SEED FUND
To support the academic collaboration necessary for the establishment of a New Zealand Centre in India, a matching grant programme for developing research collaboration. The jointly-funded Research Collaboration Development Fund would foster collaborative, sustainable, self-supporting research programmes by providing seed monies to faculty members at IITD and New Zealand universities to develop plans for long-term programmes. The program is funded and implemented by IRD under its MFIRP (Multi-Institutional Faculty Interdisciplinary Research Programme) initiative.
This competitive programme is open to faculty members at IIT Delhi and those affiliated with one of New Zealand’s eight universities in all disciplines. Successful proposals will be those which will:
(i) demonstrate an immediate potential to be sustainable through external funding sources and
(ii) involve a clear collaborative effort between faculty members from both their university and IIT Delhi.
IIT Delhi would provide up to ten matching fund grants of up to US$5,000 each for collaboration projects. New Zealand universities applying for funding would be required to provide an equal funding match as part of their application.
In the first round of the call which closed on May 20, 2020, 10 proposals were successful. These projects spanning many areas of science and engineering have xx NZ universities as partners.
| Title | IITD PI Name & Dept. | NZ PI Name & Dept. |
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Utilisation of Ammonia in a Spark-Ignition Engine |
K A Subramanian; Dept. of Energy Science and Engineering |
Alan Brent; The VUW Chair supports the transition to sustainable energy of the New Zealand and regional economy & Dr Jim Hinkley, Dr Ramesh Rayudu, Mr Kyle Hall, Dr Ellie Khaghani |
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Study on beam-to-column connections of cold-formed steel portal frames for low-cost and sustainable constructions |
Dipti Ranjan Sahoo; Dept. of Civil Engineering |
James B. P. Lim Professor Dept of Civil Engineering & Jason Maxwell Ingham Professor and Head Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, The University of Auckland |
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Andreev reflection in twisted bilayer graphene junctions: effect of magnetic field |
Sankalpa Ghosh
Dept. of Physics
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Ulrich Otto Peter Zuelicke; Formerly Head of School, School of Chemical and Physical Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington |
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Deciphering the genome-wide DNA methylation and transcriptomic signature of hypoxia in meningioma |
Ritu Kulshrestha
Dept. of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology
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Dr Aniruddha Chatterjee; Associate Dean Research, Dunedin School of Medicine, Univ of Otago |
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Understanding exit choice behaviour in metro stations using virtual reality |
Ramachandra Rao Kalaga
Dept. of Civil Engineering & Geetam Tewari Dept. of Civil Engineering
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Ruggiero Lovreglio Senior Lecturer in Digital Construction School of Built Environment, Massey University & Zhenan Feng Lecturer in in Digital Construction School of Built Environment, Massey University, New Zealand |
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Discovering novel long non-coding RNA associated with epigenetic signatures colorectal cancer and dissecting their role in tumor heterogeneity |
Ishaan Gupta
Dept. of Biochemical Engineering & Biotechnology
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Aniruddha Chatterjee Associate Professor Associate Dean Research (Dunedin School of Medicine) Rutherford Discovery Fellow |
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Adaptive Drone Swarms for Precision Agriculture and Wildlife Conservation |
Smruti Ranjan Sarangi
Dept. of Computer Science & Engineering
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Barbara Bollard Professor Engineering, Computer & Mathematical Sciences & Ashray Doshi UAS Engineer AUT Drone Lab |
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Digital Twin base Health Management of Wind Turbine Power Train
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Ashish Kamalakar Darpe; Dept. of Mechanical Engineering |
Ramesh Rayudu Associate Professor Deputy Head of School Engineering and Computer Science School of Engineering |
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Building Code Checker Model on BIM Structural Plans using AI Approach (BuildBIMAI) |
Vasant A Matsagar; Dept. of Civil Engineering & Souvik Chakraborty Dept. of Applied Mechanics |
Chitrakala Muthuveerappan; Architectural Science and Management
Wellington School of Architecture & Marc Aurel Schnabel; Architecture and Design Innovation, Victoria University of Wellington
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Design of an electron cyclotron resonance based magnetically steered plasma thruster |
Debaprasad Sahu; Dept. of Energy Science and Engineering & Vikrant Saxena Dept. of Physics; Ramesh Narayanan Dept. of Energy Science and Engineering |
John Cater; Faculty of Engineering, The University of Auckland & Nicholas Rattenbury |
- A total of US$100,000 would be available, including cost sharing match.
- Ten awards are expected to be made.
- It is a one-time award with no opportunity for renewal.
- A 50% cost share is required from IIT Delhi and a New Zealand university for each project.
- A maximum of US$10,000 may be requested for each project.
- The seed grant funds cannot be used for faculty salary or stipend, indirect/administrative costs, to hire a consultant or contractor, or for general equipment expenses (laptops, ipads, printers, etc.). Please inquire with your university contact for clarification if an expense is allowable.
- Allowable expenses include travel, lab supplies and other expenditures in support of the long term project development
- Applications are open to academics at all of New Zealand’s eight universities.
- Applications are open to all IIT Delhi full time faculty.
- Applications require a minimum of one New Zealand university academic and IIT Delhi academic
A panel of faculty drawn from New Zealand universities and IIT Delhi will evaluate and select the projects to be funded.
Funding priority will be given to projects that:
• Advance a self-supporting collaborative research concept with the potential to produce scholarship of high academic value.
• Strengthen the connectivity and relationship between New Zealand universities and IIT Delhi.
• Creates a team with faculty members from both universities.
The evaluation criteria and weighting:
• A visible strategy to create a self-supporting, sustainable collaboration program after the seed money expires (50%)
• Research/Academic excellence (25%)
• Project idea and quality (25%)
- Proposals are to be prepared and submitted with agreement from all participating researchers.
- Proposals are to be submitted through an MFIRP online form by the IITD lead investigator. Therefore, it is crucial that collaborating NZ academics, liaise closely with their IITD counterparts. A copy of the MFIRP online form can be found here.
- The IITD Principal Investigator will be responsible for submitting the final proposal on/before the deadline.
