The projects to be funded by this Call should be carried out by the most active, promising, and productive scientists who have:
(1) significant experience in conducting basic and applied research in various fields of science;
(2) the ability and motivation to work according to the best international standards, as well as to create and develop leading research teams.
The Call is also aimed at solving the following unique tasks:
(1) creation, functioning and ensuring the development of infrastructure centers for solving multidisciplinary problems;
(2) involvement of commercial structures for the implementation of knowledge-intensive products;
(3) avoiding fragmentation of research and duplicative use of funds;
(4) combining complementary expertise;
(5) preparing the support base for leading teams of Ukrainian scientists, as well as raising their scientific rating to the highest international standards for their further participation in the most prestigious European and global calls for research projects;
(6) preparing the support base of leading teams of Ukrainian scientists, as well as improving their scientific and administrative competence in order to create state key laboratories in the future;
(7) consolidation of research communities around leading teams.
Project topics must correspond at least one of the priority areas of science and technology development (in accordance with Article 3 of the Law of Ukraine “On Priority Areas of Science and Technology Development”). The application for grant support submitted to the Call must correspond one of the following thematic areas:
- Basic research in the field of natural sciences and mathematics.
- Basic research in the field of life sciences.
- Applied research aimed at creating technologies (including IT) and products based on the latest achievements of basic research.
- Fundamental socio-humanitarian research on the most urgent challenges of our time.
- Multidisciplinary research.
The terms and conditions of the Call are available at: “Infrastructures for advanced research“