An online workshop on “Scientific Writing” was organized by Capacity Building Programme Office (CBPO) ISRO HQ on 31st March 2021 for the benefit of faculty, research scholars and others from academia, especially the research scholars working in the ISRO sponsored projects taken up under Space Technology Cells (STCs), Regional Academic Centre for Space (RAC-S), Space Technology Incubation Centres (S-TIC) and RESPOND.

The aim of this workshop was to create awareness about finding gaps in the existing literature, doing quality research, reproducibility of results, how to convert the work into a good research paper, publishing it in a reputed journal, how to choose a journal and ethics in publishing etc.

The Workshop was inaugurated by Shri A S Kiran kumar, Former Chairman, ISRO. Prof Alok Porwal, Professor and Head, CSRE, IIT Bombay and Dr P V Venkitakrishnan, Director, CBPO, ISRO HQ spoke during inaugural session. Dr M A Paul, Associate Director, RESPOND, expressed vote of thanks.

The sessions were handled by two eminent speakers namely Ms. Swati Meherishi, Editorial Director, Applied Science and Engineering, Springer and Dr. S.V.S. Narayana Murty, Scientist, Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre, Trivandrum. It was followed by an hour interaction session with the participants. Around 1000 participants from academia participated in the programme.