The ISTI Portal serves as a unified national platform for collating and disseminating content related to research, technology, and innovation generated within the Indian Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) ecosystem, particularly across six major scientific Departments and Ministry of Earth Sciences of the Government of India. The portal provides structured access to information on fellowships, scholarships, research funding, and startup opportunities for students, scientists, researchers, youth, and the wider public, thereby supporting informed participation in India’s STI ecosystem.
ISTI Portal focuses on bringing all stakeholders and Indian STI activities on a single online platform; helping efficient utilisation of resources; highlighting the functioning of scientific organisations, laboratories and institutions; aggregating information on science funding, fellowships & award opportunities spanning from school to faculty level; pooling together conferences and science events; and projecting science in India with its major achievements.
In addition, ISTI Portal provides insights and analytics of the information related to research, technologies, innovations, funding, etc. These analytics help funding agencies make informed decisions, formulate new schemes and programmes, and make decisions related to project funding. At the same time, researchers can study trends in research funding.