OREANDA-NEWS. August 31, 2012. The Government adopted a decree "On the establishment of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine grants for teams of young scientists to carry out applied research and scientific and technological development in priority areas of science and technology", which will take in effect from 1 January 2013.

The specificity of the above grants is that they will be available not for the existing achievements, but for promising high-tech projects selected on a competitive basis. The annual observance of the competition projects of applied research and scientific and technological development in priority areas of science and engineering teams of young scientists will provide by the State Agency on Science, Innovations and Informatization.

The selected projects will be implemented on the material and technical basis of the existing research institutions and universities, and the funds will be targeted.

The establishment of government grants will allow prospective Ukrainian scientists to realize professionally at home - namely, allowing them back in a fairly young age to form their own schools and their own laboratories.