Indo-French Centre for the Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR)
Centre Franco-Indien pour la Promotion de la Recherche Avancée (CEFIPRA)

CEFIPRA Seminars - Academia-Academia Collaboration (CSRP)

This scheme supports seminars and workshops focused on fundamental research topics of mutual interest. CEFIPRA facilitate for organizing seminars/workshops in areas of current relevance and applied areas of science and technology. The seminars/workshops have a key objective of initiating interactions among scientists and technologists from India & France and are expected to result in Industry-Academia & Academia-Academia centric collaborations.

Eligibility Criteria

• There can be maximum 25-30 participants from different institutions in the host country and at least 8-10 scientists from different institutions for the other country.
• Support is exclusively available to researchers affiliated with Indian and French universities.
• Involvement of the young scientists and technologists of the host country as a part of the attendees is encouraged.

To ensure maximum benefit, Indian and French participants should attend the seminar/workshop in person and actively contribute to the discussions for collaborations

CSRP (Thematic Areas):

1. Health.
   • One Health & Climate Change,
   • Early detection of emerging/important pathogens,
   • Developments of new vaccines and therapeutics for infectious diseases,
   • AI for early diagnosis of emerging/important diseases,
   • Comprehensive studies on metabolic and cardiovascular diseases and
   • Novel therapeutics and biological for emerging/important diseases.
2. Marine Sciences.
   • Underwater Systems, Instrumentation & Robotics,
   • Advanced Materials for Floating and Mobile Systems,
   • Geosciences from the Coast to Deep Waters,
   • Physics and Biochemistry of Oceans,
   • Oceans Observations & Modeling including the Ocean & Climate Nexus,
   • Ocean & Climate and Marine Biology & Pollution.