Developing Cooperation for Joint R&D&I projects between India and Germany

Find your partners for a 2+2 project proposal under IGSTC's 2+2 Call 2024 on AI for Sustainability

This website offers a matchmaking tool to discuss project opportunities and facilitate introductions between organizations (research institutes, universities, industries, SMEs, research labs) from India and Germany. It is a 1:1 networking platform. Meetings among participants can be scheduled as a video call in the B2Match at any time until 30 April 2024. For more information please go to the section Matchmaking.

The Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC) was established by the Department of Science & Technology, Govt of India, and the Federal Ministry of Education and Research, Federal Govt of Germany to facilitate Indo-German R&D networking through substantive interactions among government, academia/research system and industries, thus fostering innovation for overall economic and societal developments in both the countries.

Through its flagship program “2+2 Mode of Partnership”, IGSTC intends to catalyse innovation centric R&D projects by synergising the strength of research/academic institutions and public/private industries from India and Germany.

Participants from India and Germany are invited to submit joint project proposals in the research and development of innovative products and applications with strong market potential and commercialization. (above TRL 3)

Scope

IGSTC's 2024 Call invites proposals from consortia of academia and industry from India & Germany under the overall thematic area AI for Sustainability with the following sub-topics:

• AI assisted understanding of extreme weather events
  • Climate models informing agriculture production systems and agricultural management practices
    
  • AI based extreme events detection and understanding
• Ethical & Fair AI, e.g., bias free AI (avoiding transfer context, algorithmic focus and emergent bias), privacy compliant AI (e.g. anonymising implicit social structural data) 
• Infrastructure planning
• AI across disciplines to model and plan sustainable and climate resilient cities
• Rural/agricultural land use planning

For more details please refer to the IGSTC Call text

It is recommended that applicants contact IGSTC Secretariat in India or Project Office in Germany for clarification if any prior to submitting the application.

Organised by

The Virtual Marketplace and this website are organized by the Indo-German Science & Technology Centre (IGSTC), a joint initiative by the Government of India (DST) and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF)