On 14 October, the Cabinet of Ministers approved amendments to the Cabinet Regulation of 4 September 2018 No 560 "Procedures for the Implementation of National Research Programme Projects". The new amendments provide that the leaders of BioPhoT research and innovation projects (RIPs) may also be PhD students or PhD candidates.
These changes significantly broaden the pool of potential beneficiaries and encourage the involvement of younger researchers in leading projects, which is expected to stimulate a surge of new ideas and innovations in the BioPhoT programme. The current BioPhoT call rules do not contradict these changes and therefore no changes will be made to the documentation.
