The Executive Order is signed in order to increase state support for students, cadets, and trainees studying under higher education programmes in specialties or areas of training that correspond to the priorities of scientific and technological development of the Russian Federation specified in the Scientific and Technological Development Strategy of the Russian Federation.
A scholarship of 30,000 rubles will be awarded annually for a period of one year and paid monthly starting from September 1, 2025. The total number of persons receiving the Presidential scholarship will be no more than 3,400 every year.