6th Regional Science & Technology Congress

(Region 5)

hosted by

University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal

(Under the auspices of Department of Science & Technology and Biotechnoloy, Govt. of West Bengal)

January 3-4, 2024

Awards & Fellowships

Outstanding Paper Award

To encourage the budding scientists, there will be an Outstanding Paper Award both at the Regional level as well as State level.

At the Regional level: The Authors of the best three Scientific Papers in each discipline will be awarded a Certificate of Merit, a Memento and a Cash Prize of Rs. 5,000/ and they will be invited to participate in the State Science and Technology Congress.
At the State level: The best three Scientific Papers in each discipline will be recognised with a Certificate of Merit, Memento and Cash Prize of Rs. 7,500/.

Research Fellowship Grant Award & Research Grant Award

The Papers of the State-level Awardees will be further examined by an Inter-sectoral Expert Committee for a Research Fellowship Grant Award / Research Grant Award to the Presenting author.

Under the Research Fellowship Grant, financial support will be provided to students who have been pursuing a PhD degree for a maximum period of 5 years.
Under the Research Grant, financial support will be provided to the Professors / Academicians for the R&D project meant for the value-addition of a product or process re-engineering that has a reference to a predefined seminal work done under Government/Private sponsorship.

Financial Support for filing Utility Patent After assessing the patentability

The Authors participating at the State Level will be encouraged to file a utility patent for which technical guidance and financial support will be provided by the Department.