Deadline extended!

Dear Friends,

Season’s Greetings from Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute!

You would be happy to know that we have decided to extend the deadline for our current programme announcement. We have received many requests from our newly associated seventeen member institutions to extend the time to make use of opportunities available for the current year.  Keeping in view, the enthusiasm and requests of scholars, we are extending the deadline till 25th January, 2017.  I am sure this extension would be of help to those who are to find a suitable collaborator/affiliate in India/Canada and arrange documents, i.e. ‘reference letters’ and ‘letters of interest’ towards submission of their applications
Applications are invited from the faculty, researchers and students (Undergraduate, Graduate, Doctoral, Postdoctoral) of Indian and Canadian institutions that are member of SICI for the programmes, namely:
1. Shastri Institutional Collaborative Research Grant (SICRG)

2. Shastri Mobility Programme (SMP)-for Academicians & Administrators

3. Shastri Research Student Fellowship (SRSF) – for a) Doctoral, b) Postdoctoral and c) Students

4. Faculty-In-Residence Programme (FIR)/ Global Initiative For Academic Network (GIAN)

All domains of studies that help building stronger academic and research networks between both countries from Social Sciences and Humanities, Arts, Commerce & Management and  STEM subjects are considered for the fellowship/ programme.  However, applications are encouraged in the current priority areas of government of India i.e. Teacher Education and Leadership, Teacher Education and Leadership, Library Management and Development, Conservation and Heritage science and Management, Curatorship and Museum studies, Architecture, and Culture management, Curatorship and Museum studies, Architecture, Culture management, Health Care, Information & Communication Technology, Energy, Sustainable Habitat, Nano-technology, Water Resources & River Systems, Advanced Materials, Manufacturing, Security & Defence, Environmental Science & Climate Change.
Details of the programmes can be accessed from the link:http://www.sici.org.in/index.php?page=gao-for-indian-scholars.For further queries please feel free to write to us on: siciapplications@sici.org.in  or call us on: 011 – 2374 6417; 2374 3114; & 2374 2677

We hope you will take advantage of the extended deadline to submit well crafted prepared proposal. We look forward to hearing from you! Submissions are now due no later than Wednesday, January 25th, 2017.

Kindly disseminate this information among the academic fraternity of your institution.

Cheers and happy holidays!

Prachi Kaul, PhD.
Director
Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute