SUPRA

•Lauched by The Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB)

•Scientific and Useful Profound Research Advancement (SUPRA) with the objective of funding exploration of new scientific and engineering breakthroughs with global impact.

•The scheme will fund disruptive ideas that can lead to new areas of study, new scientific concepts, new products and technologies.

•The focus is not on incremental or short-term advances in understanding, but new science or truly disruptive technologies.

•The scheme is designed to attract high quality research proposals consisting of new hypotheses or challenge existing ones and provide 'out-of-box' solutions.