[August 2025]
Are you looking for personal funding opportunities in India in 2025? Whether you’re a student, researcher, artist, freelancer or someone seeking financial support to pursue your goals, this curated listing is just what you need! India offers a wide range of funding programs—from government grants and scholarships to fellowships and contests—designed to empower individuals across sectors.
Prime Minister Professorship Grant Program – India
Deadline: 01-Sep-2025
The Anusandhan National Research Foundation has launched a call for proposals under the PM Professorship program to harness the expertise of superannuated scientists and faculty from reputed institutions, research labs, and industry. The initiative is aimed at improving research ecosystems in less endowed state universities by placing experienced mentors who can raise the standard of research and innovation…[more]
Apply Now: Proposal for Research in Cyber Security (India)
Deadline: 15-Sep-2025
The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology is inviting proposals that focus on innovation and indigenous technology development, aiming to lead to productization. Proposals should align with the ministry’s identified thrust areas…[more]
Call for Submissions: Kirloskar Art Grant (India)
Deadline: 31-Aug-2025
The S. L. Kirloskar CSR Foundation has announced the Kirloskar Art Grant, reflecting the Kirloskar Group’s commitment to using art and culture as tools for meaningful societal transformation. This annual grant is dedicated to supporting lens-based practitioners who push the limits of visual storytelling…[more]
SSAF–AAA Research Grant for Archiving Histories of Art, Ideas, and Visual Culture (India)
Deadline: 15-Sep-2025
The Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation (SSAF) and Asia Art Archive (AAA) in India have announced the SSAF–AAA Research Grant for Archiving Histories of Art, Ideas, and Visual Culture. This grant supports interdisciplinary efforts to document and explore fragile and often inaccessible archives, particularly those involving visual and cultural print materials such as books, pamphlets, posters, journals, and ephemera. Emphasizing regional languages, the initiative seeks to uncover material that is out of circulation or not held in public collections, aiming to make them accessible and relevant…[more]
Apply for the Inlaks Research and Travel Grant (India)
Deadline: 31-Aug-2025
The Inlaks Research and Travel Grant supports registered PhD students at Indian universities who wish to undertake short-term visits to institutions abroad. The grant allows them to collect research material, use academic facilities, and consult international experts in their field of study. It is specifically available to PhD scholars in the humanities and social sciences…[more]
The Inlaks-King’s India Institute Studentship Grant
Deadline: 31-Aug-2025
The Inlaks Research and Travel Grant supports PhD scholars currently enrolled at Indian universities to undertake a short-term research visit to the King’s India Institute at King’s College London. This visit is intended to help students collect materials, use academic facilities, and consult with experts relevant to their research…[more]
Education Future International Scholarship Program (India)
Deadline: Ongoing
Submissions are now open for Education Future International Scholarship, a unique scholarship fund that has been created by the scholarship winners worldwide. All the like-minded winners have come to a decision to fund the next batch of students with whatever they can contribute. This is a concept of giving back to society for the cause of education with a focus on building a brighter and smarter future…[more]
Request for Applications: International Travel Scheme (India)
Deadline: Ongoing
The Anusandhan National Research Foundation is requesting applications for its International Travel Support Scheme to provide financial assistance to Indian researchers for presenting a research paper in an international scientific event held abroad…[more]
Applications open for WISE-SCOPE Fellowship Program – India
Deadline: 31 August 2025
The Department of Science & Technology (DST) is seeking applications for its Women In Science and Engineering (WISE)-Societal Challenges with Opportunities (SCOPE) Fellowship Program 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…[more]
Nominations open for Hiyoshi Awards (India)
Deadline: 31-Aug-25
Nominations are now open for the Hiyoshi Awards to recognize those who are doing novel, innovative, outstanding scientific research and application in the field of environmental conservation and protection in India…[more]
Applications open for TOTO Awards for Music (India)
