Mission

The mission of the Academy is to create highest quality personnel with cross- disciplinary knowledge, aiming to provide leaders in the field of science and technology.

• Nurture a research-propelled, technology-enabled, industry-linked, socially conscious higher education platform
• Achieve a seamless integration of intellectual strengths with current market needs with a people centric focus.
• Develop niche capability required to bolster research efforts in futuristic science.
• Provide the opportunity to work on the frontier and contemporaneously challenging areas for nurturing innovation.

Objectives

• Disseminate advanced knowledge in science and technology, by providing teaching and research facilities in emerging and futuristic areas of inter-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary areas—whether the focus is natural sciences, life sciences, mathematical and computational sciences, medical sciences, engineering, applied art, humanities, social sciences, law relating to these areas
• Adopt measures for innovations in teaching and learning processes
• Create an ambience for learning and scholarship in advanced science and technology instead of exclusively focusing on marks or grades
• Educate and train manpower in scientific and technological fields; science 2.0 e-enabled cloud environment
• Establish linkages with industries in India and outside India for the promotion of science and technology
• Collaborate, in appropriate areas in the field of science and technology, with reputed universities and institutions in India and outside India
• Promote research in science and technology having a bearing on social, economic, cultural, and intellectual, welfare of the people
• Organize and undertake extramural studies, training and extension services

Office Memorandum No. AcSIR/8/1(1)-2017-Acad. dated 13.11.2017 on the following subjects for kind reference and information please:

• Constitution of Academic Committee at all CSIR Laboratories/other program Centres/Affiliates participating in AcSIR programs for maintenance of academic standards;
• Extension of tenure of PhD students for completion of thesis beyond prescribed period;
• Guidelines on maximum period of extension for thesis submission after Open Colloquium;
• Procedure for change of Faculty/School of Study;
• Procedure for issue of the final degree/diploma/certificate; and
• Procedure for transfer of AcSIR student from one CSIR Lab to another CSIR Lab