Deadline: 17 October 2025
The India-Canada Collaborative Industrial Research and Development Programme is now open to promote projects that are innovative and reflecting consumer demands, so that they are market-oriented at the same time focused on creating a new product or process that will eventually lead to commercialization.
Focus Areas
- On this basis, this RFP 2025 is open to the applied R&D projects in the areas of:
- Advanced manufacturing, including smart factory and smart manufacturing, advanced materials, automotive manufacturing, robotics and automation, “Industry 4.0” enablers such as additive manufacturing, near net shape manufacturing, assistive robotics and process automation, and industrial IoT implementation.
- Clean technologies and green technologies, including water and waste water management, smart grid and energy storage, battery-related technologies, renewable energy, smart cities, hydrogen technologies, waste management, waste-to-energy, electric vehicles, carbon capture, and energy storage.
- Digital technologies, including artificial intelligence for industry, cyber security, smart vehicle, and smart cities.
- Health and bio-sciences, including pharmaceuticals, health informatics, digital health, medical devices and mobile health.
- Food and agriculture technologies, including crop development, food processing, soil irrigation and monitoring, precision agriculture, and supply chain optimization.
- Smart infrastructure, including artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of things (IoT), geoinformation systems, smart mobility, smart grids, and quantum technologies.
Funding Information
- Funding for R&D Project Participants in India:
- TDB, on behalf of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, will fund the successful projects, as follows:
- DST will support up to INR 1.5 crore per project or 50% of the Indian Project Cost whichever is lower as a Grant, for a maximum project period of 24 months.
- Indian industry may receive up to 50% of their part of the eligible costs on a “Reimbursement Basis”, for costs already incurred on a proportionate basis.
- Indian R&D organization/academic institution may receive up to 100% of their costs (within applicable range specified above and as per proposal) on a reimbursement/advance basis.
- Funding from other public sector sources will be taken into account when awarding grant, and applicants will be asked to declare funding from other sources in the application.
- TDB, on behalf of the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India, will fund the successful projects, as follows:
Eligibility Criteria
- Eligible Indian Applicants:
- An Indian company having requisite understanding and capability to undertake R&D activities.
- The Indian Project Lead (IPL) (i.e. lead company) must be a commercial (for profit) company under the Indian Companies Act 1956/2013, which operates in and is headquartered.
- Atleast 51% stake of the INPL Company must be owned by Indian.
- The INPL should have the required expertise and team capacity to manage the proposed.
- Sole proprietors, OPC and partnership firms are not eligible for support.
- Companies headquartered and owned outside India and their subsidiaries in India, or vice versa, are not eligible to receive funding from DST under this programme.
- INPL should lead the project from Indian side and if required bring in other Industry Partners or Academic/R&D Institutions as Consortium.
For more information, visit TDB.
