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Challenge Awards 2021 on Solar Energy under Technology Mission Division-EWO, DST

November 4, 2021

Designation/Position- Challenge Awards 2021

Technology Mission Division-EWO, DST invites application for Challenge Awards 2021 from eligible and interested candidates

About- Clean energy research initiative encourages interventions where knowledge advanced than current industrial practices are supported for future breakthrough technologies. The promising leads are promoted to move up the technology chain and are taken to higher technology readiness levels. The initiative recognizes the importance of creating an ecosystem for clean energy research and innovations with the involvement of stakeholders and places due emphasis on creating required capacities and capabilities to position country in eminent position in clean energy research landscape.

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Designation/Position- Challenge Awards 2021
Research/Job Area-
Location- India
Eligibility/Qualification–
Job/Position Description-
How to Apply-
Last Date for Apply– 31 December 2021

Challenge Awards 2021

Summary

Clean energy research initiative encourages interventions where knowledge advanced than current industrial practices are supported for future breakthrough technologies.
The promising leads are promoted to move up the technology chain and are taken to higher technology readiness levels.
The consortium proposals are to be led by faculties/ scientists working in regular position in recognized academic institutions, public funded R&D Institution/ Laboratories, DSIR recognized SIRO organization.
The industrial partner should have proven standing and R& D capability in the proposed area.
The proposal will be evaluated based on the following criteria: Scientific and Technical merit . Expertise, facilities and track record and ability of the Project Investigation Team to achieve the research goals.
The proposals should clearly define the objectives and list the deliverables.
The CV of the project investigators should be brief and highlight their competence and experience related to the proposed project area.
Consortia is desirable with roles and responsibilities of each partner.

Research/Job Area-

The interdisciplinary and transformative R&D proposals lead to the development of efficient devices and systems that could be adopted in the real field/industry utilization with well-identified /suitably quantified targets addressing scientific and technological challenges. Objectives having focus on fundamental science, material science and study of properties, etc. would not be acceptable under the award. The scientific outcome of the proposal should dwell upon the options for industrial /societal scale-up of the targeted devices.

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Location- India

Eligibility/Qualification–

The consortium proposals are to be led by faculties/ scientists working in regular position in recognized academic institutions, public funded R&D Institution/ Laboratories, DSIR recognized SIRO organization in partnership with other academic/ R&D organization etc.
Participation of industries/ start-ups and industry association is desirable.
The industrial partner should have proven standing and R&D capability in the proposed area.
Faculties of recognized universities and academic institutions, scientists working in National Laboratories, R&D institutions and Research organizations recognized and Start-ups could be part of consortium.

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA: The proposal will be evaluated based on the following criteria:

Scientific and Technical merit .
Expertise, facilities and track record and ability of the Project Investigation Team to achieve the research goals.
Proposal formulation (Precision in objective, adequacy and completeness of literature review, preliminary work done, highest efficiency achieved by group in previous year with declared active area (efficiency table showing targeted Jsc, Voc, FF), clearly mentioned stability (under air, heat and light) already achieved by the group and expected stability, proposed encapsulation strategies, methodology, device architecture and work plan.
Resources requested for purpose in effectiveness of planning and utilization of existing assets nationally etc.

DST at the behest of the Expert Panel may introduce/ change criteria for critical evaluation of award.

Job/Position Description-

Project duration: Upto 3 years

The proposals should clearly define the objectives and list the deliverables.
The CV of the project investigators should be brief and highlight their competence and experience related to the proposed project area. Consortia is desirable with roles and responsibilities of each partner.
The industry partner should have proven standing and R&D capability in Energy Technologies and should exhibit the potential to commercialize the products/systems developed under the proposal.
The extent of participation and contribution of the industry partner should be clearly defined. Participating Industry would be required to invest within its own system i.e. production/ test lines and/or develop required infrastructure to adopt research leads and is expected to bring design and engineering capability for the benefit of the project.

Objective of the Challenge Awards

Setting up a virtual platform for standardization of devices and modules:
A link-up work plan for facilitating access to research infrastructure
Applied research work package:
A multi-institutional approach

How to Apply-

Proposals are accepted only online at e-PMS under Technology Mission Division in the prescribed format within the prescribed closing Date/Time. Proposal format can be downloaded from Website https://onlinedst.gov.in/Login.aspx . Go to: Schemes And Formats : Technology Mission Division :[Challenge Award 2021:Solar Energy] : Download Call format.

Kindly take care of following instructions while submission of proposal

Before filling up the form, Indian applicants are advised to carefully go through the relevant call document and guidelines at the DST Website (https://dst.gov.in /) and also available under Proposal Formats in the e-PMS Portal after logging in to the portal site.
To save time and avoid data loss, please download the appropriate proposal format and fill all the information required as per the format as a Word and PDF file and then keep it ready for upload during submission of mandatory documents.
Click on the “Submit proposals” link which would take to a page seeking multiple information starting with – General information, Principal investigator etc.:
After filling in all the above particulars, there is a provision to preview your details before the final submission of the application form by clicking on the “Preview” button. The preview page will display all facts/particulars that have been mentioned on entry time. If the applicant is sure with filled details, then click on the “Submit” button to finally push data into the server.
Applicants are advised to carefully fill in and verify the details required for the online application themselves, as no change will be possible/ entertained after clicking the FINAL SUBMIT BUTTON.