Around 41 projects approved for funding under CRP during 2021-22.

ISLAMABAD -- A total of 770 concept proposals were received by the researchers and students under the Competitive Research Programme (CRP) of the Pakistan Science Foundation (PSF) during the year 2021-22.

According to an official source, these concept proposals were received under the two calls including Fourth Call and Smog Call by the PSF under CRP.

A total of 41 projects worth Rs. 259.65 million were approved for funding after the completion of 4 peer review and technical evaluation through different Execution Committees.

Out of these approved projects, first installment of 16 projects amounting Rs 75.832 million was released. An amount of Rs 11.7 million was released to 53 ongoing projects on account of due installments.

CRP projects are mostly of applied nature and result in the development of new products, technologies, processes or techniques. Some short-term projects resulted in the development of prototypes like an indigenous Ventilator machine, Diagnostic catheter and automatic Syringe Pump for Intravenous Infusion of COVID-19 Patients in ICU.

The CRP is the PSDP awarded to PSF to finance research projects under four streams including Individual Research, Consortium Research, Triple Helix Model and International Linkages.

The main objectives of CRP were the provision of research grants to address the mega national issues and promote world-class research and development (R and D) of the new processes, products, applications or technologies through native...