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Rajiv Kumar Scientist, IC

Department of Science & TechnologyMinistry of Science & Technology

Govt. of India

Participation of India in Multilateral

S&T Programmes

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SCIENCE STRUCTURE IN INDIA

CENTRAL GOVERNMENT

S&T DEPARTMENTS/

COUNCILS STATEGOVERNMENT

S&T DEPARTMENTS /

COUNCILS

UNIVERSITIES INDEPENDENT

R&D INSTITUTES / AUTONOMOUS

ORGANISATIONS

S&T IN NON-GOVERNMENTAL

ORGANISATIONSIN-HOUSE

R&D IN PRIVATE

INDUSTRIES

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National R&D ExpenditureIn absolute term & percentage of GNP

Sector wise (2002-03)

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DOS

DST

DAEDBT

DSIR

MES

OTHERS

DIT

HRD

ICAR

ICMR

MNES

MOEF

DDRD

CENTRAL S&T

DEPARTMENTS

CSIR

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Central Govt. Agency-wise Support to Extra-mural R&D Projects, 2002-03

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MandateMandate

To identify, facilitate and promote India’s international cooperation in emerging and

frontier areas of S&T under various frameworks

SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

(STIC)

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• Bilateral Programmes

• Regional and Multilateral Programmes

• Creation / Shared use of Advanced Facilities

• Thematic Joint R&D Centres and Joint Ventures

• Joint Centres for Promotion of Advanced Research

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

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Shift from Unilateral to Multilateral

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BILATERAL PROGRAMMES

Agreement with 72 countries

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• Armenia• Argentina• Australia• Bangladesh • Belarus • Brazil• Bulgaria• Canada • China• Colombia• Croatia• Cuba• Czech Republic• Cyprus• Egypt • Estonia• European Union• France

• Germany• Hungary• Iceland• Italy • Israel • Indonesia • Iran• Japan• Korea (DPR)• Kazakhstan• Kyrgyzstan• Laos• Lebanon• Libya• Malaysia• Mauritius• Mexico

PARTNER COUNTRIES

•Active Cooperation• Stable Cooperation• Low Key Cooperation

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• Moldova • Mongolia• Mozambique• Myanmar• Namibia• Nepal• Northern Ireland• Oman• Peru• Philippines• Poland• Portugal • Russia • Romania• Republic of Korea• Serbia • Singapore• Slovenia

• South Africa• Sri Lanka• Sudan• Sweden• Switzerland• Syria• Tajikistan• Trinidad & Tobago • Thailand• Tunisia• Turkey• Ukraine • United Kingdom• United States• Uzbekistan• Venezuela • Vietnam • Yemen• Zambia

PARTNER COUNTRIES

•Active Cooperation• Stable Cooperation• Low Key Cooperation

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REGIONAL AND MULTILATERAL PROGRAMMES

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A lead role has been systematically built up for India in Regional S&T cooperation Programmes

India has been an active participant in multilateral programmes

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EUROPEAN UNIONAgreement:

November 23, 2001 Rectified October 14, 2002

Provisions• Participation in EC sponsored projects• Participation in projects co-sponsored by India & EC• Use of Advanced Research Facilities in bilateral mode• Award of International Research Fellowship

Agreement Implementation:• Programme of Cooperation• General & Financial Terms• Joint Workshops on ICT, Genomics, Climate Change, Nano Science, Automotive Components

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Members: Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam

Partner countries: Australia, Canada, China, European Union,India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand, Pakistan, Russia and United States.

Identified Areas of Cooperation:

– Biotechnology, – Information Technology, – Space Science & Technology, – Technology Management, – S&T Popularization

ASEAN S&T development fund being established ASEAN Intellectual Property Institute being established in India Establishment of Technology Innovation & Commercialization Centre

India - ASEAN S&T CooperationAssociation of South East Asian Nations

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The trilateral IBSA Dialogue Forum was established in June 03 to address the common problems.

Science & Technology is one of the key areas

Identified Areas of Cooperation:

– Health (TB, Malaria and HIV/AIDS), – Nanotechnology, – Biotechnology, – Oceanology

9 trilateral workshops held Creation of database of experts working on Malaria is under development On Indian side a flagship project on HIV?AIDS is under development

India – Brazil-South Africa(IBSA)

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Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation

Members: Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan

BIMST – EC

Establishment of BIMST-EC Research Centre on Weather and Climate

at New Delhi

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Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional Cooperation

IOR - EC

Member States (18)Australia, Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Iran, Kenya, Madagascar, Malaysia, Mauritius, Mozambique, Oman, Singapore, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, UAE and Yemen

Dialogue Partners (5)China, Egypt, France, Japan, UK

DST is Indian S&T coordinator for IOR

Several Workshops held

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The World Academy of Sciences

• South-South Cooperation

• Around 80 Indian scientists are its Fellow

• New Delhi hosted 2002 meeting.

