India, Germany call out for prioritising areas with scientific importance
The priority areas include sustainable energy technologies, environment and clean technologies, biobased economy, bio-based materials for different applications, food and agri tech
Secretary, Department of Science and Technology (DST) Dr S Chadrasekhar stressed aligning the priority areas with the scientific importance of India and Germany at an online webinar conducted as part of the outreach activity to promote the recently launched call for proposals for International Research & Training Group between DST and DFG.
The priority areas include Sustainable Energy Technologies (generation, conversion, and storage), Environment and Clean Technologies, Biobased Economy, Bio-based materials for different applications, food and agri technologies, technologies for advanced manufacturing and Integration of AI and Machine Learning in all domains.
Prof Dr Katja Becker, President, DFG, German Research Foundation, highlighted that the programme will be a beacon for Indo-German partnerships. It will create strong research collaboration through a bottom-up approach to address global challenges.
SK Varshney, Head, International Cooperation Division, DST, suggested that this programme will not only achieve a larger objective but also train and build capacity among the scientist and researchers in a way that will be instrumental in facing other scientific challenges of the future.
Dr Katja Fettelschoß, Deputy Head of Division Research Careers, DFG, hoped that this new platform will build a long-term partnership between India and Germany and that the participation of young researchers in this programme should be promoted.
Over 80 participants from universities and institutions from both countries were present in this online webinar of IRTG and discussed their queries with the officials from the International Division of DST (Dr Rajiv Kumar, Scientist-E) and DFG (Martin Roatsch (Research Careers, IRTG Team, DFG) about the details of application process under joint IRTG call.
The priority areas include sustainable energy technologies,