The Hon’ble Vice-Chancellor has allocated budget to fund research projects to be undertaken by the faculty pursuing research in various areas. The aim of the scheme is to strengthen the research activity especially among the young faculty members which will act as a catalyst for them to apply to the various funding agencies for major grants.
The University of Pune launched an e-service Sanshodhan Online for students and teachers on July 20, called Sanshodhan Online to enable online filing of research proposals for the year 2008-09.
This e-service will also help to create updated electronic data on various research projects in progress and publications in international and national journals.
University of Pune has initiated many Innovative Academic Programmes in recent past. Since 2006, the UoP introduced the schema e to encourage college and varsity-level research projects by teachers and students. The university provides Rs 50,000 to Rs 3 lakh for each project, depending upon the proposal. Close to 5,000 teachers and students from the 50-odd UoP departments, 474 colleges and some 250 recognized institutions directly or indirectly benefit from the scheme.
Flow of A Research Proposal
- Principal Investigator submit proposal to Department
- Received hard copy of proposal will be scrutinized for proper subject verification.
- After that this proposal will be sent to respective subjects experts for review.
- Depending upon his review proposals will be short listed for sanction.
- Once Sanction process is complete result for same will be displayed online. Also individual email* notification and college letters will be sent.
*for email notification principle investigator need to have a valid email id which need to be registered with www.unipuneonline.in
- Once selection letter is received by Principal Investigator, he need to re-submit his financial details of project with revised amounts along with acceptance letter.
- Upon reception of acceptance letter department will issue first installment of sanctioned amount for first year
- The Principal Investigator need to submit annual progress report along with the statement of accounts and utilization certificate at the end of each financial year for the release of the subsequent grant.
- After completion of research project Principle Investigator need to submit final report of research work done.