• Three broad activities:Lectureship SchemeEquipment PlacementLibrary

TWAS

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Science & Technology Policy Asian Network

Australia, Bangladesh,Brunei Darussalam, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, LAOS, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri

Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam

STEPAN

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Members:India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Srilanka Maldive and Bhutan

• To address the common problems• Science & Technology is one of the key areas• Socially oriented S&T interventions for rural & weaker sections

Some of the Projects taken in last 2 years

• Mitigation and disaster• Drinking water• Low cost housing• Popularization of S&T

SAARCSouth Asian Association of Regional Cooperation

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UNESCO

UNDP

NAM-S&T Cooperation

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CREATION / SHARED USE OF ADVANCED

FACILITIES

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CREATION / SHARED USE OF ADVANCED FACILITIES

CERN (Geneva)

ELLETRA (Italy)

Sp Ring-8 (Japan)

KEK Accelerator(Japan)

FAIR (Germany)

Synchrotron Radiation Sources Beamline Novosibirsk, (Russia)

Fermilab (United States)

Synchrotron Light Sources (Brazil and Singapore)

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THEMATIC JOINT R&D CENTRES AND JOINT

VENTURES

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Thematic Joint R&D Centres• Powder Metallurgy & New Materials, Hyderabad

• Vaccine Manufacturing Facility, Bulandshahr

• Advanced Computing, Moscow

• Biotechnology, Allahabad

• Gas Hydrate, Chennai

• Ayurvedic Research, Moscow

• Organic Synthesis, Bangalore

• Earthquake Research, New Delhi

• Mathematics, Chennai, Mumbai

• Solid State Chemistry, Bangalore

• Water Research, Hyderabad, Bangalore

• Micro-engineering, New Delhi

• Micro-electronics, Allahabad

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Proposed Joint Centres

• MEMS (Italy)

• Web Technologies & Application (Italy)

• Biomedical Instrumentation (Russia)

• Non-ferrous Metallurgy & Rare Materials (Russia)

• Biotechnology Training & Education (UNESCO)

• Accelerators & Lasers (Russia)

• Innovation & Science (USA)

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JOINT CENTRES FOR PROMOTION OF

ADVANCED RESEARCH

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JOINT CENTRES FOR PROMOTION OF ADVANCED RESEARCH

• Indo-French Centre for Promotion of Advanced Research (IFCPAR)

• Indo-US Science & Technology Forum• Indo-Russian Technology Centre ##

• Indo-German Cetre for Research, Science & Technology ##

## Proposed

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Participation in International S&T Centres

• Centre for Science & Technology for Non- Aligned Countries (NAM S&T Centre), Delhi

• International Centre for Science & Technology Information (ICSTI), Moscow

• International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Vienna

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More such events to follow

Taking Scientific Results to IndustryExhibition on Belarussian S&T - 2003

DST-CII Technology Summit –2004 - Partner Country Russia

Exhibition on Ukrainian S&T - 2004

DST-CII Technology Summit –2005 - Partner Country Canada

DST-CII-FICCI Mission for Bio-2005 - USA

DST-FICCI Global Conference on “India R&D 2005 – The World’s Knowledge Hub of the Future”

DST-CII coordinated China Tech 2006

DST-CII-FICCI Mission for Bio-2006 - USA

DST-CII Technology Summit –2006 - Partner Countries ASEAN

DST-FICCI Global Conference on “India R&D 2006

India-EU Science Icon Meet

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Innovation linked International Cooperation

• Complementing core competencies in areas of innovations

• Linking Laboratory and Industrial level innovations through clustering models

• Equitable Sharing of Intellectual Property rights

• Equitable sharing of benefits

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Future Focus

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• India centric Programme

• Top-down Approach

• Support Basic R&D, Pre-industrial R&D and Industry R&D

• Enhanced cooperation with selected countries

• Forging Public Private Partnership

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HIGH-TECH VENTURE

DSTINDUSTRY

RISK FINANCE

TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION

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THANK YOU

E-mail: rajivarc@nic.in

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