
The Russian Foundation for Basic Research (RFBR), together with the administrations and regional governments of the constitutive entities of the Russian Federation, in accordance with agreements made between them, does hereby declare new regional competitions to win financial support to conduct fundamental research in the following areas of knowledge:

01-mathematics, information science and mechanics;
02-physics and astronomy;
03-chemistry;
04-biology and medical science;

05-Earth sciences;

06-humanities and social sciences;

07-information technologies and computer systems;

08-fundamentals of engineering sciences.
Types of competitions

Under regional competitions will be reviewed the following types of projects:

- initiative-based research projects;

- projects for oriented (targeted) fundamental research;

- projects to organize Russian and international events within the territory of Russia, including progress-report conferences held by grant recipients (type of competition: r_g).

The main goal of such competitions is to consolidate the efforts of RFBR and constitutive entities of the Russian Federation to support fundamental research directed at solving problems of especial importance to the regions.

Projects that earlier received support from RFBR or from other foundations engaged in providing funding for fundamental scientific research in Russia will not be admitted to participate in the regional competitions; also, it will not be allowed to submit one and the same project under RFBR's general and regional competitions. Preference will be given to projects submitted from those constituent entities of the Russian Federation that act as organizers of regional competitions. A scientist or researcher who is a project manager may participate as a scientist or researcher only in one other project.

The duration of initiative-based projects will be one, two or three years; the duration of oriented fundamental research will not be more than two years.

Expeditions and field research within the territory of the Russian Federation will be held only as part of initiative-based projects (competition r_a) and will be funded from funds allocated for an initiative-based project.

Lists of supported projects will be published. RFBR funds scientific projects on a parity basis – after receipt of documents confirming the provision by a respective constitutive entity of the Russian Federation of its share of required funds. A decision to continue funding work under the project for the next year (within the limit of its specified duration) will be made based on an expert review of annual scientific and financial reports.
The RUSSIAN FAR EAST competition

RFBR - REPUBLIC OF SAKHA (YAKUTIA), KHABAROVSK KRAY, SAKHALIN OBLAST, JEWISH AUTONOMOUS AREA, and THE FAR-EASTERN DEPARTMENT OF THE RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES

Main problems which will be reflected in scientific research under the competition:

REPUBLIC OF SAKHA (YAKUTIA):

- research into space weather phenomena in the auroral and sub-auroral zones;

- the geology, geodynamics and metallogeny of the lithosphere, a scientific prediction of the presence of mineral and oil-and-gas resources in the Arctic sector of Northwestern Asia;

- research into the reaction of the cryolite zone of the Arctic Regions to climatic changes and man’s impact;

- scientific fundamentals of integrated development of the mineral resources of the cryolite zone;

- fundamental problems of increasing the durability and reliability of structures for cold climate regions and the strength of materials, including fine-dyspersated and nano-materials.

- development of new technologies for reliable and effective power- and fuel supply to the infrastructure of the Arctic Regions;

- structure and functioning of Northern eco-systems (sub-Arctic, mountainous, taiga-alas eco-systems). Mechanisms of adaptation of living organisms to the extreme conditions of a cold climate;

- theoretical foundations of nature management and of stable social-economic development of a region;

- the material and spiritual experiences of living and prospects for man’s activity under the conditions of the North.

KHABAROVSK KRAY and JEWISH AUTONOMOUS REGION:

- fuel and power industry; new energy-saving technologies and materials, non-traditional sources of energy;

- technical and technological developments in the interests of development of the main industries of the region;

- public health: development of effective methods and means for diagnostics, treatment and prevention of illnesses caused by feral-nidal and other virus-bacterial infections;

- socio-economic studies: development of cooperation with the countries of the Asia-Pacific Region, and programs for development of industries and retention of the population;

- development and introduction of new information technologies;

- rational nature management.
The CENTRAL RUSSIA competition

RFBR- the BELGOROD, VLADIMIR, VORONEZH, IVANOVO, KALUGA, KIROV, LIPETSK, ORLOV, TAMBOV, TVER and TULA regions

Main problems which will be reflected in scientific research under the competition:

BELGOROD REGION:

- fundamental problems of subsurface use, deep processing of strategically important raw materials, measures to ensure the ecological safety of industrial facilities and of the environment;

- new methods for the monitoring of environmental facilities, life support and human protection systems;

- mathematical models and databases, information systems, telecommunication and geo-information technologies to solve scientific, socio-economic, ecological problems and problems of optimum management of the region.

VLADIMIR REGION:

- modeling of socio-economic processes in the region;

- up-to-date systems for control of life cycles and information support of science-intensive production;

- oriented fundamental research on the basis of laser treatment of materials and CALS technologies;

- information system for support of scientific, research-and-production and educational processes in the region;

- monitoring of the environment and forecasting its condition in an industrially developed region using new information technologies.

VORONEZH REGION

- information-telecommunication systems;

- industry of nanosystems and materials;

- rational nature management;

- power industry and power supply.

