Lifecycle: { "status": "closed", "edition": "2026–2028", "cadence": "periodic multi-year national calls", "duration": "2026–2028", "renewable": false, "dates": { "opens": "2025-12-10", "deadline": "2026-01-10" } } Funding and benefits: { "amount": { "maximum": 250000000, "currency": "KZT", "scope": "per project", "annual_caps": { "2026": 82500000, "2027": 85000000, "2028": 82500000 } }, "award_count": null, "total_pool": { "value": 9000000000, "currency": "KZT", "annual": 3000000000 }, "benefits": [ "multi-year commercialization grant" ] } Eligibility and filters: { "citizenship": "project and entity conditions governed by Kazakhstan call documentation", "residence": "Kazakhstan legal-entity implementation route", "age": null, "applicant_type": [ "existing Kazakhstan legal entity", "startup legal entity created after selection" ], "education": null, "experience": "rights to eligible scientific or technical results and capacity to commercialize", "fields": [ "agriculture", "mining and materials", "energy", "engineering and robotics", "health and biotechnology", "ICT, AI and cybersecurity", "space", "water and ecology", "education", "tourism" ], "institution": null, "language": "Kazakh/Russian official application system", "location": "Kazakhstan", "remote": false, "route": "electronic application through the NCSTE system", "exclusions": [ "projects without eligible R&D results or applicable intellectual-property rights" ] } Application: { "opens": "2025-12-10", "deadline": "2026-01-10", "decision": null, "start": 2026, "end": 2028, "url": "https://www.ncste.kz/kd-2026-2028-rus.-12-12-2025-13-14-24.pdf", "materials": [ "electronic grant application", "commercialization plan", "budget by year", "evidence of rights to R&D results", "team and legal-entity documentation", "co-financing and due-diligence materials where applicable" ], "selection_stages": [ "submission", "formal compliance review", "scientific/commercial evaluation", "National Scientific Council decision", "grant agreement and monitoring" ] } Past editions and people: { "people": { "program_leaders": [], "latest_recipients": [], "past_recipients": [ "Trenco R&D / Asia Trafo", "Kozhabekova Gulzhan Torebekovna", "Daniyar Akhmetov / LMB2022 LLP" ], "coverage": "Examples from official Science Fund case records for earlier commercialization cohorts, not 2026–2028 winners." }, "history": { "launched": null, "editions": [ { "year": "2022–2024", "selected_projects": 72 }, { "year": 2023, "projects_in_2025_portfolio": 67 }, { "year": 2024, "projects_in_2025_portfolio": 73 }, { "year": 2025, "projects_in_2025_portfolio": 65 }, { "year": "2026–2028", "pool_kzt": 9000000000 } ], "statistics": [ "205 commercialization projects from the 2023, 2024 and 2025 competitions were in implementation during 2025", "2025 sales from knowledge-intensive products reached KZT 15.9 billion" ] } } Known evidence gaps: [ "2026–2028 decision date", "2026–2028 award count and recipients", "program launch year" ] Source conflicts: []