ISRO encourages research activities at Academia. Interested institutions can be engaged with ISRO centres for carrying out R&D activities in the ISRO focussed areas. The following kinds of engagement is possible for carrying out joint research.

1. Sponsored Research: ISRO publishes focussed areas for research in the space domain and seek proposals from qualified academic institutions for joint research. PI will be identified by the institution, where as Co-PI will be joining from ISRO for carrying out the projects. The project including timeline and budget will be mutually agreed upon and reviewed thoroughly by Joint Management Committees / technical committees with in ISRO centres, before the project is approved. The approved amount shall be released in phases subject to meeting the conditions of the MOU. For more details refer page: Sponsored Research
   
2. ISRO cells: ISRO also established cells at various premier engineering institutions for carrying out Joint research. Space Technology Cells (STC) are instituted at IITs’ and IISc for advanced research with the respective institution. Space Technology Innovation Centre(STIC) at NITs in various regions to focus on entrepreneurial oriented projects and Regional Academia Centres for Space (RAC-S) are instituted at NITs in the different regions to encourage the collaborative projects in space in that region. In additional various centre of excellences, Innovation centres and space science centres are also instituted to promote the research in space. The details are available at Academia
   
3. In addition, based on the requirement ISRO centres, located across the country publishes “Expression of Interest” in focussed areas, time to time. The same will be given good coverage in the website / social media of ISRO and individual centre websites.

In case of any query or clarification you can write to:

Director,Capacity Building and Public Outreach (CBPO),
Indian Space Research Organization Hq,
Department of Space, Government of India,
AntarikshBhavan,
New BEL Road,
Bengaluru-560 094
Email ID:dir[dot]cbpo[at]isro[dot]gov[dot]in