Academia
Recognising the need for a broader academic interface with institutions across the country, a series of capacity building initiatives have been taken up to further strengthen the involvement of academia for ISRO programmes. These initiatives include:
- Sponsored Research (RESPOND)
- Regional Academic Centres for Space [RAC-S]
- Space Technology Incubation Centres [S-TICs]
- Space Technology Cells [STC]
- Space Innovation Centre
- ISRO Chairs
- Centre of Excellence on Advanced Mechanics of Materials
- Satish Dhawan Centre for Space Science
- Centre for Nano Science & Engineering (CeNSE)
Each of the above programmes is uniquely designed to achieve a specific objective, such as encouraging students towards entrepreneurship [S-TIC], leveraging academic rigour of institute in a particular domain for benefit of ISRO [S-NAP], motivating Academicians to tackle challenging problems [ISRO Chairs] and raising the overall research aptitude of an institute in space domain [RAC-S]