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RCUK Office in India logoWelcome to the website of the Research Councils UK India. RCUK is the strategic partnership of the UK's seven Research Councils. Each year the Research Councils invest around £3 billion in research covering the full spectrum of academic disciplines from the medical and biological sciences to astronomy, physics, chemistry and engineering, social sciences, economics, and the arts and humanities.

The RCUK Office in India was launched in October 2008 with an aim to bring about a step change in research partnerships between the two countries and make it easier for the best researchers in UK and India to develop high-quality, high impact research partnerships by:

  • developing positive, sustainable and influential relationships with key stakeholders.
  • supporting the facilitation of high quality research collaborations between India and the UK.
  • building the profile of the RCUK office to influence policy and deliver valuable, high impact outputs.

RCUK India News


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  • NERC’s Centre for Ecology and Hydrology visit India
    Professor Mark Bailey, the Director and Professor Alan Jenkins, the Deputy Director of the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology visited India from 15-18 April. This aim of their visit was to help raise the profile of CEH and seek to establish institutional partnerships with high-quality research institutes in India.
    13 May 2013

  • BBSRC-DBT announce a joint call for proposals for Crop Genomics
    BBSRC and India’s Department of Biotechnology have announced a joint call for proposals for collaborative research projects that underpin the use of genomics and associated bioinformatics approaches to address crop improvement. This is following a successful BBSRC-DBT workshop held in May 2012, in Norwich UK, which RCUK India and Science and Innovation Network facilitated.
    2 Apr 2013

  • Cyber security workshop brings together top researchers from India and the UK
    Research Councils UK (RCUK) and India’s Department of Science and Technology have brought together top researchers from India and the UK for a workshop in New Delhi to discuss cyber security, a pressing transnational issue demanding global cooperation.
    26 Mar 2013


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Contact details for the RCUK India Team can be found here.