A*STAR-DST Joint Grant Call on Digital Health/Medical Technologies & Green Hydrogen

Closes On

16 May 2025

Funding Source

External

PI Salary Support

ACP/SDDC Affiliation

No ACP/SDDC affiliation required

Funding Per Grant Amount

S$ 250,000

Qualification

Not Specified

Academic Appointment

Funding Period

3 years

Citizenship

Foreigner / S / PR

Call Opens

01 Apr 2025

SMC/SDC Registered

Objective
The Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR), Singapore and the Department of Science & Technology (DST), Government of India jointly announce the A*STAR-DST Joint Grant Call on Digital Health/Medical Technologies & Green Hydrogen call for proposals.

The aim of the grant is to encourage joint collaboration in the research areas of "Digital Health/Medical Technologies" and "Green Hydrogen" between Singaporean and Indian research institutes.

Funding Details
Expenditure by project team in their country would be borne by the respective country, i.e., DST would support expenditure on Indian side of the project whereas A*STAR would meet the expenditure of Singapore side.

There is a maximum of S$250,000 (inclusive of 30% overheads) per joint project to the Singapore applicant for over three years.

Eligibility
Each proposal must involve one PI from Singapore and one PI from India. It is optional to have a Co-I in the proposal.

Please find the eligibility criteria in the table below.

Country	Applicant
Singapore	Singaporean Applicants must reside in Singapore and be full-time employed researchers at a Singapore public sector research organisation. Researchers from SingHealth and her cluster institutions are welcome to apply.
India	Indian Project Lead and Co-Is should be scientists/faculty members working in regular capacity in universities, academic institutes and national research and development laboratories/institutes. The Indian Project Lead and Co-Is should not be retiring or leaving the parent institute during the proposed duration of the project. The Indian scientist involved in any way in the implementation of two or more projects supported by DST (International Group) that are not expected to be completed by March 31, 2025 are not eligible to be a member of Research team/Project Lead.

Submission

Applications must be submitted online.

Singapore-based applicants must submit the joint applications via A*STAR's Integrated Grant Management System (iGrants) system (internet accessible link) by 16 May 2025 (Friday), 23:59pm.
Indian applicants must submit the joint applications to DST on format available at www.onlinedst.gov.in by 16 May 2025 (Friday), 5:00pm India time.
(internet accessible link).

Note: The project proposal must be submitted to A*STAR by the Singapore-based applicant and to DST by the Indian-based applicant respectively.

Each application must be endorsed by the Host Institution's Research Director (or equivalent) of the Singapore's and India's PI prior to submission. This is to ensure that there is organisational support for the PIs to participate in the grant call.

Note: SingHealth PIs are to please refer to your respective Institutional Research Administrators for guidance on internal deadlines and submission procedures set by your institutions.

Contact person

Singapore - A*STAR