How to apply for a project?
Introduction
Research proposals, supported by GU RAC-S should be in the areas as described in the document - Research Areas in Space (2023). There are five primary areas under which you can submit a research project. Each primary areas are sub-divided into several sub-areas. Each of these sub-areas has agian different fields and each of the fields is asigned to a specific ISRO Centre.
Our online submission form will guide you through these areas, sub-areas, and fields, and the relevant ISRO centres. Once you zero-in on a field belonging to a certain ISRO centre, your project will be sent to that centre for review.
You may also visit (or contact) the particular ISRO centre relevant to your project and contact the coordinator / scientist, best suited for your project and discuss the details of your project, if necessary, before submiting here. You can find all the details in the above-mentioned document.
Below we describe in bullet points, the procedure you need to follow to apply for a project.
Your proposed project need not be exactly same as per the area, sub-area, and field mentioned in the document. But it MUST belong to one of the area, sub-area, and field.
Procedure to apply for a project under RAC-S, GU
Download the document - Research Areas in Space (2023) by going to the Download page.
Find the broad area, sub-area, and the field, most relevant to the subject matter of your project.
Download Form A (Biodata of Investigators), Form B (Project Proposal), Form C (Declaration), and the Main Application for Grant of Funds by visiting the Download page.
Fill up these forms and make them ready to be uploaded. Once you have complete this procedure, proceed to the next step.
Once you finalise everything, visit the page Apply Now to begin your electronic submission.
In the primary form, you will need to enter your personal details. This form you will take you to another form where you will need to choose your field, sub-field, and the exact area of your proposal and also choose the particulars of related ISRO personal (if any). Once you submit this form, you will receive a six-digit uniqie Submission ID or SID over email.
With this SID, you must come back to the primary form, upload necessary documents, enter the SID and complete the submission process.
Important points to note
You MUST have a Google Mail (GMail) account to be able to apply for your project through the electronic submission facility.
You MUST use the same GMail address in all subsequent forms.
You will be able submit a form in a particular area ONLY once. You will however be able to edit your responses after submission.
You can submit muliple projects in different areas.
Funding of high-value assets under this scheme
While the final budget of individual projects will depend on the number of successful projects which are worthy of funding (in a financial year), we strongly encourage prospective PIs to restrict the budget of the project within ₹20.0 lakh or so, though this is NOT a strict limit. If a project really requires a higher budget, ISRO is open to considering a higher limit. If your project requires certain high-value assets and state-of-the-art experimental and testing facilities, we request you to explore various ISRO centres (or other national centres / institutes), where you will be able to avail these facilities. This scheme is NOT meant to be used for establishing infrastructure facilities, rather we assume that you already have at your disposal the facilities required to carry out your project work.
