IGCC Kolkata participated in the “FAIR Industry Meet” held at Bose Institute, Kolkata from April 12-13, 2023. The goal of this meeting was to appraise the Indian industries about the opportunities and challenges for them in working with the International Mega Science projects where India is playing a crucial part in building the facilities.
Facility for antiproton and ion research (FAIR), founded on 4th October 2010, established at Darmstadt-Germany focuses on delivering beams for research in nuclear physics, hadron physics, high energy heavy ion collisions, atomic and plasma physics. Bose Institute Indo-FAIR Coordination Centre (BI-IFCC) is an extramural project at Bose Institute, Kolkata for facilitating the coordination of India’s participation in building the largest upcoming accelerator facility worldwide. India is a founder member and the third largest contributor in this upcoming international facility, with Bose Institute being the shareholding institute for the country. BI-IFCC is the nodal centre in India to facilitate Indian activities in FAIR at GSI, Germany.
Prof. (Dr.) Uday Bandyopadhyay, Director, Bose Institute inaugurated the event and Mr. Manfred Auster, the Hon. Consul-General, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, Kolkata was present as the Chief Guest.
The second day witnessed a panel discussion organized with several panelists including Sabina Pandey, Regional Director, Indo-German Chamber of Commerce (Eastern Region) where the focus was on the overall response of the Indian industries and on several issues where the industries required more detailed information and specific help regarding participation and winning global bids. Dr. David Urner emphasized on the importance of Indian companies who should be registered in the FAIR and European Union tender database to receive the information on the business opportunities on time. The Indo-German Chamber of Commerce promised to function as a bridge between the scientific community and the industries for this purpose.
Interested members of IGCC can find the published tenders by clicking on the following links:
Link to GSI/FAIR website with extract of recently published running tender
https://www.gsi.de/start/wirtschaft_industrie.htm
DTVP:
Link to all GSI & FAIR published tenders
https://www.dtvp.de/Center/company/announcements/categoryOverview
English Instructions on DTVP:
https://support.cosinex.de/unternehmen/display/company/E-Vergabe+-+English+Instructions
TED (ONLY EU call for tenders is published here as well):
https://ted.europa.eu/TED/browse/browseByMap.do
