Women Scientists Scheme 2015 by Department of Science & Technology India

DST – Department of Science & Technology as a part of Women Scientist scheme , is now inviting applications from all the interested female candidates for 8^th  batch of KIRAN IPR – Women Scientists scheme.

There are three categories under DST- Women Scientist Scheme, WOS-A, WOS-B and  WOS-C  . This particular Scheme , KIRAN IPR 2015 comes under WOS-C.

About Women Scientist Scheme – WOS C 2015:
This category is mainly focused to provide opportunities to the women scientists for the self employment, by utilizing their specializes knowledge in the following areas,

• Patenting
• Proof reading
• Science journalism
• Technical translation
• Clinical pathology labs
• Medical transcription etc.

The Aim of this scheme is to train women scientists having qualifications in science/engineering/ medicine or allied areas in the area of (IPR) Intellectual Property Rights and their management for a period of 1 year and develop a pool of women scientists geared up in creating, protecting and managing intellectual property in India.

Selection Procedure:  Selection will be made through an all India Examination and interview

Training Details
All the selected candidates will be trained, and the training will include 1 to 2 months of intensive orientation programme on IPR at New Delhi, India.

The candidates will be placed as interns in any of the Coordination Centres for hands-on-training at

• Delhi,
• Pune,
• Chennai, and
• Kharagpur

Stipend:

• 20,000/-Per Month for BTech/MSc/MBBS/BPharma or equivalent

• 30,000/- Per Month for MTech/PhD/ MVSc/ MPharma or equivalent during the training.

Eligibility: Only Women with Indian Nationality are Eligible to apply.

Age Limit : Minimum 27 years; Maximum 45 years as on 01-06-2015.

Educational Qualifications:  Master of Science; Bachelors in Engineering/Technology or any other equivalent Qualification.

How to Apply – Women Scientist Scheme 2015 ?
Interested candidates can only submit their applications through online by visiting any of the following three websites.

1. dst.gov.in
2. tifac.org.in
3. pfc.org.in

Last Date to Submit the Applications: July 19th 2015.

KIRAN-IPR (WOS C) Notification
http://dst.gov.in/scientific-programme/women-scientists.htm#w

Women Scientist Scheme DST complete Details
http://dst.gov.in/whats_new/whats_new15/WOSC-KIRAN-IPR.pdf