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ADVANCE Research Grants
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ADVANCE Research Grants

Unprecedented platform to bring the top-notch expertise in the targeted STEM-related fields in Armenia.

The ADVANCE Research Grants program, established in 2020, is one of our core initiatives aimed at fostering the development of scientific directions in STEM-related fields in Armenia. Over the past four years, this innovative framework has proven successful, generating significant impact. Starting in January 2025, the program continues under the funding and administration of the Higher Education and Science Committee of the Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports of the Republic of Armenia. 

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Local Researchers Funded
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About the Program
Pioneering Platform
ADVANCE invited distinguished scientists from all around the world to lead new teams of ambitious Armenian researchers. The experience and network these emerging Armenian researchers gained in the program enabled effective global collaboration, and significantly increased research output in target fields. The comprehensive financial and logistical support provided by FAST and its partners worked toward putting Armenia on the map of cutting-edge scientific research worldwide.
Granting Scheme
The grant includes the following budget lines: PI’s travel expenses and coverage of expenses during their visit to Armenia, Grants for the local researchers, International travel costs for the local researchers’ participation in the conferences, collaborative research activities abroad, or other capacity-building events, Laboratory materials, consumables, Publications in journals and, if applicable, patenting costs.
Grant Amount
$65,000 - 125,000 per project per year, Grants for the local researchers and students - 300 to 1200 USD monthly, International travel, Capacity building activities - 15,000 USD, Laboratory supporting materials - up to 25,000 USD, International Principal Investigator’s travel expenses and honorarium - honorarium of 3,000 USD per visit (twice a year)
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Major Milestones and Results of the Program
Since 2020, the Program saw 9 groundbreaking research projects formed under the leadership of prominent STEM scientists from Belgium, Chile, France, Germany, USA. Two projects: Machine Learning and Biotechnology successfully concluded their 4-year journey in September 2024. 88 researchers benefitted. 6 local institutions expanded their research laboratories by hosting the research teams. 30 publications have been made in top scientific journals so far. Dozens of academic courses were conducted by the Principal Investigators for the local academic community, involving 770 beneficiaries.
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Research projects

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Bioinformatics
The research project aims to develop vine bioinformatics - grape genomics for innovative viticulture.
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Computer Vision
A research project on novel deep neural networks for inspection of solar panel anomalies using multimodal images/videos and more.
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Drug Discovery
A research project on new drug design technologies through both computational and experimental techniques.
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Biotechnology
The research project aims to develop vine bioinformatics – grape genomics for innovative viticulture.
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Data Science
The research project develops new Machine Learning models implementing supervised and unsupervised learning with high accuracy, interpretability and robustness.
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Machine Learning
A fundamental research project on the statistical analysis of machine learning algorithms.
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Materials Science
The research project aims to develop a novel energy-efficient tunable method for fabrication of nanomaterials: biomedical and energy storage application.
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Radiobiology
The aim of this project is to utilize murine models to assess space and terrestrial ionizing radiation effects on clonal hematopoiesis during the murine lifetime and determine how this may influence degenerative cardiovascular disease, hematologic malignancy, and solid organ cancer risks.
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Mathematical Analysis
It is the broad objective of the present research project to develop new ideas and methods to deal with partial differential equations (PDEs) with strong singularities.
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