Rajiv Kumar

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Participation of India in Multilateral ST
Programmes
Rajiv Kumar Scientist, IC Department of Science
Technology Ministry of Science
Technology Govt. of India
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SCIENCE STRUCTURE IN INDIA
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National RD Expenditure In absolute term
percentage of GNP
Sector wise (2002-03)
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CSIR
CENTRAL ST DEPARTMENTS
HRD ICAR ICMR MNES MOEF
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Central Govt. Agency-wise Support to Extra-mural
RD Projects, 2002-03
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SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY - INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
(STIC)
Mandate To identify, facilitate and promote
Indias international cooperation in emerging and
frontier areas of ST under various frameworks
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INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

• Bilateral Programmes
• Regional and Multilateral Programmes
• Creation / Shared use of Advanced Facilities
• Thematic Joint RD Centres and Joint Ventures
• Joint Centres for Promotion of Advanced Research

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Shift from Unilateral to Multilateral
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BILATERAL PROGRAMMES Agreement with 72 countries
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PARTNER COUNTRIES

• 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

• Active Cooperation
• Stable Cooperation
• Low Key Cooperation

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PARTNER COUNTRIES

• 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

• 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 ST cooperation Programmes
India has been an active participant in
multilateral programmes
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• EUROPEAN UNION
• Agreement
• 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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India - ASEAN ST Cooperation Association of
South East Asian Nations

• 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,
• ST Popularization
• ASEAN ST development fund being established
• ASEAN Intellectual Property Institute being
  established in India
• Establishment of Technology Innovation
  Commercialization Centre

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India Brazil-South Africa (IBSA)

• 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

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BIMST EC
Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-sectoral
Technical and Economic Cooperation Members
Bangladesh, India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka,
Thailand, Nepal, Bhutan
Establishment of BIMST-EC Research Centre on
Weather and Climate at New Delhi
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IOR - EC
Indian Ocean Rim Association for Regional
Cooperation
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 ST coordinator for IOR
• Several Workshops held

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TWAS

• The World Academy of Sciences
• South-South Cooperation
• Around 80 Indian scientists are its Fellow
• New Delhi hosted 2002 meeting.
• Three broad activities
• Lectureship Scheme
• Equipment Placement
• Library

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STEPAN
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
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SAARC South Asian Association of Regional
Cooperation

• Members
• India, Nepal, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Srilanka
• Maldive and Bhutan
• To address the common problems
• Science Technology is one of the key areas
• Socially oriented ST interventions for rural
  weaker sections
• Some of the Projects taken in last 2 years
• Mitigation and disaster
• Drinking water
• Low cost housing
• Popularization of ST

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UNESCO UNDP NAM-ST 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 RD CENTRES AND JOINT VENTURES
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Thematic Joint RD 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 ST Centres

• Centre for Science Technology for Non- Aligned
  Countries (NAM ST Centre), Delhi
• International Centre for Science Technology
  Information (ICSTI), Moscow
• International Institute for Applied Systems
  Analysis (IIASA), Vienna

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Taking Scientific Results to Industry Exhibition
on Belarussian ST - 2003 DST-CII Technology
Summit 2004 - Partner Country
Russia Exhibition on Ukrainian ST - 2004
DST-CII Technology Summit 2005 - Partner
Country Canada DST-CII-FICCI Mission for
Bio-2005 - USA DST-FICCI Global Conference on
India RD 2005 The Worlds 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 RD 2006 India-EU Science Icon Meet
More such events to follow
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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 RD, Pre-industrial RD and
  Industry RD
• Enhanced cooperation with selected countries
• Forging Public Private Partnership

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TECHNOLOGY DEMONSTRATION
HIGH-TECH VENTURE
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