Acceptance of documents for the competition for funding research by young scientists under the “Zhas Galym” project for 2022-2024 is open
The Ministry of Education and Science of the Republic of Kazakhstan announces a competition for grant funding of fundamental and applied scientific research of young postdoctoral scientists under the project "Zhas Galym" for 2022-2024 in priority areas of science development according to the Tender Documentation.
The purpose of the competition is to form highly qualified and competitive researchers, attract and consolidate talented youth in science, and increase the share of young researchers.
Postdoctoral students who have a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degree/doctors in the profile or an academic degree (doctor/candidate of sciences) can participate in the competition/ obtained no earlier than 2013, or be a person who has completed the full course of a PhD program. A person who has completed the full course of the doctoral program is obliged to defend himself within 12 months from the date of the conclusion of the contract for the implementation of the project.
Also within the last 12 months postdoctoral students couldn't be a supervisor or a member of a research group in scientific and/or scientific and technical projects funded from the state budget.
Please also note that the Grant competition is provided for individual postdoctoral research with the participation of a scientific consultant.
Financing of 1 (one) project with a 28-month implementation period is no more than 19 million tenge, including: for 2022 – no more than 3 million tenge; for 2023 - no more than 8 million tenge; for 2024 - no more than 8 million tenge.
The start of accepting applications is from March 25, 2022. The deadline for submitting applications is April 20, 2022 (inclusive).
For questions of Tender documentation and registration of the application, please contact the Department of Science, Oil Building, 616 office, ext. tel. 7258, 7042.
