Grants for additional education. Competition of presidential grants for educational projects

Those who decide to devote their lives to science have recently been able to count on financial support. Financial assistance and grants are provided by government agencies, private charitable foundations and large companies interested in obtaining specialists of a high level of education in a particular field of science or production. Grants 2017 will be received by young people who win qualifying competitions announced this year. Funding covers various areas of development - humanitarian, research, medical, environmental issues, art, culture.

Grants and competitions 2017

Foreign research centers interested in attracting talented young people from all over the world to the country annually hold competitive selections. In particular, the German academic service DAAD, which unites 238 universities in its country, is conducting selections under the “Immanuel Kant” program in 2017. Every year, this organization provides scholarships for the duration of their studies to about 100 thousand students from around the world. Grants 2017 will be allocated to candidates from Russia who win the competition at the Moscow representative office of DAAD. What is the interest of the German exchange service?

• Obtaining elite specialists to work in universities and scientific organizations in Germany;
• internationalization of scientific centers;
• showing interest in German culture and language;
• obtaining fresh, out-of-the-box thinking to accelerate the pace of progress and development.

And a counter question immediately arises: what will Russian science get from this? – Postgraduate students and teachers, undergoing internships in German educational and research centers, will accumulate experience and knowledge that will become a significant part of a scientific project or dissertation. In addition, joint training in close contact with colleagues from all over the world will ensure further cooperation between scientists in various fields of economic, humanitarian, social, and legal areas.

Educational grants 2016-2017 under the “Immanuel Kant” program are designed for 3 and 6 months, valid only for undergraduate and graduate students of universities. Scholarships ranging from 1 to 2 thousand euros are paid jointly by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation and DAAD. Applicants are required to speak German and English at the communication level.

Competitions have been announced for the Fulbright program for 2016-2017, which awards grants in the following areas:

• “Master’s degree and internship in the USA” (for graduates of Russian universities and graduate students up to 30 years old, training is conducted in all subjects);
• “For young teachers of English” - FLTA (for teaching Russian language and culture in colleges and universities in America, applicants age 21-29 years);
• “For university teachers” - FFDP (for the development of training courses and their further implementation in Russian universities, age - up to 39 years);
• “For scientists and artists” - VS (lectures, scientific research, holding master classes in the USA).

These and many other grants for universities allow Russian graduates and postgraduates to receive additional education and internships at leading Universities in England, Belgium, France and provide the opportunity to further engage in scientific activities.

Grants 2016-2017 Russia

The government of our country has a Grants Council created to support young scientists. Every year they are provided with financial assistance in several areas:

• NK - scientific schools of the Russian Federation;
• MK - young candidates of science;
• MD - young doctors of science.

Scientific schools are teams of researchers working on a current topic in a priority industry; they include young researchers, and in parallel, scientific training is carried out. Presidential grants 2017 are allocated for 2 years and are intended for research in the field of science and the development of new technologies.

The essay competition “Unity and Difference” is of great interest to high school students and 1st-3rd year students of Russian universities; its founders are the RELOD company together with the University of Oxford. Contestants write an essay in English, and the main prize after summing up the results is free education at one of the best language schools.

Presidential Grants for NGOs 2017 is a project that helps support non-profit, non-governmental organizations that are actively working to protect human rights. Volunteers, youth sports organizations, youth and children's creativity centers receive funding in this area.

Much attention in the country is paid to education, which, as is known, begins from school. The Teacher of Russia program invites graduates to try themselves in the teaching field. Grants for teachers 2016-2017 help attract the best young specialists who are able to find a creative approach to teaching and demonstrate their leadership skills to work as teachers in a regular school. Over the course of 2 years, talented beginning teachers not only show an extraordinary approach to teaching, but also improve their knowledge with the best teachers in the country, through business coaches, seminars, and consultations. At the end of the two years of work, they receive a certificate of completion of the program, which gives them an advantage in choosing their future path.

Grants in the field of culture 2017 are aimed at developing the creativity of children and youth. All kinds of talent competitions held in the country invariably entail considerable expenses, which include: organizing the venue, teachers preparing performances, jury members consisting of high-class professionals. Thanks to financing, it becomes possible to purchase valuable prizes and gifts for participants.

All competitions and grants 2016-2017 in Russia are aimed at the development of science, education, and culture. The country is interested in the emergence of young talented people and creates the most favorable opportunities for scientific research and creativity (read about this on the website, article). Getting young people interested in promising, prestigious jobs and providing them with a decent salary are the right steps to success. Working for the good of your country, and not striving to break out abroad, should become a personal desire for the best part of our youth.

