Research & Education

GKII Education Programs & Initiatives:

Additional JHU & India Education Resources 

The following programs are not administered by GKII directly, but are a compilation of India-related education and research opportunities offered by partner JHU divisions and India organizations.  Please contact the respective organization directly for more information or with questions.

Faculty & Student Exchange and U.S-India Research Collaborations

The Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), an initiative of Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India, aims at improving the research ecosystem of India’s higher educational institutions by facilitating academic and research collaborations between top ranked Indian Institutions and globally ranked Foreign Institutions, through Joint Research Projects involving mobility of students and faculty. The SPARC Scheme is expected to have a major impact in providing the best international expertise to address major national problems, expose Indian academicians to the best collaborators abroad, enable international faculty to stay in India for a longer duration, provide Indian students an opportunity to work in the world class laboratories, to develop strong bilateral relationships in research, and improve the international ranking of Indian Institutions.

28 Countries have been identified for collaboration in the first phase of SPARC. There will be a set of Nodal Institutions (NI) in India, one for each participating foreign country, who will be responsible for hand holding, guiding Indian institutes and coordination of activities between the participating Indian Institutions in India and the respective foreign country as well as act as the liaision with the SPARC teams.

For more information visit: https://sparc.iitkgp.ac.in/

VAJRA (Visiting Advanced Joint Research) Faculty Scheme is a dedicated program exclusively for overseas scientists and academicians with emphasis on Non-resident Indians (NRI) and Persons of Indian Origin (PIO) / Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) to work as adjunct / visiting faculty for a specific period of time in Indian Public funded academic and research institutions. The Scheme recognizes the value of collaborative research as a crucial element for information sharing among researchers for updating and acquiring knowledge and skills, and also to draw different perspectives to solve a shared problem. Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) welcomes accomplished Overseas Scientists to take up challenging research problems in the Indian setting.

For more information please visit https://vajra-india.in/

Union Cabinet, Govt. of India has approved a programme titled Global Initiative for Academic Networks (GIAN) in Higher Education aimed at tapping the talent pool of scientists and entrepreneurs internationally to encourage their engagement with the institutes of Higher Education in India so as to augment the country’s existing academic resources, accelerate the pace of quality reform, and elevate India’s scientific and technological capacity to global excellence. GIAN is envisaged to catalyse higher education institutions in the country, and that it will initially include all IITs, IIMs, Central Universities, IISc Bangalore, IISERs, NITs and IIITs subsequently cover good State Universities where the spinoff is vast. GIAN is an evolving scheme which will initially include participation of foreign faculty in Institutes as Distinguished / Adjunct / Visiting faculty / Professors of Practice, etc., to participate in delivering Short or Semester-long Courses.

For more information please visit https://gian.iitkgp.ac.in/