India - International Collaboration Opportunities
India - International Collaboration Opportunities
Overview of FP7 funding for collaboration with Indian Partners
The main focus of the calls is the integration of research with innovation to tackle societal challenges and create sustainable jobs and growth by giving Europe a lead in the key technology markets of the future. All of the calls are open for the participation of non-European researchers and/or research organisations working alongside their EU counterparts.
India is considered as an International Cooperation Partner Country (ICPC) - hence with the same rights as member states. An overview of open calls of interest to India can be downloaded here.
International Dimension of Marie Curie Mobility Programmes
The objective of these actions is to increase the quality of European research by attracting research talent from outside Europe and fostering mutually beneficial research collaboration with researchers from outside Europe. This activity is addressed to experienced researchers, i.e. researchers who are either in possession of a doctoral degree (independently of the time taken to acquire it) or have at least four years of full-time equivalent research experience. There are three schemes in this category:
Marie Curie International Outgoing Fellowships for Career Development (IOF)
Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowships (IIF)
Marie Curie International Research Staff Exchange Scheme (IRSES)
For further information please visit the cordis website
Development and Cooperation DG (EuropeAid)
Development and Cooperation – EuropeAid is a new Directorate–General (DG) responsible for designing EU development policies and delivering aid through programmes and projects across the world. It incorporates the former Development and Europeaid DGs. EuropeAid Development and Cooperation is responsible for designing European development policy and delivering aid throughout the world. EuropeAid delivers aid through a set of financial instruments with a focus on ensuring the quality of EU aid and its effectiveness. An active and proactive player in the development field, we promote good governance, human and economic development and tackle universal issues, such as fighting hunger and preserving natural resources.
EuropeAid offers grants and procurement opportunities to third parties that are engaged in external aid activities. For further information and open calls visit http://ec.europa.eu/europeaid/work/funding/index_en.htm.
The annual 2012 workprogrammes for Clean Technologies, Competition, Renewable energy and Solar Energy are available here
Margdarshi Fellowhips from The Wellcome Trust and the India Alliance
An opportunity for visionary biomedical scientists to lead and nucleate a cutting edge research programme in India.
This scheme is for scientific leaders who already lead their own research laboratory/group, and wish to relocate from their current institution (in India or overseas) to a not-for-profit research institute or university in India.
The underlying philosophy in launching this fellowship is to replicate global standards of scientific excellence, and minimize disparities in scientific and administrative capacity, among research institutes and universities across India.
For further information visit http://www.wellcomedbt.org/margdarshi-fellowships-Purpose.html