DST WISE Scope Fellowship 2025 for Women [Grant of Rs. 2L]: Apply by Aug 31

Applications are invited for DST WISE Scope Fellowship 2025 for Women. The last date of application is 31st August, 2025.

Societal challenges refer to problems and issues that affect societies on a large scale, often spanning across multiple domain such as environment, technology, health, energy, waste, water, management, agriculture, economic, and more.

The Women In Science and Engineering (WISE)-Societal Challenges with Opportunities (SCOPE) Fellowship Program of the Department of Science & Technology (DST) aims to provide opportunity to Women Scientists and Technologists who have completed Ph.D. and want to utilize their S&T knowledge and expertise for the benefit of society.

This program supports projects that address grassroots challenges through Science & Technology (S&T) interventions. It aims to provide S&T solutions for societal issues such as:

Project proposals should focus on developing viable technologies that can be transferred from lab-to-land, adapted, and scaled for societal benefits. The broad thematic areas include: