Research · Grants

Open funding calls.

National science research grant

Up to ₹40 lakh

STEM · Doctoral · postdoctoral · Deadline Rolling

Open call for science research across physics, chemistry, biology, and applied mathematics. Two cycles per year.

Up to ₹25 lakh

AI · NLP · Early-career · Deadline Quarterly

Funding for projects on Indic-language LLMs, speech systems, and code-mixed NLP. Deliverables include open-source artefacts.

₹15-50 lakh

Environment · Mid-career · Deadline Annual · Sept

For practitioners and researchers building climate adaptation tooling. 12-month fellowship with mentor pairing.

₹5-20 lakh

CS · social impact · Any · Deadline Open

Tooling for accessibility, language access, civic infrastructure. Solo applicants welcome.

Up to ₹30 lakh

Quantum + HPC · PhD + postdoc · Deadline June, December

Hardware-agnostic algorithm work or noise-mitigation research. Includes cloud-credit allowances.

₹3-12 lakh

Humanities · digital · Any · Deadline Rolling

Digitisation of texts, transcription, OCR for Indic scripts. Sanskrit, Tamil, Bengali, Marathi prioritised.

Up to ₹35 lakh

Medicine · biology · Doctoral · Deadline Bi-annual

Annotated datasets, model fine-tunes for diagnostics. IRB sign-off required.

₹4-15 lakh

Pedagogy · learning sciences · Any · Deadline Open

Studies of vernacular delivery, learning outcomes, special-needs support, exam-prep efficacy.