exact amount in soʻm is not fixed, as it depends on the current BCV).
Open to researchers under 40 (regardless of academic degree, title or position); each participant may submit only one project. The programme is hosted at leading research centres and universities within Uzbekistan — it is intended only for Uzbekistan citizens/institutions, not international applicants.
Uzbekistan citizens only
Apply via the akadem.ilmiy.uz platform, uploading: an institutional recommendation, a project calendar plan and budget, academic council approval, a list of publications (endorsed by the research supervisor), the host institution's consent, and a project presentation (up to 10 slides).
Periodic
Announced several times a year in separate rounds. The 2026 round 2 ran from 3 June to 4 July (closed). The next round's dates are announced separately on akadem.ilmiy.uz.
World Bank + Ministry of HESI
The MUNIS project has allocated a total of $50 million (2 components, 5 sub-programs). The main dollar-denominated grant programs are: the Innovation Capabilities Program (ICP) — up to $50,000 for small and medium businesses (SMEs); the Research Commercialization Program (RCP) — a $4 million total fund, up to $150,000 per sub-project; and the Business Investments in R&D Program (BIRD) — a $10 million total fund, up to $600,000 per sub-project (a matching grant). The project also includes the REP and PRIM programs, aimed at strengthening research-institution capacity (their sub-project amounts are announced separately).
IRA + Iran Ministry of Science and Technology
Bilateral co-funding (each country covers the costs of its own participants); no single officially announced amount was found.
Agency for Innovative Development under MHESI
Varies by project type (applied/innovative) and round — curated data suggests up to 500 million UZS per project; officially verified sources show figures ranging up to 1 billion UZS for some one-year innovative-project tracks and a combined 150 million UZS for some applied-project tracks — there is no single official figure; it depends on the specific round ("ScienceUP", "InnoPro", and others). Project duration is up to 3 years for the Science4State programme (some tracks run 1–2 years).