Acceptance of applications for participation in the Republican Contest of Innovation Projects 2025 has started

The State Committee for Science and Technology of the Republic of Belarus with the participation of the Ministry of Education of the Republic of Belarus, the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus, the NGO “Belarusian Republican Youth Union”, and the Belarusian Innovation Fund holds the XVI Republican Contest of Innovation Projects.

The contest considers innovative projects of various stages of implementation with commercialization strategy, corresponding to the priority directions of scientific, scientific-technical and innovative activities. In 2025, innovative projects that have previously participated in the contest are allowed to be submitted.

The contest is held in the nominations “Best Innovation Project” and “Best Youth Innovation Project”. The number of organizations offering additional nominations will also increase. In 2024, there were 29 additional nominations from 18 organizations. In 2025, the number of organizations increased to 22.

The application form for participation in the Republican Contest of Innovation Projects must be filled out by August 1, 2025.

After the absentee selection of applications, the authors of the 40 best developments will take part in the final stage of project defense. In 2025, the approach to determining the winners of the competition changed. While previously it was envisaged that there would be one winner and the rest prize winners, now there will be 1st, 2nd, 3rd degree winners. In addition, the directions for the use of money allocated for the commercialization of projects have been supplemented.

To prepare the contest participants for the consideration and defense of innovative projects, training seminars will be held with the involvement of leading Belarusian specialists in innovation and venture activity, business planning.

The Republican Contest of Innovative Projects makes an important contribution to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals 9, 10, 11 and the other SDGs by the Republic of Belarus.