NRC-M

NRC-M -- the Centre -- is designed to promote research collaboration among researchers at the Centre and faculty members (and their students) in partner institutions.

Eligible partner institutions include academic departments engaged in education and research in materials science and engineering, metallurgy, ceramics, minerals and polymers.

Under this programme, the Centre will support:

• Long visits to IISc by you and your students for upto three man months.
• Support for the use of research facilities at the Centre.
• Short visits for the use of the computing facilities, materials databases, IISc library, and online journals and books.

If you are a faculty member at any of the eligible partner institutions and are interested in a research collaboration with the Centre, please see the guidelines for seeking funding under this program.

Essentially, you will first need to establish a collaborative arrangement with one of the researchers in IISc’s Department of Materials Engineering at IISc. We encourage a short visit to the Centre for discussions with your potential collaborator here, and for finalizing the scope of the collaboration.

You then apply, along with your IISc partner (and in the prescribed format) to formalize this arrangement, so that the Centre can fund your collaboration.

In some cases, the faculty members at the partner institution may wish to enter into a collaboration with a mentoring component. The mentoring activities may include (and are not limited to):

• Help in developing research topics.
• Help in writing research proposals to be submitted to funding agencies (stand-alone or jointly with researchers at the Centre).
• Devise and implement a work plan with continuous monitoring of progress.
• Arrange for selected masters and doctoral students to execute a part of their project at the Centre (undergraduate projects fall outside the scope of this Centre).