The National Institute of Technology, Tiruchi, has been awarded 11 projects under the scheme for promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration (SPARC), an initiative of the Ministry of Human Resource Development.
SPARC aims at promoting a research ecosystem at higher learning institutes by facilitating academic and research collaborations between reputed Indian institutions and top-ranked international institutes so as to provide solutions to problems of national and international relevance, according to a NIT-T press release.
IIT, Kharagpur, is the national coordinating institute and nodal institutions involved in it will implement the scheme to significantly enhance the research collaboration with best institutes abroad, thereby improving the research scenario in the country. NITT is the nodal institute for research collaborations with Sweden under SPARC.
Eleven faculty members belonging to various disciplines of science and engineering have been sanctioned ₹7 crore to take up the collaborative research. Nearly 23 project proposals were processed by NITT. Two other projects were sanctioned under UKERI SPARC support programme. Mini Shaji Thomas, Director, NIT-T, congratulated the faculty members who have been awarded the projects, the release added.