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I-STEM LabLink: Call for Institutional Participation
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Making scientific infrastructure more visible, discoverable, and connected.

Across India's institutions, significant scientific infrastructure exists in relative obscurity, unknown beyond campus boundaries, underused, and disconnected from the researchers and innovators who could benefit from it.

LabLink invites institutions to join a national visibility initiative designed to improve awareness, discoverability, and utilization of scientific equipment and laboratory facilities, connecting your infrastructure with a much wider community of potential users.


Institutions interested in participating in LabLink can fill out the application form below:

Join the LabLink Network

Submission of this application does not guarantee selection. The I-STEM team will review all submissions and reach out only if the application is shortlisted for further consideration.

About LabLink

LabLink is an infrastructure visibility and discoverability initiative. Through integrated physical and digital visibility mechanisms linked to the I-STEM ecosystem, it helps institutions showcase their research facilities to a national audience spanning academia, research, startups, industry, and government.

The goal is simple: reduce the gap between scientific infrastructure and the people who need it.

Why Participate?

LabLink enables institutions to:

  • Increase the visibility of your scientific facilities beyond campus boundaries
  • Expand awareness of available equipment, labs, and services
  • Improve discoverability among potential users in academia, research, industry, and government
  • Strengthen institutional outreach and engagement with the wider research community
  • Support greater utilisation of research infrastructure
  • Enhance the impact of publicly funded scientific assets

Visibility Pathways

Participating institutions may be supported through:

  • Equipment listed and searchable on the I-STEM portal for discovery and booking
  • Custom-designed digital posters shared across I-STEM's official social media handles and available for institutions to share on their own channels
  • QR-enabled physical hoarding creatives, designed by I-STEM, that institutions can print and put up on or around campus to drive awareness
  • Integration with I-STEM's broader outreach and engagement programmes

What Participation Typically Includes

Participating institutions:

  • Identify facilities and equipment for inclusion
  • Maintain up-to-date and accurate facility information
  • Collaborate with I-STEM on discoverability and user engagement initiatives

Participation Note

  • Participation is entirely voluntary
  • Institutions retain full ownership and operational control of all facilities
  • I-STEM supports visibility and discoverability, not access policy
  • Participation does not alter institutional policies or access frameworks

The Indian Science, Technology, and Engineering facilities Map (I-STEM) is an interactive web portal designed to accelerate scientific progress in India. This initiative, conceived and supported by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India, creates a centralized platform for sharing publicly funded R&D equipment and facilities across various institutions throughout the country.

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