‘Accelerate Vigyan’ Scheme

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• Recently, the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB) invited applications for the ‘Accelerate Vigyan’ scheme  for the summer season.

About ‘Accelerate Vigyan’ scheme

• “Accelerate Vigyan” (AV) strives to provide a big push to high-end scientific research and prepare scientific manpower which can venture into research careers and a knowledge-based economy. 
• It will work on mission mode and an Inter-Ministerial Overseeing Committee (IMOC) among all the scientific ministries/departments as well as few others, constituted for the purpose will help and support SERB in implementing the scheme as a successful embodiment.
• It will initiate and strengthen mechanisms of identifying research potential, mentoring, training and hands-on workshops, on a broad-based national scale. 
• Aim: 
  • To expand the research base in the country, with three broad goals – consolidation/aggregation of all scientific training programs, initiating High-end Orientation Workshops and creating opportunities for Research Internships  for those who do not have access to such resources/facilities
• Focus: 
  • on young potential researchers with an aim to give an opportunity to them to spend quality time in the pre-identified premier institution, labs/organizations and empower them through best practices and environment so that they acquire the requisite skills and vision for undertaking future research assignments requiring high standards. 
  • Another component of the AV aims towards branding and aggregation of all the scientific workshops and training programs conducted in the country under a common roof and logo of “Accelerate Vigyan”.
• Significance :  
  • It is expected to be a game-changer for developing career paths and providing support to catalogue skilled manpower development.
• Components

• Mission ‘SAMOOHAN’ :It marks the beginning of Accelerate Vigyan.
  •  It aims to encourage, aggregate and consolidate all scientific interactions in the country under one common roof. 
  • This mission, through its wide knowledge base, caters to a varied audience – R&D Departments, Institutes in Science & Technology as well as Stakeholders – mentors, coordinators, participants and students. It has 2 sub components :
    • ‘SAYONJIKA’ is an integrated initiative to catalogue capacity building activities in Science and Technology supported by Government funding agencies in the country. 
    • SANGOSHTHI’ is designed to facilitate the scientific community to establish an interaction with other individuals and research groups to enhance knowledge exchange. It is to keep them abreast of the latest developments in Science &Technology by supporting participation in national and international events across the country. This is done by providing partial financial …

• Mission ‘ABHYAAS’
  • It is an attempt to boost Research & Development in the country by enabling and grooming potential PG / PhD level students by developing dedicated research skills in selected areas/disciplines/fields through high-end workshops and Training and Skill Internships. 
  • This is especially important for those researchers who have limited opportunities to access such learning capacities/facilities/infrastructure.
    • It has two sub components: High-End Workshops (‘KARYASHALA’) and Research Internships (‘VRITIKA’). 
      • ‘KARYASHALA’ is an effort to improve the research productivity of promising PG and PhD students from universities and colleges through high-end workshops on specific themes. This program aims to provide opportunities to acquire specialized research skills. These workshops will primarily be facilitated at Organizations / Institutions 
      • ‘VRITIKA’ is the call for initiation and practice in science through a Training and Skill Internship.
        •  This program aims to provide opportunities to promising PG students from universities and colleges to get exposure and hands-on research experience. 

Source: DTE