How many of you know about BIOCARe DBT for Women

THE Department of Biotechnology Government of India Announces The Call For Proposals Under “ Biotechnology Career Advancement and Re-Orientation Programme For Women Scientists’

Conducted by: Department of Biotechnology

Programme: Biotechnology Career Advancement and Re-orientation Programme for Women Scientists

Eligibility:

• M.D/M. Tech /Ph. D/Equivalent degree in any branch of Life Sciences
• Women Scientists who are employed or unemployed or are coming back after a break.
• Women Scientists for whom it is the first grant.  (Women Scientist who have already availed any grant as PI from Government Funding Agency under WOS (A&B) of DST are not eligible to apply).
• Women Scientists upto 55 years of age
• The scheme is open to women applicants from all areas in  Life Science or biology (including agriculture, veterinary science and medicine)

Budget/Stipend:  There would be a provision for stipend fellowship amount as lumpsum in the following 3 slabs for the unemployed candidate in the budgets provision.  The slabs would be decided based on post Ph.D experience

• Grade – I   Rs.35, 000/- (Ph.D+ nil experience)
• Grade – II Rs.40,000/-(Ph.D + more than 5 years research/industrial experience)
• Grade– III Rs.45,000/-(Ph.D+ more than 10 years research/industrial experience)

Selection process:

• The candidate will have to provide proof of year of experience.
• If a selected candidate is availing a Post-Doctoral or Contractual fellowship she will have to resign from the same before accepting the project under Bio-CARe programme.

Benefits:

• For employed candidate an additional amount of Rs. 5,000/- over her salary would be provided as an incentive
• The total budget for R&D project will range from 25 lakhs to 50 lakhs. All research related expenses to be booked under Equipment, Consumables, Manpower, Contingency, Travel etc as in other ongoing R&D Schemes.                 Application Procedure will be starting from the month of April every year and has a dead line in may.
• For more details   http://dbtindia.nic.in.

• To facilitate the participation of Women Scientists in Biotechnology Research, DBT announces the launch of Bio-CARe Scheme for Career Development of employed/unemployed women scientists who have not received any extra-mural grants in the past. In order to maximize their reach, the schemes are open to applicants (aged 55 years or less on the date of application) from all areas of Life Sciences / biology (including Agriculture, Veterinary Science, Medicine and Bio-Engineering).
  
  
                Scheme I – Research Grant Opportunity (RGO):
  The programme aims at giving project grants to women scientists (employed & unemployed) for whom it would be a first grant. The purpose is to build capacities for women scientists employed fulltime in Universities and small research laboratories or unemployed women scientist after a career break so as to help them undertake independent R&D projects. Under this scheme the women scientists who are unemployed will be provided monthly emoluments ranging from Rs. 35,000/- to 45,000/- p.m. The employed women scientists in addition to salary will get an amount of Rs.5,000/- p.m as an incentive.
  
  
  
  
  
  
    Scheme II -Career Re-orientation Fellowship (CRF):
  This scheme would be mainly for women scientists who are trained in a particular area, but leave their permanent jobs / or are unemployed and would now like to change their career path to take on newer areas. Specialized skills would be essential and this would require training in the relevant field such as IP management, Bioinformatics, Policy research and analysis, Translational research, Regulation etc. This training could be for a period ranging from 3 months -12 months. Under this scheme the women scientists who are unemployed will be provided a stipend of Rs.25,000/- p.m. and employed scientists will get an amount of Rs.5,000/- p.m as an incentive in addition to their salary.