STEPS (Students and Researchers Exchange Program in Sciences) is a Japan-Russia student exchange program whereby students from the School of Science and Department of Civil Engineering, School of Engineering, the University of Tokyo, study at universities in Russia, thereby providing students of both countries with opportunities for academic exchange to foster young minds who will play a key role in Japan-Russia research exchange going forward. The program has been carried out with the support of the Government of Japan under its Re-Inventing Japan Project.