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Hello!  Happy new year!!  Welcome to the January Edition of the UK Science and Innovation Network in India's Newsletter. In this edition we cover the India UK Technology Summit, which was held in New Delhi from 7- 9 Nov'16, and bought together the most exciting thought leaders, businesses, educational institutions and innovators to connect and explore the future of India-UK collaboration. SIN Spotlight Leeds Centre for Personalised Medicine and Health Top Stories 'Smart' farming - way ahead - UK India agritech partnership Swati Saxena, Senior Advisor Science & Innovation, covers the way ahead following the visit of UK experts in Precision Agriculture at the Tech Summit.   She writes about the potential of Precision Agriculture and strengthen the UK India partnership.  Read more... A sociologist in a Chem lab!                                                                                                              Aditi Sharma, Adviser Newton Fund India, attended a Newton-Bhabha funded researcher link workshop led by British Council in collaboration with Royal Society of Chemistry. The workshop was on Nano- bio materials for water purification in the picturesque district of Kottayam in Kerala. Read more... Funding Opportunities Do you want to keep up to date with all the opportunities funded through the UK's Newton Fund?  Follow this page on Newton Fund. India-UK Collaborative Industrial Research & Development Programme 2016 : 22 Feb 17     INR 1.50 Crores Grant available to Indian companies and upto £300k to UK Companies for joint co-development of Industrial R&D and innovation project in the areas of: Clean Technology Affordable Healthcare Use of ESDM technologies to provide solutions to particular societal challenges         For more details please visit here... Industry-academia partnership - India: 24 January 17 The Industry Academia Partnership Programme aims to support Indian universities in improving their engineering education and research output through strengthening industry linkages and leveraging UK expertise. For more details please visit here... Funding competition: technology solutions for society in India : 15 February 17 UK businesses can apply for a share of £1.6 million to work with Indian partners on innovative healthcare and technology solutions in India. For more details please visit here... For a full list of funding opportunities, please check out our monthly summary. Upcoming Events Make in India: 13-14 Feb 2017 Aero India : 14-17 Feb 2017 News from the web UK universities and IIT Delhi partner to tackle air pollution crisis  PM Modi visits UK Pavilion at Vibrant Gujarat UK-India Making Tomorrow's Medicines Together   PM Modi speech to the 104th Annual Science Congress, India SIN India Team News The SIN team is busy planning this years activities and events. We have lots of exciting things planned for this year.  So stay tuned for more and thanks for reading! Sarah, Murtaza, Swati, Rita, Sunil, Uma, Shivani Tamil and Arika   The UK Science & Innovation Team in India   Were you forwarded this email? Subscribe now to get next month's edition direct!

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