Sustainability
SDG 1 No Poverty · Sustainability evidence 2025
Financial assistance to the local community for start-ups
Evidence for the THE Sustainability Impact Ratings 2027 · Indicator 1.4.2 · Reference period: calendar year 2025
Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammad al-Khwarizmi gives financial assistance to start-ups in the local community. The University allocates between 300 and 500 million soums a year from its own funds to grants for start-up projects selected through open competition.
- Scope
- TUIT main campus in Tashkent. Figures cover the main campus; activities of the regional branches (Fergana, Nukus, Samarkand, Nurafshon, and Urgench, which joined Urgench State University in 2025) are mentioned where TUIT took part. Activities described took place at the main campus unless a branch is named.
- Period
- Calendar year 2025 (1 January – 31 December 2025)
- Responsible unit
- TUIT Incubation Center; Department of Finance and Economics
How the grants work
Grants are awarded once a year through a competition run by the TUIT Incubation Center. Teams of students, graduates and young entrepreneurs from the local community submit a business plan, and a commission of faculty, finance staff and invited investors selects the projects. Grants cover prototyping, equipment, software licences and market testing. Projects must show that they can become financially self-sustaining and must state their social or environmental benefit.
Further funding we help teams obtain
The Incubation Center prepares teams for national competitions and investors. In 2025 it helped teams apply to the President Tech Award, whose prize fund is USD 1 million (applications June–July 2025; TUIT official Telegram, 9 June 2025, t.me/tuituz_official/26142). On 6 December 2025 the University set up the TUIT Alumni Fund, through which graduates support students’ start-ups, research and innovation projects as well as students in need (t.me/tuituz_official/28404). Prizes paid by competition organisers are not counted in the grant total above.
This page is a public evidence record of Tashkent University of Information Technologies named after Muhammad al-Khwarizmi for the THE Sustainability Impact Ratings 2027 (reference period: calendar year 2025). Enquiries: rankings@tuit.uz.