Registrations are invited for ISRO START Programme 2023. The last date of registration is July 15, 2023.
The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) is the national space agency of India, headquartered in Bangalore.
ISRO encourages greater participation from academia, for generating human resources in space science and technology, expanding the user base of the space exploration mission data, and fostering an ecosystem to facilitate active participation of the students in space science and technology research.
In view of this, ISRO has envisaged the Space science and Technology Awareness Training (START) programme. START is an introductory level awareness programme in space science and technology. The programme is envisaged to be organised in online mode in order to reach out to as many of the space enthusiasts as possible.
Although primarily aimed at the under-graduate and post-graduate students of science and technology, the programme is designed to be suitable for any individual with a basic, systematic training in science, at least up to the high school level.
Online training is tentatively scheduled to be conducted during July-Aug 2023. The training programme is about 2-3 hrs / day for a duration of 2 – 3 weeks. The START programme will be conducted through ISRO E-CLASS platform.
The lecture modules are thematically arranged to address different facets of space science and technology like Earth and Near-Earth Space, Solar System Exploration, Space Mission Design and Observations, Astronomy, Astrophysics, Cosmology, as well as technological aspects like accessing the space, space instrumentation, etc. In addition to these, there will be lectures on Indian space exploration programme and research opportunities in the fields of space science and technology.
START is aimed to reach out to the maximum beneficiaries not only to students belonging to Indian Institutions but also to any interested individuals. The students of approved nodal centres as well as individuals can register and join the online training programme by choosing the appropriate category for registration as detailed below.
Post-graduate students and final year under graduate students of physical sciences (Physics and Chemistry) and technology (e.g. Electronics, Computer Science, Mechanical, Applied Physics, Radiophysics, Optics & Opto-electronics, Instrumentation and other associated subjects) studying in START host institutes/nodal centres, are eligible to be considered for the training under this category. Participation certificate / merit certificate will be provided to the eligible students.
Interested individual participants (including students who are not eligible / could not join through the category-1) of any background can directly register and attend the live sessions through Youtube Channel of IIRS. Participation certificate will be provided to the eligible participants.
Public can watch the live sessions of START for knowledge gain without registering in the website.
START programme is offered by ISRO free of cost. There is no registration fee / admission fee.
Interested participants can register online via this link.
The last date of registration is July 15, 2023.
Email: websupport[at]iirs[dot]gov[dot]in
