ARTPARK Student Innovation Grant Program in Artificial

Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems

Call for Proposal, May 2021

ARTPARK (AI & Robotics Technology Park) @ IISc is pleased to invite highly motivated and talented faculty members,
along with their undergraduate and post-graduate students, to apply for innovation grants in the areas of Artificial
Intelligence, Robotics and Autonomous Systems. The objective of this program is to expose talented students to
opportunities in the upcoming domain of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, providing high-
level guidance, promoting innovation, and facilitating skills training leading to application development and
prototype building. The program provides grants (including stipends for students) to support final-year projects (in
the case of undergraduates) and master’s thesis (in the case of post-graduates).

Eligibility criteria
Faculty members of any engineering department of an academic institution recognized by AICTE/UGC are eligible to
apply for project funding. The UG students that the faculty member proposes to include in the project must have
completed at least six semesters of their program. For project proposals involving PG students, the students must
have completed at least two semesters of their curriculum. A final-year undergraduate project can have a maximum
of four students, and a postgraduate project is meant to support one master’s student.

Duration and Nature of grant

The projects under the grant are expected to last for one year (August 2021 – July 2022). The grants include stipends
for students for undergraduate final-year projects and to PG students for master’s thesis.
 Funding support – Up to Rs. 1.8 lakhs (for purchase of hardware/software/equipment, project related travel,
incidentals, etc.)
 Monthly stipend – Rs. 10,000/month (for each UG student) and Rs 15,000/month (for each PG student) for
the entire project period.

Submission and Selection of proposals

Interested faculty members may apply by submitting an online “Expression of interest” form using the link below.
Link: https://forms.gle/sG6jFJU1rKcFjuxU6

Once this is done, the instructions for proposal submission will be mailed to the respective faculty member. Selection of
project proposals will be done by ARTPARK’s technical committee.

Prizes for best two projects in each category (UG and PG)
The ARTPARK student innovation grant program envisages awarding prizes to the most innovative projects. The top
two projects in each category (UG and PG), will be selected for cash prizes at the end of the year. The prize amounts
will be as follows:
 First prize: Rs. 1 lakh
 Second prize: Rs. 50,000
Apart from the cash prizes, the winning students will also have access to the ARTPARK Spark Innovation Program as
well as a one-year paid internship at ARTPARK, which will provide them an excellent opportunity to work further on
the innovative ideas developed during the project.

Important dates
Submission of “Expression of interest” July 12, 2021
Project submission August 1, 2021
Announcement of selected project proposals August 15, 2021
Final report due July 15, 2022
Announcement of most innovative projects (UG & PG) July 30, 2022

ARTPARK is a not-for-profit foundation set up at the Robert Bosch Centre for Cyber-Physical Systems @ Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. More information is at
https://artpark.in. The organizers of the program reserve the right to continue to fine-tune the rules and regulations of the program, until the final date of the
competition, based on feedback from the robotics community, participants, and the ARTPARK Technical Advisory Committee.