Indo-UK Collaborative Research Initiative 2010
Call For Proposal Under Indo-UK Collaborative Research Initiative In’Bridging The Urban & Rural Divide’ In 2010
Scholarship Description:
The Department of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and the Research Councils UK (RCUK) are looking to strengthen collaboration between UK and Indian research institutions. India remains one of the UK Research Councils’ priority countries for increasing research collaboration. This call will focus on ‘Bridging the Urban and rural Divide’. The area of the call was agreed upon through a dialogue between the Department of Science and Technology, Government of India Research and the Councils UK Digital Economy and Energy programmes. Addressing the research challenges of making rural living a sustainable option was agreed to be of importance to both countries. Joint proposals are sought from consortia of researchers from the UK and India that will address the thematic areas articulated in this call document.
Contents:
? Background
? Funding
o Thematic focus for the call
? Eligibility
? Registering your interest
? How to apply
o Submitting proposals – UK lead partner
o Submitting proposals – India lead partner
o Guidance on writing proposals
? Assessment process
? Assessment criteria
? Additional grant conditions
? Key dates
? Contacts
Background:
DST and RCUK have agreed to fund research projects that tackle the challenges in ‘Bridging the Urban and Rural Divide’. This initiative aims to address whole systems research problems in making living rurally a sustainable option, both in the India and UK, and build on the strengths of existing DST – EPSRC initiatives in Solar Energy and Next Generation Networks. At the UK-India Science and Innovation Council hosted in India in February 2010, UK and Indian Governments agreed areas for joint working, one of which was on the role of off-grid technologies in bridging the urban and rural divide. This followed a series of meetings between officials from DST and RCUK to discuss complimentary priorities. Following stakeholder consultation in India and UK, a concept paper and joint funding was agreed at Ministerial level in July 2010. In order to further scope the areas for potential collaboration and enhance understanding of the challenges in both countries, a workshop to bring together leading researchers from both India and the UK was held in Wardha, Maharashtra in October 2010. This call is based around areas identified as themes of common interest during the workshop. Framed by the aim of making rural living a sustainable option, areas of research focus include:
? Robust, digitally secure systems to provide information and decision support
? Hybrid systems for energy
? Healthcare technologies and systems
? Enterprise
Principles:
? Inclusive
? User focussed and driven by real problems
? Addresses sustainability of project outputs including learning and training.
Underpinning: Robust, digitally secure systems to provide information and decision support:
? Digital security for trusted systems, digital interfaces that are useable and accessible for different communities and cultures
? Low cost network connectivity
?Thematic focus areas: Energy
? Hybrid systems for energy
? Biomass and waste utilisation
? Energy storage and efficiency
? Supply, demand and grids
? Solar, thermal and photovoltaics
?Healthcare technologies and systems Enterprise
? Business Models
? Enterprise development at the local level
? Value-chain analysis for enterprises
? Institutions for enterprise
Enablers
? Community design and implementation tools
? Sensors and monitoring
Eligibility:
? Only activities that involve academic collaboration between the UK and India can be considered.
? The Proposals should be for consortia and should include both UK and Indian partners.
? Proposals involving industrial collaborators are welcomed, but costs for these partners will not be covered by DST/ EPSRC through this call.
? Proposals involving Non Government Organisations (NGOs) are welcomed. Costs for such partners in India will be covered by DST, but NGO partners in the UK must fund their participation from other sources.A key aim of this scheme is to foster inter-disciplinary collaboration on common research challenges for India and UK, with a focus on technical challenges in Energy and Digital Economy. Accordingly, India and UK lead investigators and co-investigators should be academic researchers from institutions eligible to apply for DST/EPSRC funding respectively, or investigators/researchers from Science and Technology NGOs in India. Organisations with a specific interest in the application of the outputs of this research may be involved as partners in projects, only if they are eligible to receive funding from one of the organisations, or are participating on a self-funded basis. Applicants should note that this call has been informed by the outputs of a workshop held in Wardha in India on 19th to 21st October 2010. A list of participants at the workshop is published with this call. The networks and knowledge created at this workshop will form the core around which consortia will develop
Last Date To Apply:15 December 2010
Source:http://www.dst.gov.in/whats_new/whats_new10/india-uk/Indo_UK_Collaborative_Research_Initiative.pdf
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