IVANOVO REGION:

- physics and chemistry of liquid-phase and hetero-phase materials;

- scientific fundamentals of developing prospective technologies and new materials;

- scientific fundamentals of developing polymer materials and high-molecular substances;

- research into biologically active compounds, scientific fundamentals of developing new and improving existing materials and medical preparations for various uses;

- ecology and rational nature management, ecologization of the economy of Ivanovo Region, research into ecological safety problems;

- further improvement of production systems, transfer and use of various types of energy;

- physiology, immunology and human ecology under the conditions of Ivanovo Region, new methods for physico-chemical and biophysical monitoring;

- regional information and computation resources and control and management processes;

- social and economic processes in Ivanovo Region;

- safety and quality of agricultural raw materials, food products, improving the quality of life and the health of the population.

KALUGA REGION

- development of the scientific fundamentals to create new sources and converters of energy;

- a scientific basis for the creation of highly-effective technologies for production, processing and storage of agricultural produce;

- a scientific basis for the creation of highly-effective technologies and systems for feeding livestock, metabolism and productivity regulation;

- development of the scientific fundamentals to create new sources and converters of energy;

- development of a scientific basis to create and improve further available materials and radiopharmaceuticals for various uses;

- impact of ionizing and non-ionizing radiation on the environment, man and animals;

- development of a new method of radiological diagnostics, radio-therapy, prevention and treatment of radiation damage;

- theoretical substantiation of new orientations in the creation of biologically active substances and medications;

- a scientific basis for exploration, development and effective use of mineral- and raw-material resources of Kaluga Region;

- fundamental research into ensuring ecological safety of Kaluga Region.

KIROV REGION:

- inorganic chemistry;

- physical chemistry;

- fundamental problems of developing new materials;

- physico-chemical biology.

LIPETSK REGION:

- mathematical and information support to automated systems, systems with distributed parameters, dynamic systems;

- fundamental problems of effective metallurgical and machine-building technologies;

- physico-chemical fundamentals under new methods for analysis and synthesis of materials with input properties, time-varying processes, biologically active compounds.

- development of new methods for optimization of dynamics and energy-saving in complex electromechanical systems and electro-technical integrated systems;

- energy requirements during high-temperature processes;

- controlled electromagnetic and thermo-electronic processes in non-linear media;

- modern socio-cultural and economic foundations for the development of the region.

ORLOV REGION:

- mathematical models, databases, information systems, telecommunication and geo-information technologies to solve scientific, socio-technical, socio-economic, ecological problems and problems of optimum management of the region.

- basic research into the industry and agricultural-industrial complex;

- a physical-technical basis for power engineering and alternative (non-traditional) sources of energy;

- physics, chemistry, mechanics of new materials, technologies and structures;

- educational and scientific-and-technical information systems;

- safety and quality of agricultural raw materials, food products, improving the quality of life and the health of the population;

- a scientific basis for the creation of highly-effective technologies for production, processing and keeping of agricultural produce;

- integrated analysis of the natural-and-resource potential and development of problems for ecological safety.

TVER REGION:

- fundamental research into ensuring the ecological safety of the region.

- mathematical models and systems to forecast the environment;

- fundamental problems of physical and chemical kinetics;

- a physico-chemical basis for new technologies;

- a scientific basis for the creation and development of new information technologies;

- fundamental requirements for stable social-economic development of the region;

- modeling of economic systems and models of stable regional development.

TULA REGION:

- a scientific basis for exploration and development of mineral deposits;

- information-telecommunication resources;

- scientific fundamentals of developing polymer materials and composite compounds;

- a scientific basis for the creation of highly-effective biotechnologies as regards production, processing and storage of agricultural produce;

- development of methods for mathematical modeling and description of different processes and facilities;

- processes for the synthesis and structure formation of multiphase organic systems in deep integrated processing of natural and man-made materials;

- research into the general mechanisms of the functioning and development of machine-building processes;

- research into the properties of various materials.
The SOUTH OF RUSSIA competition

RFBR – KRASNODAR KRAY, KABARDINO-BALKARIA, REPUBLIC OF DAGESTAN, REPUBLIC OF NORTH OSETIA-ALANIA and ROSTOV REGION

Main problems which will be reflected in scientific research under the SOUTH OF RUSSIA competition:

KRASNODAR KRAY:

- problems of research conducted with the financial support of the Department for Agriculture and Processing Industry of Krasnodar Kray.

- fundamental problems of plant-growing;

- fundamental problems of livestock-raising;

- economics and social problems of the agricultural-industrial complex;

- a theoretical basis of storage and processing of agricultural produce;

- fundamentals of developing the technical means of the agricultural and industrial complex. Problems of research conducted with the financial support of organizations with various forms of ownership of Krasnodar Kray.

