ISRO encourages research activities at Academia. Interested institutions can be engaged with ISRO centers for carrying out R&D activities in the ISRO focused areas. The following kinds of engagement is possible for carrying out joint research.
- Sponsored Research: ISRO publishes focused areas for research in the space domain and seek proposals from qualified academic institutions for joint research. PI will be identified by the institution, where as Co-PI will be joining from ISRO for carrying out the projects. The project including timeline and budget will be mutually agreed upon and reviewed thoroughly by Joint Management Committees / technical committees with in ISRO centers, before the project is approved. The approved amount shall be released in phases subject to meeting the conditions of the MOU.
- ISRO cells: ISRO also established cells at various premier engineering institutions for carrying out Joint research. Space Technology Cells (STC) are instituted at IITs’ and IISc for advanced research with the respective institution. Space Technology Innovation Centre(STIC) at NITs in various regions to focus on entrepreneurial oriented projects and Regional Academia Centers for Space (RAC-S) are instituted at NITs in the different regions to encourage the collaborative projects in space in that region. In additional various center of excellences, Innovation centers and space science centers are also instituted to promote the research in space.
Recognizing the need for a broader academic interface with institutions across the country, a series of capacity building initiatives have been taken up to further strengthen the involvement of academia for ISRO programmed. These initiatives include:
- Sponsored Research (RESPOND)
- Regional Academic Centres for Space [RAC-S]
- Space Technology Incubation Centres [S-TICs]
- Space Technology Cells [STC]
- Space Innovation Centre
- ISRO Chairs
- Centre of Excellence on Advanced Mechanics of Material
Each of the above programmed is uniquely designed to achieve a specific objective, such as encouraging students towards entrepreneurship [S-TIC], motivating Academicians to tackle challenging problems [ISRO Chairs] and raising the overall research aptitude of an institute in space domain [RAC-S].
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