Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur

Our partnership with IIT Kharagpur works on critical challenges related to rural communities.

IIT Kharagpur is a strategic partner for College of Science and Engineering at University of Edinburgh, building on the long-standing relations and expanding collaborations.

Research collaboration

One of our impactful research collaborations with IIT Kharagpur explored tidal energy for sustainable electricity supply in the Sundarbans, West Bengal. The project group was the first to produce a map of potential energy sites in Sundarbans.

Over years, both the institutions have developed an online/hybrid summer school, aided by UK India Education and Research Initiative (UKIERI) mobility grant and British Council Going Global Partnership Grant. 

Seed funding call now open

Researchers in themes of rural energy, water, food and health and advanced manufacturing at IIT Kharagpur and Edinburgh are invited to apply.

Proposals should be sustainable with a plan for engagement that includes providing outstanding developmental experience for participating students, building, or consolidating long-term collaborations, leveraging external funding and publication outputs.

Around 8-10 proposals will be funded, depending on the average cost of those supported, each with two Principal Investigators: one from Edinburgh and one from IIT Kharagpur.

Applications are open to any eligible Principal Investigator from the College of Science and Engineering at University of Edinburgh and Faculties of IIT Kharagpur.

Colleagues from College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine and College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences are encouraged to apply as Co-Principal Investigators to develop interdisciplinary proposals.

Each successful proposal may receive up to a maximum of three months research student mobility in each direction.

The application deadline is: 24 May 2024, 5:00pm GMT UK / 24 May 2024, 10:30pm IST

Apply for seed funding (secured)

Over recent years we have worked very closely with IIT Kharagpur on critical challenges related to the water-energy-food-health nexus. This has included joint research, staff and student mobility, summer schools and seminars. We look forward to ever deeper cooperation, leading to increased societal and educational impacts.