Each year since 1951, Nobel Prize winners in Chemistry, Physics, Physiology or Medicine have been meeting in Lindau, Germany, to discuss major issues of importance to their fields with students from around the world. The meetings include lectures, panel/ round-table discussions on interdisciplinary topics and informal small- group meetings with the Nobel Prize winners. The DST has been sending a group of students / young researchers to these meetings since 2001. It is intended to send a group of Indian Students /young researchers to the 75th Meeting of Nobel Laureates & Students during 28th June to 3rd July 2026, which is dedicated to Interdisciplinary Sciences [Students/ Young researchers involved in studying/ doing research at the intersection of at least two Nobel disciplines (physics, chemistry, and physiology or medicine) or at the intersection of one Nobel discipline and another discipline from the social or natural sciences]. Applications are invited from bright and young students and researchers in the above disciplines for availing this award. The lectures and discussions are at a level appropriate for students/researchers in their early research careers.
i) Only Indian science students (by citizenship) studying / working / affiliated to research Institutes / universities in India are eligible. ii) Engineering / Tech. students are not eligible. iii) Indian students studying and doing post-doc / internship / or staying in Germany / abroad are also not eligible for this award.