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he main focus of the Initiative is Higher Education and within this, there is an emphasis on research oriented links between |
centres of excellence. The two principal activities will be promoting research partnerships between UK-India centres of excellence and developing joint and dual course delivery.
UKIERI in its first year awarded 6 Major Awards,
24 Standard Awards & 7 Collaborative Delivery Awards and disbursed almost £4 million towards these. Many eminent UK institutions like University of Cambridge, University of Liverpool, University of Leicester, Imperial College, London from the UK and Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Indian Institutes of Technology, |
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Centre for Cellular and Molecular Biology, Jadavpur University and Indian Institute of Management from India have been awarded grants to undertake joint research projects in a wide cross-section of subject areas  |
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| By 2011, the following minimum targets will have been met: |
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| 50 new collaborative research projects, including 5 'major' projects linking centres of excellence.
40 new UK award programmes delivered collaboratively in India with 2,000 Indian students enrolled.
300 additional Indian research students, postdoctoral researchers and staff will have worked in the UK. |
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| 200 UK researchers will have worked in India and 200 UK undergraduate students will have been supported for studies in India.
2,000 Indian research students will have completed research degree in the UK through collaborative delivery. |
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KIERI also supports Collaborative Delivery wherein both Indian and UK-Institutions deliver jointly developed programmes. The |
following partnerships have been selected for the first round (2006-07) under the Collaborative Delivery Awards |
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