We have collected the best grant programs of international and domestic organizations in which Russian teachers can participate. All programs are open, you can submit your application now. Just remember to carefully study the terms of participation.

TEA Teaching Excellence Program

Time and duration: spring/autumn 2017, 6 weeks

Advanced training program for secondary school teachers from 55 countries, including Russia.

The Teaching Excellence and Achievement Program (TEA) is offered annually. 170 participants who have passed all stages of selection will visit the United States in two groups in the spring or fall. The program is organized by the International Research and Exchange Council (IREX), and financial support is provided by the Division of Educational and Cultural Programs of the US State Department.

During an intensive six-week professional internship at a US university, program participants will undergo: - a specialized course in pedagogy and in their subject area;
- specialized course on technologies for teaching the subject;
- internship in an American high school;
and will also take part in extracurricular activities of the host schools.

The program is open to all teachers who have at least 5 years of professional experience and teach the following disciplines in secondary schools in Russia:

• English language;
• Social disciplines;
• Natural Sciences;
• Mathematics;
• Special (correctional) education in the specified disciplines.

Candidates must be Russian citizens, have a good knowledge of English (at least 450 TOEFL scores) and have the intention of teaching in a secondary school after completing the program.

The selection of participants is carried out in 2 stages: semi-finalists are interviewed in Moscow and take an English language exam, finalists are approved by IREX no later than October 2016. The internship is fully paid for by the organizer, including travel, housing and daily expenses.

Fulbright Program for University Teachers

Fulbright Faculty Development Program (FFDP) grants are provided on a competitive basis for the development of a new or improvement of an existing educational course for a Russian university within the framework of the declared discipline.

Grants are issued to university teachers no older than 39 years of age. The finalists of the competition will fly to the USA as a group in August 2017.

The program begins with a three-day workshop that will explore the theoretical aspects and methodologies of course development in the United States. After the seminar, all participants go to US universities, which are selected for each finalist taking into account the declared discipline.

Upon completion of the program, each participant must present a course proposal at a capstone workshop to be held in mid-January 2018 at the Institute of International Education in New York.

To participate in the competition, you must speak English at a good level (at least 80 points on ibtTOEFL) and have at least 3 years of continuous teaching experience at a university. Recruitment of participants is carried out in two stages.

Fulbright Young Teachers of English Program

The main goal of the program is to improve teaching skills and cultural exchange between the United States and other countries.

Its participants will be assigned to universities and colleges in the United States to work as teachers or assistant teachers of the Russian language.

Activities provided within the program:
- teaching the Russian language and culture of your country up to 20 hours a week;
- studying at least two subjects per semester, one of which must be related to the U.S. Studies (American Studies), and others must be related to the specialty “teaching English”;
- joint conferences and seminars for the exchange of experience.

The program begins in August with a mandatory one-week orientation in the United States. After this, the participants go to the universities and colleges where they were assigned.

Participants will be required to actively interact with representatives of the local community: organize speaking groups, language clubs, conduct extracurricular activities and round tables to familiarize the audience with the culture and traditions of their country.

Program participants must work as English teachers or be studying at a higher education institution in their final years as an English teacher.

Grants from the Russkiy Mir Foundation

Applications are accepted without date restrictions

The Russian Foundation, established in 2007, annually distributes grants for the implementation of projects aimed at studying and popularizing the Russian language and culture.

Funds are provided on a competitive basis to Russian and foreign non-profit organizations, as well as to individual citizens or even stateless persons.

The following target areas are provided:
- Russian language training;
- advanced training and retraining of teachers of Russian language and literature;
- creation of new educational and methodological complexes, teaching aids, textbooks and other publications to help teachers of the Russian language and literature studying the Russian language;
- development of multimedia educational resources and distance learning systems for Russian language and literature;
- establishment and support of the activities of Russian-language schools;
- holding olympiads and competitions in Russian language and literature, conducting linguistic research, forums, conferences, events, organizing media projects, etc.

The main condition for receiving a grant is the practical feasibility and social significance of the project. The amount of funding and duration are not regulated, but these conditions must be carefully justified in the application.

Prizes of the Government of St. Petersburg in the field of higher and secondary vocational education

The competition, established this year, is aimed at developing the educational potential of St. Petersburg and creating effective teaching technologies.

The project provides for the presentation of twenty annual awards in the amount of 300,000 rubles each.

Prizes are awarded in the following categories:
- development of innovative activities in an educational institution;
- organizational decisions to improve the quality of specialist training;
- scientific achievements that contribute to improving the quality of training of specialists and highly qualified personnel;
- educational and methodological support of the educational process, aimed at improving the quality of training of specialists;
- in the field of integration of education, science and industry;
- in the field of educational work with students, development of their professional skills;
- for special success in the field of training creative workers for cultural and art organizations.

