Empowering Innovation,
Amplifying Impact

Fostering Synergy, Accelerating
Discovery, And Empowering Change
Through Strategic Collaboration

First of it's kind initiative

Collaborate with another
SNF Partnering Institution and
grab up to INR 40 L per Grant

Purpose and Focus

The purpose of the Shiv Nadar Foundation collaboration grants is to bolster stronger cooperation among all the foundation institutions. The grants program will accelerate the process of delivering research and exploration lead innovation delivered by inter-institution department and cross functional teams.

The Grants Focus Is:

Real world application or project scope that covers or solves mass impact missions
Open theme format for maximum collaborative participation
Exploring proposals beyond on-going projects and the contemporary motivation of the individual institution

Eligibility and Team

Collaboration Mandate

The grants mandates 2 or more collaborating SNF institutions to participate together
Diverse Team Composition

Team can comprise of professors, non-teaching staff and external experts
Student Inclusivity

Participation of students are encouraged and would be given preference

Participating Entities

Budget

₹ 40,00,000 x 5 grants

A maximum Grant value of ₹ 40 Lacs shall be allocated per Grant
Budget allocated can only be used for below headers as required

Manpower

Consumables

Minor Equipment

Travel for Research (confrence travel is not allowed)

Duration

The Grants project must be of minimum duration for 2 years and can go up to 3 years.

Selection Criteria

The proposal will be evaluated by the preselected jury basis their submitted proposal. It would be judged based on feasibility, impact on society, scalability, collaboration scale and proposed outcome.

Note : Please follow this space for further updates

Timeline

5th Sept 2024

Inviting Nominations

17th Jan 2025

Announcing Winners

18th Nov 2024

Closure of Call

1st April 2025

Project Starts

Winning Proposals of Season 1

The Past as Present

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Together We Can

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Exploring Flexible UV LED for Disinfection...

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Bluebook Process - Past as Present

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Jury for Evaluation

Following members as part of internal jury would be evaluating snf collaboration grants

Dr. Suneet Tuli

Dean, R&P, SNIoE

Dr. V E Annamalai

Principal SSN

Pawan Danwar

CFO HCL Corp.

Sundar Mahalingam

President Strategy

S. K. Bhattacharyya

VC, SNU Chennai

Prof. Indranil Manna

VC, BIT Mesra Ranchi

Prof. Suresh Babu

Director, AU Delhi

Priya Nanda

Director of Education SNS

Partha Mukhopadhyay

Senior Fellow

Dr. Ananya Mukherjee

Vice-Chancellor, SNIoE

Collaboration Material

SRI SIVASUBRAMANIYA NADAR (SSN)

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SHIV NADAR SCHOOL

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SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY, DELHI-NCR

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VIDYAGYAN

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SHIV NADAR UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI

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SHIKSHA

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KIRAN NADAR MUSEUM OF ART

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THE HABITATS TRUST

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GUVI

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Submission of Proposals

The proposal should be in PDF format and must contain an undertaking form from principal investigator of collaborating entities in alignment with the sample proposal shared on the website.
Bluebook document should also be submitted in the prescribed format as available on the website.
https://www.shivnadarfoundation.org/IIC-grants

To officially register your submission, please follow below steps –

1. Firstly, Project teams need to email the proposal and bluebook document in the prescribed format to Collaborating Institution SPOCs while keeping snfcollaborationgrants@snfgroup.org in cc | Latest By 18th November 2024

2. Only once it has been approved by Primary Institution SPOC, the project team needs to upload their final Proposal (in PDF format including Undertaking form) and bluebook document (in Excel format) on the online form available on https://www.shivnadarfoundation.org/IIC-grants (Under Submission tab) to register their final submission | Latest By 22nd November 2024

Conduct

Once the grant is assigned, a project review shall take place every 6 months to assess progress and resolve any challenges

A final project completion report shall be submitted within 1 month of completion of project

Important Terms and Conditions

The team can’t hire any permanent employee for the project while specialists/consultant on project basis would be okay
Administrative expenses cannot be more than 10% of the allocated snf grants money
Jury decision would be final in terms of selection of grants projects
Anytime the project seems to be not moving forward as expected, the jury has the right To scrap the project or transfer the responsibilities, as required
Dispersion of grants would be subject to decision of evaluation jury
All projects developed or ip created/granted via this grants program will be owned by Shiv nadar foundation
The faculty / professors of the project will enjoy the joint publishing right and can Table whitepapers about the outcome of the project jointly with snf
People who are pursuing or have completed Ph.D are eligible for stipend of ₹ 31,000 p.m.
Similarly, people who are pursuing or completed M.tech are eligible for stipend of ₹ 12,500 p.m.
Additionally, our recommendation is to keep overall stipend amount under 20% of the overall snf grants budget but in case it goes beyond the suggested benchmark due to certain project requirement, appropriate explanation can be incorporated in the proposal for further consideration

Empowering Innovation, Amplifying Impact

First of it's kind initiative

Purpose and Focus

The Grants Focus Is:

Eligibility and Team

Participating Entities

Budget

Manpower

Consumables

Minor Equipment

Travel for Research (confrence travel is not allowed)

Duration

Selection Criteria

Timeline

Proposal Format

Winning Proposals of Season 1

Jury for Evaluation

SPOC

Collaboration Material

Submission of Proposals

Conduct

Important Terms and Conditions

Empowering Innovation,
Amplifying Impact