INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY AFFAIRS DIVISION (ISTAD)

ISTAD plays the role of a bridge between CSIR and the scientific affairs of the other countries.

Mandate
Major Programmes and Significant Achievements

Bilateral Co-operation

Australia

Indo-Australian Joint Workshop on Bioremediation

Belarus

Indo-Belarus S&T Co-operation

China

Indo-China Joint Workshop

France

Indo-French JSTC

Germany

      Under this programme five projects have been successfully completed. At present six joint projects in the areas of Electronic Science & Engineering, Chemical Sciences (NCL and IICT), Bioactive molecules, Earth Sciences (NGRI) are under implementation. 

Three projects are ongoing under the DST’s Project Based Exchange of Personnel Programme with DAAD.

 Project supported under DBT-FzJ Cooperation

Out of the eight ongoing projects, three have been completed.  These joint projects were funded by Volkswagen Foundation.

Hungary

CSIR labs have a number of collaborative projects with their Hungarian counterparts under the Indo-Hungarian Inter-Governmental S&T cooperation. 

Myanmar

Indo-Myanmar JSTC (Joint Indo-Myanmar Working Group for Scientific and Technological Cooperation)

Nepal

Visits of Nepalese scientists in the field of Aromatic Plants and Instrumentation.

Portugal

Inter-governmental S&T cooperation with Portugal

Russia

Saudi Arabia

Co-operation with Saudi Arabian Standard Organization (SASO)

South Africa

Collaboration with Department of Science & Technology, South Africa, on Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL)

Thailand

Indo-Thailand JSTC

Vietnam

 

Multilateral Co-operation

European Union

Indo-EU S&T cooperation for targeted drugs for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria: cellular, molecular and biochemical studies in search of new targets and generation of novel lead molecules.

Global Biodiversity Information Facility (Gbif)

NBRI, Lucknow, has been assigned the lead role as the Indian National node of the GBIF, as an Associate Member of GBIF, NBRI will be in touch with other CSIR laboratories and other institutions in India and will hoist biodiversity data available on the public domain on the node

Fellowships

Contact Person: Dr. Rajendra Prasad, Head (ISTAD), CSIR, 2, Rafi Marg, New Delhi

Phone: 011-23316751

Fax: 011-23739041

email: prasad@csir.res.in

Website:ISTAD