The National Research Foundation of Ukraine (NRFU) announces a competition for projects on conducting scientific research "Applied Science for the Resilience and Recovery of Ukraine".
The competition aims to create science-intensive and competitive scientific and technical products with high potential added value and/or social significance, which can be implemented in production, social sphere, etc.
Thematic directions of the Competition: applied scientific research or scientific and technical (experimental) developments aimed at producing scientifically based solutions to strengthen the resilience of Ukraine (priority areas defined by items 1, 3-7 of Article 3 of the Law of Ukraine "On Priority Directions of Science and Technology Development").
The project must correspond to one of the following thematic directions:
- new technologies, materials, and engineering solutions to ensure the resilience and recovery of industrial and technological systems and the functioning of new sectors of Ukraine's economy;
- information, digital, and mathematical methods for modeling, optimizing, and managing processes under conditions of limited resources and increased risks;
- environmental safety and innovative technologies for the preservation, restoration, and balanced use of natural resources;
- biomedical technologies, medical engineering, and rehabilitation systems;
- new or significantly improved socio-economic, organizational-managerial, institutional and service solutions, models, systems, methodologies, and digital tools to ensure the resilience, recovery, and development of Ukraine;
- counteracting disinformation and manipulation in the information space and cultural discourse aimed at strengthening Ukraine’s informational, cultural, and communicative security.
Duration of project implementation selected based on the Competition results: up to 2 years;
Total funding volume for projects selected based on the Competition results: up to UAH 310.8 million (in 2027 – up to UAH 160.8 million, in 2028 – up to UAH 150.0 million)
Start date and time for submitting applications to the Competition: April 10, 2026;
Deadline for submitting applications: May 11, 2026;
Deadlines for conducting scientific and scientific-technical expertise and summarizing the Competition results: by December 15, 2026 (tentatively).
Competition selection conditions along with requirements for participants, scientific supervisors, and project executors, criteria for project selection, numerical evaluation of projects, details on the procedure for preliminary review, conducting scientific and scientific-technical expertise, and summarizing the Competition results, list of documents submitted by participants with the application, and grounds for rejecting applications on formal grounds are available at the link (Competition Conditions).
Full announcement text on the NRFU website
According to NRFU information