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Eligibility requirements
All Regular and Associate Members of the NRCP are eligible to submit research proposals for funding under the Council's Grants-in-Aid (GIA) program. The program supports frontier and problem-oriented research in the sciences and humanities that contribute to national development.
Criteria for Funding
- 01Criterion 1
The proposal is not a duplicate of any past or on-going research (local or international); no on-going project at NRCP will be considered for NRCP-GIA funding.
- 02Criterion 2
The proposal is aligned with the identified priority areas or programs of the NRCP and DOST, and complements existing projects under the relevant program-based scheme.
- 03Criterion 3
All proposals are reviewed by designated NRCP member-evaluators under the relevant Scientific Divisions. In the final stage of evaluation, proposals are presented before the NRCP Governing Board prior to approval or endorsement to DOST.
- 04Criterion 4
The researcher must be cleared of all technical and financial obligations from any prior NRCP or DOST-funded project before a new grant will be considered.
Application Forms
Download the appropriate proposal form: