How the chair is tied to the Academy
The Springer-Nature Chair is tied to the Academy's journal publishing agreement with Springer-Nature.
Endowment Chair
Chair Professorship
The Chair Professorship material in the activity report records the Springer-Nature Chair as an endowment-linked programme that brings an eminent scientist to India for lectures and scientific interactions.
Springer-Nature Chair
What the chair does
The program features an eminent scientist who visits India as the Springer-Nature Chair and delivers lectures and holds interactions with scientists in scientific institutions across India related to their area of expertise.
Programme Shape
Chair appointment
An eminent scientist is hosted as the Springer-Nature Chair.
Lectures
The visitor delivers lectures in scientific institutions across India.
Interactions
The visit includes interactions with scientists related to the Chair's area of expertise.
Context in tAcT's Objectives
Trust objective
The activity report states that tAcT focuses on capacity building, promoting outreach activities where intervention is urgently needed, fostering innovation and excellence in Science and Technology, collaborating with other organizations for joint programmes, improving research and education in science and engineering, and setting up science education chair/professorships.
Three documented modes of work
The report lists Science Education Outreach, Academia-Industry Partnership, and Endowment Chair Professorship as the ways through which the Trust fulfils these objectives.
Source Note
This page uses the Endowment Chair, Springer-Nature Chair, and trust-objective material from the tAcT Activity Report April 2022-March 2025. The report does not list a separate year-wise Chair activity table in the same way it does for the Industry Internship Programme.