Industry-Academia Research & Development Programme (India and France)

It works as an enabling platform for the industrial organizations in India & France to realize their potential in terms of product and process development. It facilitates innovation, risk taking for Industries and also bringing the private industry, public institutions and the government under one roof to promote the research and innovation between India & France.

Aim

• To promote linkages between Industry (SME/MSME/Big industry) and Academia of France and India by enhance the competitiveness of the Industrial partner and leveraging the research skills of Academia.

Objective

• To promote the development of new processes or products or the improvement of existing processes or products, through industry centric proposal focusing its need for society benefit. It’s expected that the proposed ideas should have deliverables like demonstration of proof concept & prototype building up to Technology Readiness Level (TRL 4-5).

Thrust Area

• Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (Supercomputing, Cloud Computing, Artificial Intelligence, Miscellaneous)
• Renewable & Clean Energy (Hydrogen, Renewable Energy Technologies Solar & Wind Power)
• Smart Mobility (Energy Efficient Transport and Logistics)
• Agricultural Science and Technology (Food Safety Climate Change, Agro-Ecological Farming)
• Sustainable Nutrition
• Affordable Health Care (Cancer Studies, Neurosciences, Biotechnology, Biomedical Engineering, Public Health, Medical Waste Treatment Technology, One Health)
• Technology for the SDGs (Sustainable Buildings, Plastic Pollution, Marine Science and Ecological Science)
• Waste Management & Circular Economy

Duration and Funding Support

• The duration of the solution-driven proposals should be maximum for 3 years.
• The total funding for project for all partners will be maximum Euro 200.000 (Equivalent amount in Indian INR) for entire duration of the project.

Eligibility Criteria

• The project proposals submitted in the framework of this programme should preferably involve at least one industrial partner and one research institute each from India & France preferably (2+2 Model).
• However, project proposals not fulfilling this 2+2 model are also eligible (at least one industrial partner either in France or in India and a research institute from the other country) but the proposal documents shall clearly justify the situation for not fulfilling this 2+2 model.
  • Essential Features
    • The proposal must describe the proof of concept (already accomplished) in the proposal itself and also outline the possible road map on how to commercialize the outcome of the collaborative efforts being funded by CEFIPRA under the IARDP programme.
    • Project shall have at least one Industry/Company and one Public Research Organization from India and France each as Joint Applicants (2+2 model) and can have Co-Applicants and Collaborators from Academia, Research Institution, National Laboratory, Clinical Establishment, For Profit Company, Not-for-Profit Organization, Society, LLP, Trust or Foundation.
    • A Collaborator is an individual who will supply technical advice, reagents, samples or data for the project, but who would also normally be involved in the day-to-day execution of the project (unlike joint applicants and co-applicants). Collaborator involvement should be governed by appropriate legal agreements.
    • All the Co-Applicants shall be entities established under the relevant Law of the Land.
  • Eligibility for academic collaborator
    • Principal Collaborators and Joint Collaborators have to hold a permanent position as scientists’/Faculty members in universities/ deemed universities, academic institutes and national research and development laboratories/institutes.
  • Eligibility for Industry collaborator
    • Except for those who are registered as MSME, the Industry/industries should be committed to invest at least 10% of the project proposal cost in cash as their contribution. The industrial partners who would like to take exemption from this mandatory requirement (of contributing at least 10% of the project proposal cost in cash and not in kind) for example, MSMEs, they must provide the government registration certificate of being the MSME.
    • French Company is defined as one which is registered with the Register of Commerce and Companies, France.

For more information, visit CEFIPRA.