Last Updated: 22 Oct 2025

SPARC (Scheme for Promotion of Academic and Research Collaboration)

The scheme enhances India’s higher education research ecosystem through global academic collaborations. It connects Indian institutions with top institutions from 28 nations to address national and international challenges.

  • Aim:  To improve the research ecosystem of India's HEIs.
  • Facilitating academic and research collaborations between Indian Institutions and the best institutions in the world from 28 selected nations to jointly solve problems of national and/or international relevance.
  • Eligibility: All Indian Institutions ranked in the overall top-100 or category-wise top-100 in the India Rankings (NIRF-2019) are eligible to apply.
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