Agency for Innovative Development, Youth Affairs Agency, and the Ulugʻbek Foundation
This is not a financial grant but a one-time cash-prize system: winners of the republican stage (stage 3) receive a cash prize of 20 times the base calculation amount, of the regional stage (stage 2) — 10 times, and of the district/city stage (stage 1) — 5 times the base calculation amount, plus a diploma.
Open to citizens of Uzbekistan aged 16–25 — being a student or master's degree candidate is not required; the competition is open to talented youth at any education level, including from remote regions. The field is unrestricted — applicants must have a scientific/innovative project or development in IT, agriculture, engineering, medicine, or other areas. Participation at the district stage requires an IQ-test score of at least 110 points.
Uzbekistan citizens only
Register on the vorislar.uz website or the Ulugʻbek Foundation's Telegram channel, take the IQ test (minimum 110 points for the district stage), then submit your scientific/innovative project.
Annual
A three-stage competition: district/city (February–March) → regional (March–April) → republic final (May, 100 winners). The 2026 cycle ran February–May; documents were accepted until February 28, 13:00 (this stage has now closed). Dates for the next (2027) cycle have not yet been announced.
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).