HEC Invites Applications For Research Proposals Under National Research Programme For Universities

Higher education commission of Pakistan has invited the applications for research proposals under national research programme for universities (NRPU). The candidates are notified to check the requirements and then submit the application form. The faculty member of public and private educational institutes can apply in this program after fulfilling the mentioned requirements. HEC will select the competitive candidates on the basis of merit and transparent evaluation and selection process. NRPU is basically is a research programme of higher education commission that provides the research grants to the scientific promising projects. The amount of the funding will range up to 20 million and the duration of project is three years.

Eligibility Criteria

Following is the eligibility criteria required to apply for the submission of research proposals under national research programme for universities.

• The principal investigator must be faculty member of working on regular on contract basis in the public and private higher education institutions of Pakistan.
• The principal investigator can hold only one NRPU grant at a time.

Submission Procedure

To apply for NRPU program the candidates are notified to carefully fill and submit the application form as the incomplete and the late submitted applications will not be accepted by the higher education commission.

• Applicants are required to submit the application form with the required documents
• The application form must be submitted through the online web portal of HEC
• The attested documents should be submitted by the principal investigator to the respective head of research at the respective HEIs.

Last Date To Apply

• The deadline for the application submission is 30^th April 2021. So the candidates are informed to apply before the last date to avoid any inconvenience.