Important dates : 15th July 2007 is the last date for the receipt of completed proposals. The results will be announced by the last week of August. Funds will be made available to the successful grantee by the first week of September.
Scope of the grant
The grant will support scientific wildlife research as well as research based wildlife conservation and outreach activities in India.
The grant money for research will not exceed Rs.50,000 per year and will give a preference to proposals on wild dogs.
The grant will provide funding to students and to researchers for short term projects or for small independent components of larger projects.
What is eligible for support ?
The NBERIG will support:
- Pure academic research
- Conservation based research
- Field based research
- Conservation based outreach activities
- Travel to conferences, seminars or scientific meetings
- Only purchase of equipment
- International travel
- Purchase of laptop, computer, vehicle or other expensive equipment
- · Tuition fees.
- · Salary for PI (though a modest per diem and salary for field assistants are acceptable)
Who is eligible to apply?
Persons of Indian nationality wishing to conduct scientific research or conservation based research and activities in the field of ecology and wildlife biology in India may apply for this grant.
All above conditions not withstanding if you think your research should be supported, do write to us for clarifications.
Please address all questions to: nberig@gmail.com. You can get more information about this grant at http://www.nias.iisc.ernet.in/
Source: email communication from Bharath Sundaram [bharath@atree.org]
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