Open Doors: Russian Scholarship 2025-2026

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Open Doors: Russian Scholarship Project. We’d like to inform you that the Open Doors International Olympiad is on for the eighth time this year. Once again, we’d be happy to see you among the participants.


Here are the details.

Depending on the chosen direction, the winners of the Olympiad will be able to enroll for free in the Bachelor’s or Master's program of their chosen University. Participants of the doctoral track will be able to select a future research supervisor among the university organizers and pass an interview with them during the Olympiad. The winners of the postdoctoral track receive a job offer for a research position at the organizing university of the Olympiad.
 
Participation in the Olympiad and further education at the University are possible in Russian or English. There are 14 Subjects available for participation and further studies.
 Subjects' programs and sample tasks of the second stage trials as well as the complete rules, requirements, terms, and conditions of participation are available on the Olympiad website in more detail.

Open Doors: Russian Scholarship 2025-2026

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Program Details

To participate in the Olympiad on the Bachelor's track it is allowed to those who have or are completing in the academic year of the Olympiad the level of education that allows entering educational organizations of higher education under the national legislation of the state of study. Participants of the Master's track must have a bachelor's or Specialist's degree or be completing an appropriate level of education in 2025 or 2026. Participants of the doctoral track will need a Specialist's or a Master's degree. For participation in the postdoctoral track Olympiad, persons up to 39 years of age with a candidate of science, doctoral degree, or PhD as of the date of the start of the postdoctoral track registrations are eligible.
 

Stages of Evaluation

The first 2 stages of the Olympiad are identical for Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral tracks and are held online


The first round is a portfolio competition

To be allowed to participate, you’ll have to pass an entrance test in each of your selected Subjects. Open doors will designed to make a preliminary evaluation of your knowledge level and get you acquainted with the Olympiad’s interface. If you are unable to pass this test in three attempts, you won’t be able to complete your portfolio and participate in the Olympiad trials. Those who have been successfully selected after the evaluation of the portfolios are invited to take part in the second stage - the Olympiad trials, which is a series of proctored online exams.
 
The second stage of the postdoctoral track involves a video presentation of the participants' scientific results.
 
The doctoral track includes one additional stage which consists of an interview with potential research advisors at the participant’s choice and, if applicable, with the Universities' representatives (managers of the Doctoral track). If the interview is successful, the participant chooses a research advisor from among those who gave them approval. 


The third stage of the Olympiad is held for the postdoc track in the interview mode. The participant in the postdoctoral track can have up to 6 interviews with the heads of research projects, whom they can choose from the list offered to them in the participant's personal account.
 

 To apply, click here.

Last date of Russian Open Doors Scholarship 2025

Registration is closing on November 20 for Bachelor’s, Master’s, and Doctoral tracks and on December 10 for the postdoctoral track!

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