Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan
A final-two-year bachelor's student in a visual/applied arts programme (painting, graphics and miniature, sculpture, applied art, design, art history and museology) receives a monthly named state scholarship of 1,461,028 soʻm (one per field).
10–20 months
Annual
Bachelor
A final-two-year bachelor's student in a visual/applied arts programme (painting, graphics and miniature, sculpture, applied art, design, art history and museology) receives a monthly named state scholarship of 1,461,028 soʻm (one per field).
Open only to Uzbekistan-citizen bachelor's students in their final two years at state HEIs, studying one of seven designated visual/applied-arts specialities, with an excellent record, selected via a competition run by the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan. A domestic programme.
Uzbekistan citizens only
Annual
The competition run by the Academy of Arts of Uzbekistan is organised annually (typically spring-summer); winners receive the scholarship from 1 September of the new academic year.
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).
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.
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).
Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Innovation of the Republic of Uzbekistan
The scholarship is paid at 1,607,130 soʻm per month (raised 10% from the 2025/2026 academic year). Recipients are awarded a certificate as "Holder of the Islam Karimov State Scholarship."