The competition is open to citizens of the Russian Federation from among employees of educational and scientific organizations, industrial enterprises, innovation and technology centers and technology parks located in St. Petersburg, as well as teams of authors of up to 3 people.

An all-Russian competition of presidential grants for educational projects has been announced. Deadlines by stage: May 19, 2016, July 7, 2016, September 8, 2016, October 27, 2016.

Organizer: All-Russian public organization “Russian Union of Rectors” in accordance with the Order of the President of the Russian Federation No. 68-rp dated April 05, 2016 “On ensuring in 2016 state support for non-profit non-governmental organizations participating in the development of civil society institutions and implementing socially significant projects and projects in the field of protection of human and civil rights and freedoms.”

Subject of the grant:

• implementation of projects in the field of education (including additional vocational education);
• carrying out educational work and disseminating scientific knowledge;
• promoting the spread of distance learning;
• preservation and popularization of the historical heritage of Russia;
• implementation of projects in the field of study and popularization of the Russian language and literature;
• research and monitoring of the state of civil society

The main criteria for determining the winners of the competition are:

• compliance of the project with the goals and conditions of the Competition;
• relevance and social significance of the project;
• detailed design of the project, incl. compliance of project activities with its goals and objectives, optimal mechanisms for its implementation;
• specificity, significance and achievability of project results;
• the realism and validity of the presented project budget (including the validity of costs in terms of the volume of activities and
• expected results of the project; compliance of expense items with the proposed project activities);
• the applicant has experience in implementing similar projects (in terms of direction and scale);
• availability of qualified specialists who are planned to be involved in the implementation of the project;
• availability of additional sources of financing;
• territorial scope of the project;
• availability of mechanisms to ensure sustainability and development of project results.

Contacts: Directorate of Grant Programs of the Russian Union of Rectors. Address: 125009, Moscow, Romanov lane, building 4. Metro “Arbatskaya”, “Lenin Library”, “Borovitskaya”, “Okhotny Ryad”. Contact phone: 8 499-220-12-40. Email: [email protected]

The presidential grants competition in 2018 starts on February 15. The dates for the competitions were outlined by the head of the Presidential Grants Fund, Ilya Chukalin, at the opening of the “Good People” festival of the Public Chamber of the Russian Federation.

Applications will be accepted for one and a half months - until March 31, 2018, and the winners will be announced on June 15. The start of accepting projects for the second competition is scheduled for August 15, the end of acceptance is September 28. The winners will be announced on November 30th.

Let us remind you that projects of non-profit non-governmental organizations can be submitted to the competition, providing for activities in the following areas:
social services, social support and protection of citizens;
protecting the health of citizens, promoting a healthy lifestyle;
support for family, motherhood, fatherhood and childhood;
support for youth projects, the implementation of which covers the types of activities provided for in Article 31.1 of the Federal Law of January 12, 1996 No. 7-FZ “On Non-Profit Organizations”;
support for projects in the field of science, education, enlightenment;
support for projects in the field of culture and art;
preservation of historical memory;
protection of human and civil rights and freedoms, including protection of the rights of prisoners;
environmental protection and animal welfare;
strengthening interethnic and interreligious harmony;
development of public diplomacy and support of compatriots;
development of civil society institutions.

Competition - for non-governmental organizations

Can participate in the competition non-profit non-governmental organizations that meet all of the following requirements:
1) the organization is registered no later than one year before the closing date for accepting applications for participation in the competition, and if the organization requests a grant in the amount of up to five hundred thousand rubles - no later than six months before the closing date for accepting applications for participation in the competition;
2) the organization carries out, in accordance with the charter, one or more types of activities corresponding to the areas specified in paragraph 4 of these regulations;
3) the organization is not in the process of liquidation, insolvency (bankruptcy) proceedings have not been initiated against it, and the organization’s activities have not been suspended in the manner prescribed by law;
4) the organization has no overdue debts on taxes, fees and other obligatory payments to the budgets of the budget system of the Russian Federation, the due date for which has come in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation (except for amounts for which there is a court decision that has entered into legal force recognizing the obligation organizations for the payment of these amounts are executed or which are recognized as hopeless for collection in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation on taxes and fees). An organization is recognized as meeting the established requirement if it has filed an application to appeal the specified debt in the prescribed manner and a decision on such an application has not been made on the date the organization submitted an application for participation in the competition.

Information on the results of 2017

In total, there were 3,213 winners in 2017, which is more than twice the number of winners of all competitions in 2016 across all grant operators (1,581 winners). The total amount of grants distributed in 2017 is 6,653.8 million rubles.

The register of winning projects has been published on competition website.

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