Deadline: 30-Sep-2025
The 2026 TOTO Awards for Music invite young Indian artists to submit their original music for recognition, celebrating creativity, innovation, and excellence across all genres and languages…[more]
Documentary Film Fellowships 2025–26 (India)
Deadline: 20-Sep-2025
Rough Edges and the Mrinalini Mukherjee Foundation invite applications for the 2025–26 Documentary Film Fellowships to support artistic research, experimentation, and the creation of evocative films that explore innovative ideas and nuanced perspectives…[more]
Call for Proposals: Arts Research Programme (India)
Deadline: 10 September 2025
The Arts Research programme, re-launched in 2025, recognises the value of different and flexible approaches to research in the arts. Under this programme, they implement projects that explore forms of knowing and thinking that are rooted in creative, scholarly and/ or cultural practice, and bring out diverse perspectives on histories and expressions of artistic practice in India to foster a deeper understanding of the arts through enquiry, interaction, reflection, and experimentation…[more]
Open Call for Ahimsa Fellowship (India)
Deadline: Ongoing
The Ahimsa Fellowship offers a unique and impactful experience for individuals passionate about animal welfare. Through rigorous and intensive training over the course of eight months, Fellows gain the knowledge and tools for effective advocacy, policy engagement, and on-the-ground action…[more]
Request for Proposals: Workshops/Residencies (Arts Practice) – India
Deadline: Ongoing
The India Foundation for the Arts (IFA) invites applications for the Workshops/Residencies under its Arts Practice programme. The Arts Practice programme seeks to implement projects where artists expand their present range of practices in new directions. These could question accepted conventions, push new frontiers in content, form, and medium, and explore new modes of engagement with space, audience, and communities, foregrounding a spirit of experimentation…[more]
60-Day Special Skill Development Program (SSDP) under T-DRIVE Initiative – India
Deadline: Ongoing
T-Hub is now inviting applications for its 60-day Special Skill Development Program (SSDP) under the T-DRIVE initiative. The 60-day Special Skill Development Program (SSDP) under T-DRIVE equips students with practical exposure to India’s defence innovation ecosystem. The program covers defence procurement, Make in India policies, emerging technologies, career opportunities, defence innovation & R&D, hands-on project work, industry tours, access to the T-Hub innovation ecosystem, and sessions by defence advisors & leaders…[more]
Open Call: TOTO Awards for Creative Writing in English (India)
Deadline: 15-Sep-2025
The 2026 TOTO Awards for Creative Writing in English invite young Indian writers to submit original works of poetry, short stories, or short plays that showcase originality, craft, and a strong literary voice…[more]
Mascot Design Contest for PM-Surya Ghar-Muft Bijli Yojana (India)
Deadline: 13-Sep-2025
The Ministry of New and Renewable Energy in colloboration with MyGov invites citizens to submit entries for a Mascot Design Competition that embodies the vision of clean energy and solar empowerment under the PM-Surya Ghar: Muft Bijli Yojana…[more]
Apply for NHRC’s Short Film Competition (India)
Deadline: 31 August 2025
The National Human Rights Commission invites short films for its ‘Short Film Competition-2025’, which aims at recognizing the creative efforts towards promotion and protection of human rights…[more]
Design a Logo for the Senior Citizen Portal in India
Deadline: 03-Sep-2025
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has introduced a new digital initiative—the Senior Citizen Portal. This platform is designed to offer senior citizens easy access to welfare schemes, services, and mechanisms for addressing grievances, all in one place…[more]
Create a Slogan and Tagline for the Senior Citizen Portal (India)
Deadline: 03-Sep-2025
The Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment has launched the Senior Citizen Portal, a dedicated digital platform designed to provide easy access to welfare schemes, essential services, and grievance redressal for senior citizens…[more]
Essay Writing Contest – Revisiting the Emergency After 50 Years (India)
Deadline: 24-Sep-25
The Ministry of Education, Department of School Education & Literacy, Government of India in collaboration with MyGov, invites citizens to participate in an Essay Writing Contest on the theme Revisiting the Emergency After 50 Years, commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Emergency declared in India in 1975…[more]
