Internal Research Grant Scheme
Overview
Quest International University (QIU) aspires to be a model research-led private University through promotion and implementation of research, development and innovation in various fields. QIU is committed to investing in people and providing a favourable research environment to address both local and global issues as well as be a training ground for career development. As such, QIU has introduced an internal grant scheme to assist our researchers gain a competitive edge as well as develop a positive track record for securing external grants. The University hopes that with this scheme, it will foster quality interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research and attract high caliber staff, postgraduate students, external collaborations and strategic alliances.
OBJECTIVES
- To recognize individual researcher excellence at all career stages;
- To support and enable early career researchers to undertake ‘proof-of-concept’ projects aimed at enabling the researcher(s) to make strong bids for external funding;
- To help develop research collaborations with relevant industry partners as well as other external researchers from local as well as International Research Institutions and Universities;
- To provide seed funding for pre-commercialisation activities for students’ projects or other QIU supported projects;
- To support postgraduate research; and
- To provide research funding for projects that are strategically aligned with the University’s research priorities.