The third stage of the University Start-Up programme organised by the Fund for Innovations within University Technological Entrepreneurship Platform federal project started in late January. In 2023, 1,500 Russian students can count on a grant of a million rubles. Students from 78 regions of Russia applied for the first two stages of the programme. A billion rubles was allocated to support thousands of projects.

The status of student (Bachelor and Master’s degrees, postgraduate studies) remains the main requirement for applicants. The key condition for the project is that it must be an idea based on one’s own developments and a student’s research or on existing developments containing the applicant’s intellectual contribution

Projects in digital technologies, medicine, chemical technologies, the development of new devices and intellectual production technologies, biotechnologies, energy saving and creative industries can get the funding.

The University Start-Up programme is aimed to include 30,000 technological entrepreneurs from universities to the economy by 2030.