Vaibhav Scheme : 75 Indian Diaspora Scientists Return To India
75 Indian Diaspora Scientists to return to India under Government’s Vaibhav Scheme.
- The first group of 22 fellows has already been chosen to the scheme meant to attract Indian-origin scientists based abroad for short-term collaboration with Indian institutions.
- Twenty-two scientists, mostly based at North American and European institutes including the California Institute of Technology, the University of Oxford, the University of Michigan, the University of Geneva, the University of Waterloo, Canada, and the University of Oslo, will spend anywhere from a month or two annually, for a maximum of three years, at host Indian institutes.
- The Vaishwik Bhartiya Vaigyanik (VAIBHAV) Fellowship is a program implemented by the Department of Science & Technology, Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India.
- The program aims to foster collaboration between scientists of the Indian Diaspora and Indian Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs), Universities, and/or Public Funded Scientific Institutions.
