IAS, INSA & NASI Summer Research Fellowship Programme 2020
About
The 3 national Science Academies offer you several two-month Summer Fellowships to allow students/teachers (studying/teaching in India) to work with scientists related to the 3 Academies during 2020.
Applications are invited from interested teachers and students from all colleges and universities affiliated to UGC/AICTE/MCI/Accredited Institutions of State Universities for these Fellowships.
The chosen candidate must work with the assigned guide for two months any time during the calendar year, preferably during summertime.
The application should comprise:
(a) the application form in the prescribed format;
(b) scanned copies of marks sheets from class X till the previous examination;
(c) that a write-up (in roughly 150-250 words) regarding what the applicant would like to learn and achieve.
(d). Student applicants must provide the email id of one of their teachers or HoD familiar with their work. The Academy will approach them to get a recommendation letter in the prescribed format.
How to Register -
Applications should be submitted by logging on one of our sites [www.ias.ac.in; http://www.insaindia.res.in and www.nasi.org.in]. The registration number assigned soon after the online submission has to be quoted in all future correspondence.
Last Date To Apply -
30 November 2019
Instructions to Applicants:
Please don’t send hard copies of marks sheets or applications..
A General1
) Application ought to be submitted online in the prescribed format. This link is available in the sites of the three Academies (www.ias.ac.in; www.insaindia.res.in; www.nasi.org.in).
2) It is required to upload the marks sheets from class X until the last examination.
3) Only 1 application per candidate will be considered. If more than 1 application is submitted, none of the applications will be considered.
5) The final date for receipt of all applications online is 30 November 2019.
B. Eligibility criteria
Students
6a) Applicants must be studying in one of the following:
- BS / BSc / BVSc (II year only)
- BPharm (III and IV years only)
- BE / BTech / BCA (II and III years only)
- BArch(II,III and IV years only)
- MS / MSc / MVSc / MPharm (I year only)
- ME / MTech / MCA / MArch (I year just )
- (5-year integrated) MS / MSc /MTech / MBBS (II, III, IV years only)
- PharmD (III, IV years only)
- (dual degree) BTech + MTech (II/,III,IV years only)
- (dual degree) BE + MSc (II, III, IV years only)
- (dual degree) BS + MS (II, III, IV years only)
- Integrated PhD (I, II years only)
- MSc Tech (I, II years only)
Teachers
6b) Teachers have to be teaching at a College/University.
7) The minimum percentage of average marks in core subjects only (i.e. excluding languages) from X std. Up to post-graduation (whichever years finished ) should be 65 percent or over for students.The minimum Percentage of average marks doesn’t apply for teachers.
8) PhD students aren’t eligible.
9) Applicants that have availed the Academies fellowship twice before aren’t eligible to apply.
C. Contents
10) The applicant must include a write-up (in roughly 150–250 words) regarding this particular area of the applicant and indicate what he/she would like to learn and achieve through this fellowship. Additionally, it may include the specific experiment or theory the candidate would like to work on but NOT a general description of the area. The write-up shouldn’t be a”copy and paste” job from any source.
D. Enclosures to application
12) Both student and teacher applicants should upload scanned versions of mark sheets from class X, until the last examination in JPEG Format (the size of each marks sheet shouldn’t exceed 700 kb).
13) Teacher applicants must upload their publications if any.
E. Other matters
14) Student candidates should upload the contact details of one of their present teachers or the Head of the Department (HoD). The Academy will get in touch with the teacher and obtain the recommendation letter.
For more information, contact -
Mr C S Ravi Kumar
Coordinator, Summer Research Fellowship Programme
Indian Academy of Sciences
CV Raman Avenue, near Mekhri Circle
Sadashivanagar
Bengaluru 560 080