ASEAN-INDIA RESEARCH TRAINING FELLOWSHIP (AI-RTF)
Number of fellowships: Initially to start with 50 (fifty) Fellowships per year shall be awarded to young scientists and researchers from ASEAN-Member Countries to get affiliated with Indian academic and R&D institutions. These Fellowships shall be equally distributed among ASEAN Member Country. Initially, 5 Fellowship shall be allocated for each ASEAN country. However, this number could be re-adjusted in accordance with the number of applicants from respective each ASEAN MS.
Duration of fellowships: The duration of the Fellowship will be for a period of two to six months. A minor variation in the duration would be allowed on recommendations of the Indian host Institute/ University depending upon the actual requirement of the research project as mutually agreed between the Fellowship holder and the Indian host institution.
Areas in which fellowships are available
The area/ topic of research for availing AIRTF must be ASEAN centric and must be aligned with the ASEAN Plan of Action on Science, Technology and Innovation (APASTI)-2016-2025. A copy of the APASTI is placed at Appendix-I. Fellowship will be offered for working in research topics under any of the following broad disciplines:
Agricultural Sciences
Biological and Medical Sciences
Chemical Sciences & Engineering
Computer Science & Engineering
Physical Sciences and Mathematics
Ocean, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences
Engineering Sciences
Materials, Minerals and Metallurgy
Science Policy / IPR Management / Technology Transfer & Commercialisation
Other multi-disciplinary areas of Science, Technology and Innovation in alignment with APASTI.
Eligibility and requirements: Applicant must be holding nationality of any of the ASEAN Member State.
Possess at-least a Masters Degree in any Natural Sciences or an equivalent degree in Technology / Engineering / Medicine / allied disciplines.
Applicant should be working / studying and / or affiliated to any national R&D or academic institution in his/ her home ASEAN Member country. The application should be endorsed by the Head of his/ her institution confirming that if selected, he/ she will be sanctioned leave for the Fellowship period and will join his/ her duties back in the institution on completion of the Fellowship in India.
The upper age limit for the applicant is 45 years as on date of submission of application.
The Applicants who have already availed Research Training Fellowship(RTF) are not eligible to apply again.
Fluency in English language
Indian nationals are not eligible for the Fellowship.
Applicants who have availed any fellowship scheme of Govt of India during last 5 years are not ELIGIBLE to apply.