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VOLUME ZERO: LITTLE BIG LOO ARCHITECTURE COMPETITION (2ND EDITION)

Application Deadline: 30 October, 2025

LOCATION: India

The Little Big Loo—Rethinking Public Toilets invites ideas that can be used to disrupt the perception of public toilets with the most innovative and efficient solution for this serious issue plaguing our future. This necessary public utility is to be designed in a way that changes the overall outlook towards public washrooms.

The designed area can be recreational, educational, or social—a space that creates value for the community surrounding it. The space should be visualized as a prime component in the making of a community that develops holistically—a community that is competent in social, economic and educational terms.

ELIGIBILITY:

Little Big Loo 2025 Architecture Competition is an open ideas design competition with no intentions to execute the proposals submitted in any form. The competition is open to all, and students and professionals from all walks can join the competition.

The participants are only permitted to share their proposal for the competition on social media or any other platform once the winners are revealed officially. Volume Zero will also publish winners at this date and will be working with many design platforms to attract publication opportunities.

The participants are requested to submit their work in JPEG file format in 150 DPI resolution.

The file size should not exceed more than 5 MB.

The participants are requested to submit the files with their unique team code as their name.

The participants are free to use any one of the imperial or metric unit systems.

The 200-word limit for the submission is only limited to the project description. It would not include the text used as Legends or captions, layout dimensions or any other text apart from the project description.

Note: All the Deadlines are scheduled at 11:59 pm Indian Standard Time

BENEFIT:

Total Prize – USD 4500

TWAS-SN BOSE POSTGRADUATE FELLOWSHIP PROGRAMME

Application Deadline: 22 September 2025

LOCATION: India

TWAS and the S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences in Kolkata, India, offer fellowships to young foreign scientists from developing countries who wish to pursue research towards a PhD in physical sciences. Applicants are encouraged to apply for the preliminary acceptance letter as early as possible, even before the opening date of the call. Keep in mind that only Acceptance letters dated the same year as the year of application are eligible.

ELIGIBILITY:

Candidates for these fellowships must meet the following criteria:

be a maximum age of 35 years on 31 December of the application year;

be nationals of a developing country (other than India);

must not hold any visa for temporary or permanent residency in India or any developed country;

hold a Masters Degree in Physics, Chemistry, Biology or Mathematics. S/he must have completed at least a total 5 years of undergraduate and postgraduate studies in a recognized university or institute.

be accepted by a department of the S. N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences. Prospective applicants are advised to visit the Centre’s website www.bose.res.in and seek to find a potential supervisor under whom they would like to pursue their research and contact them.

Requests for acceptance must be directed to the Dean (Academic Programme), S. N. Bose National Centre for Sciences by e-mail (deanap@bose.res.in). In contacting the Dean (Academic Programme), applicants must fill out the “SNB FORM” (that can be downloaded below) and request for an Acceptance Letter with copy of their CV.

provide evidence of proficiency in English, if medium of education was not English;

provide evidence that s/he will return to her/his home country on completion of the fellowship;

not take up other assignments during the period of her/his fellowship;

be financially responsible for any accompanying family members.

Relevant deadlines to apply:

Deadline to apply for a Preliminary Acceptance Letter to SN Bose Center: 16 August 2025.

Last date of issuance of Preliminary Acceptance Letters by SN Bose Center:  31 August 2025.

Deadline to submit the application form and all required documents to TWAS via TWAS online portal: 22 September 2025 (midnight CEST time).

BENEFIT:

S.N. Bose National Centre for Basic Sciences will provide a monthly stipend to cover living costs and food. The monthly stipend will not be convertible into foreign currency. Free on-campus accommodation will be provided. The monthly stipend does not cover comprehensive health insurance. The center does, however, deduct a small contribution towards a Contributory Medical Scheme. The benefits are partial reimbursement of doctor’s fees and medicine costs, if any, and only for costs incurred at Kolkata. The reimbursement structure is at par with the Central Government Health Scheme (CGHS) of the Government of India.

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