ANRF ANNOUNCES SELECTION OF 10 INSTITUTIONS FOR ESTABLISHING CONVERGENCE RESEARCH CENTRES OF EXCELLENCE (COES)

• Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) selected 10 institutions to host Convergence Research Centres of Excellence (CoEs) — flagship initiative fusing Social Sciences, Humanities, Science & Technology (SSH+S&T) for transdisciplinary problem-solving.
• Operationalises the multidisciplinary research mandate of NEP 2020 and feeds into the Viksit Bharat 2047 vision.
• Examinable as part of GS-III (S&T policy, R&D ecosystem) and GS-II (institutions, NEP).