Research Training Fellowship for Developing Country Scientists (RTF-DCS): Call for Applications for 2015-16

The NAM S&T Centre invites applications from the scientists, technologists and engineers of the developing countries for the award of the Fellowships under its ‘Research Training Fellowship for Developing Country Scientists (RTF-DCS)’ scheme for the year 2015-16. The RTF-DCS Programme was initiated by the Centre three years ago with full financial support of the Government of India, Department of Science & Technology (DST) and is aimed at capacity building of the developing countries in the fields of Science & Technology through the affiliation of their scientists with the Indian scientific and academic Centres of Excellence.

The salient features of the RTF-DCS programme are as under:-

No. of Fellowships: 50

Duration of Fellowship: 6 months

Broad Disciplines, in which Fellowship are available: Agricultural Sciences; Biological and Medical Sciences; Chemical Sciences; Physical Sciences and Mathematics; Earth Sciences; Engineering Sciences; Materials, Minerals and Metallurgy; and Multi-disciplinary & Other Areas.

Eligibility Conditions: Scientists/ researchers from any developing country (except India) below 40 years of age (as on 1^st January  2015) and possessing at least a Post Graduate Degree in any Natural Science subject or an equivalent degree in Technology / Engineering / Medicine / allied disciplines.

Detailed guidelines of the Fellowship scheme are available here.