{"id":14749,"date":"2020-04-10T15:29:21","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T09:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=14749"},"modified":"2020-04-10T15:29:21","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T09:59:21","slug":"covid-19scientific-initiatives-and-organizations-in-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/covid-19scientific-initiatives-and-organizations-in-news\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19:Scientific initiatives and Organizations in News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Intensification of Research in High Priority Area (IRPHA) scheme:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It was launched by the Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB) to support projects in high priority areas from the viewpoint of advances in fundamental science.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It is a statutory body established through an Act of Parliament in 2008.<\/li><li>It is chaired by the Secretary to the Department of Science and Technology and has other senior government officials and eminent scientists as members.&nbsp;<\/li><li><strong>Aim:<\/strong>To promote basic research in science and engineering and to provide financial assistance to scientists, academic institutions and other agencies for such research.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>National Innovation Foundation(NIF):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>It was set up in 2000 as an autonomous body under the Department of Science and Technology.<\/li><li><strong>Aim:<\/strong>To help India become a creative and knowledge-based society by expanding policy and institutional space for grassroots technological innovators.<\/li><li><strong>Situated at: <\/strong>Ahmedabad,Gujarat.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Initiatives by NIF:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>INSPIRE Award \u2013 MANAK:<\/strong>It is being executed by the Department of Science &amp; Technology and NIF to motivate school children in the group of 10-15 years and studying in classes 6 to 10 for original ideas\/ innovations rooted in science and societal applications.<\/li><li><strong>Micro Venture Innovation Fund(MVIF):<\/strong>It was established by NIF with support from Small Industries Development Bank of India (SIDBI) to provide risk capital to innovation based enterprise projects.<\/li><li><strong>IGNITE:<\/strong>It is an annual competition for student\u2019s ideas and innovations conducted by NIF in partnership with the Central Board of Secondary Education(CBSE).<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facts: Intensification of Research in High Priority Area (IRPHA) scheme: It was launched by the Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB) to support projects in high priority areas from the viewpoint of advances in fundamental science. Science and Engineering Research Board(SERB): It is a statutory body established through an Act of Parliament in 2008. It is&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/covid-19scientific-initiatives-and-organizations-in-news\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">COVID-19:Scientific initiatives and Organizations in News<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1731],"tags":[1087,7713,7714],"class_list":["post-14749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bill-and-acts","tag-covid-19","tag-organizations","tag-scientific-initiative","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704790801},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}