Component 1. Development of the Knowledge Base for Innovation.

The component aims at promoting high-quality, nationally relevant research and development and advanced human capital activities and deal flow for Component 2 – Innovation Consortia and Component 3 – Consolidation of the Technology Commercialization Cycle.

Sub-component 1.1 - Grants for Senior Scientist Groups and Junior Researcher Groups.

The purpose of the SSG and JRG Grant Program is to support multidisciplinary teams of Kazakhstani scientists and businesspersons in the commercialization of promising R&D results of scientific research institutes, universities and other institutions or groups engaged in scientific and scientific-technical activity in the Republic of Kazakhstan. The program aims to stimulate the domestic scientists’ research and development in priority directions of science, focused on strengthening ties with the production, local and global markets.

Types and maximum amount of the grant:

-SSG Grant: 230 000 000 (two hundred thirty million) tenge;

-JRG Grant: 180 000 000 (one hundred eighty million) tenge.

The amount of funding for each group will vary depending on the volume of envisaged work and features of the research work. The amount of the requested funding will be justified and defended in front of the ISCB in the form of presentations. Groups will receive funding for a period of up to three years, conditional on the successful completion of agreed implementation stages.

Sub-component 1.2. PhD Research and Training Grants. 

This sub-component is aimed at applying the potential of the world's leading educational, scientific and production organizations in the development of industrial and innovative potential of the Republic of Kazakhstan in the area of training, professional development and retraining, as well as joint scientific research, introduction of scientific developments to the industry.