- fundamental problems of creating methods for active monitoring of seismic conditions within the territory of Krasnodar Kray;

- development of integrated methods, including vibroseis methods, to estimate the conditions of buildings and structures, including ageing buildings and structures;

- fundamental problems of an integrated search for a wide range of mineral deposits;

- fundamental problems of creating pure materials and substances;

- fundamental problems of assessing the condition of the environment;

- fundamental problems of reducing the risks of natural and man-made catastrophes;

- development of methods to solve differential and integral equations applicable to geoinformation-system technologies;

- prediction and modeling of contingencies and liquidation of their consequences during offshore drilling;

- fundamental problems of developing sea carbohydrate deposits at low temperatures under the conditions of the Sea of Azov;

- problems of ecological rehabilitation of natural environments during exploration and production drilling;

- fundamental problems of the technology of drilling exploration wells offshore in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea;

- development of automatic and express methods for control of the quality of natural environments;

- fundamentals of technical solutions ensuring "zero discharge" when drilling offshore;

- maintenance of bio-diversity and problems of reproduction of bio-resources in the Azov-Black-Sea basis;

- problems of preserving the recreational potential and cultural-historic heritage during development of carbohydrate deposits;

- fundamental problems of the stable development of the region's economy;

- problems of development and use of the region’s tourism and recreation potential.

- fundamental problems of brain research, neurophysiologic mechanisms of movements;

- modeling of the region’s ecological-and-economic environment;

- medico-ecological safety and de-toxic rehabilitation of the region’s population;

- mechanisms to raise the investment attractiveness of the branches of the region's economy;

- a theoretical basis of systemic analysis, taking into consideration information security factors, development of methods and means ensuring monitoring and assessment of the region’s security;

- systemic research into critical energy facilities involved in maintaining the region's energy-balance, allowing for uncertainty factors;

- a fundamental basis of technical solutions to develop new electrodes for the welding of trunk pipelines;

- research into ionizing processes with a view to intensify the welding process;

- ecological aspects of welding and welding work.

KABARDINO-BALKARIAN REPUBLIC

- research into the geo-dynamics, seismicity and geo-chemistry of the region, impact of these factors on the stable development of man's activity;

- research into the anthropogenic pollution of the environment in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, geo-chemical and biological monitoring;

- studies of the present condition of the region’s eco-systems and mechanisms of their operation using methods of physics, chemistry, biology and applied mathematics;

- studies of the geographical peculiarities and the dynamics of changes in natural systems and landscapes, geo-chemical and radiochemical characteristics of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic;

- research into the region’s geological history, deep structure, magmatism, formation of its sedimentary structure;

- research into the links of the region’s ecosystem with its catchment basin, the upper and lower atmospheres in the past and the present;

- research into the physics of inter-phase phenomena and processes of the interaction of particle flows with substances;

- studies of the physics of the atmosphere and the near-Earth space environment;

- studies of problems of physical science of materials and development of new methods of research into nano-particles, nanostructures and nanocomposites; nanodiagnostics;

- research into direction synthesis and extraction of chemical compounds, polymers with unique properties and special-purpose substances;

- study of problems of the chemistry of the solid, liquid melts, solutions, phase equilibriums; research into the high-temperature processes in chemistry and study of materials;

- production, stabilization and studies of nano-particles, nano-tubes, nano-crystal functional, construction, polymer materials and nano-composites;

- studies of new methods for analysis of chemical substances and materials;

- studies of new metal, polymer, construction and composite materials, construction ceramics;

- development of a methodology for a balanced use of the natural resources of the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic;

- research into the bio-diversity of the Central Caucasus; composition, structure, dynamics, ecology, security, rational use;

- studies of non-classical regional tasks for differential equations and their application to environmental protection;

- modeling of stable regional development;

- studies of mathematical models of the dynamics of the age structure of the population and their application to biology and medicine;

- studies of mathematical and information-logical models and their computer support;

- research into algebraic structures and their applied uses.

REPUBLIC OF DAGESTAN

- physical properties of condensed media and development of principles to create solid-state new-generation electronic devices;

- physico-technical problems of machine-building;

- research into the geological structure, geodynamics and patterns of deposition and location of Dagestan's mineral recourses;

- research into the physical-technical fundamentals of using geothermal energy, and integrated use of geothermal resources;

- the study of Dagestan’s flora and fauna and of the bio-diversity of the Caspian Sea;

- research into the history, languages, literature and traditional arts of Dagestan's peoples in the recent past;

- study of modern ethno-political processes in the Republic of Dagestan;

- development of a material-technical basis for and an electronic database of fundamental research in the interests of scientific and research institutions of the Far-Eastern Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences;

- research into the region's socio-economic problems and location of productive forces;

- information-computation and geoinformation-system technologies, computer networks, databases and telecommunications.
The SAINT-PETERSBURG competition

RFBR and the CITY GOVERNMENT of SAINT-PETERSBURG
Main problems which will be reflected in scientific research under the competition funded by the City Government of Saint-Petersburg.

- mathematical modeling and management of traffic flows;

- logistics of a megapolis;

- ecology and waste treatment.
The ORENBURG Competition

RFBR and ORENBURG REGION
The AGIDEL Competition

RFBR and THE GOVERNMENT OF THE REPUBLIC OF BASHKORTOSTAN (with the financial support of organizations with various forms of ownership).

A full text of the announcement is available to view at www.rfbr.ru