Programmes & Schemes

Project- based Personnel Exchange Programme “Indo-German Joint Research Collaboration”

Agreement : The ’Project-based Personnel Exchange Programme’(PPP) is a bilateral research promotion programme which is the result of the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) concluded in 1998 between the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) and the Department of Science and Technology (DST).

Ministry / Department: Department of Science & Technology (DST), Govt of India

Focus Area: agricultural sciences, veterinary medicine, forestry, engineering, earth sciences, mathematics, theoretical computer science, informatics, medicine, life sciences, health sciences, animal sciences, nutritional medicine, physics, material sciences and chem

Target Audience: Scientists/ researchers, university professors, post-doctoral researchers and doctoral students.

Funding Agency: Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF);

Eligibility: University professors, scientists/researchers from German and Indian universities and those in permanent positions at research institutes / laboratories are eligible to apply. The programme is open to academics in the disciplines of agricultural sciences, veterinary medicine, forestry, engineering, earth sciences, mathematics, theoretical computer science, informatics, medicine, life sciences, health sciences, animal sciences, nutritional medicine, physics, material sciences and chemistry.

Purpose: Collaboration, Research

Funding Cycle: A project, if jointly approved, shall be funded for a maximum period of two years

Application Method: Online

International: (Country/Agency): Germany

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