A total of 47 applications have been received for joint research projects and workshops to be carried out by Indian and Japanese researchers on the mutually agreed areas of i) Physical Sciences ii) Chemical Sciences iii) Life Sciences and Agriculture iv) Mathematics and Computational Science v) Astronomy and Earth Science vi)Materials and Engineering. The invite was done under the Indo-Japan Cooperative Science Programme (IJCSP)-2023, a Joint Call for Proposals was issued by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), Ministry of Science & Technology, Government of India and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS).