Central University of Gujarat (CUG)

About Research & Development Cell

Research and Development Cell is essential for successful growth of an institution. The R&D Cell will promote, facilitate, and develop creative endeavours, research, and development at the Central University of Gujarat. It will foster the technological economic and social wellbeing of Central University of Gujarat, in collaboration with government as well as non-governmental and private sectors. The work R&D Cell has as under:

Develop, monitoring and review policies relating to the University’s research activities, including research and research training, internationalization and international reputation, and their management.
Guide, monitor, review and endorse the activities of its sub-committees (i.e., the Research advisory committee, the University Ethics Policy Committee etc.)
Encourage the development of the University’s the University’s strategic research priorities and objectives and monitor research performance within the framework of the University’s planning process.
Revie, on a triennial basis, submission for formation and or continuation of University Research Strengths and advice on finding allocations to, and the status of, all RDC funded research groups.
Affirm policies for sponsored research and consultancies.
Safeguard the intellectual property of the university and its faculty.
Provide leadership and advice on mechanisms to improve monitoring, benchmarking, and reporting of the University’s research performance.
Hold one to two events annually to facilitate the exchange and dissemination of information concerning research training issues for the broader research community.
Inform and advice the Academic community on research and research training matters as and when they arise
Process all the matters related to research projects in the university in the prescribed channel.

Vision and Mission

To care a conductive environment for promotion of Research and innovation activities in the university.
To encourage faculty members to apply for major, minor research projects
To ensure smooth functioning and effective management of innovation research and development activities of the university.
To promote collaborative research.
To strengthen industry- institute interaction by promoting consultancy, testing and need based research & innovation activities in the university.
To identify the potential areas of research in various disciplines and form the faculty into various clusters based on their specialization.
To prepare and submit proposals to government agencies for obtaining funded projects.
To encourage multi- disciplinary research internally within the university and externally with other organization.
Encourage the staff to attend/ publish papers in various National/ International conferences of their specialized areas.
To coordinate the research activities among the various departments and to address potential conflicts.
Encourage the faculty to attend various research-oriented Faculty development programmes.
To encourage the staff to publish their research works in reputed journals that have good impact factor and are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science (WOS).
Scrutinize the student's project proposals and send them to various agencies for financial support and recommend the suitable projects to encourage the staff to attend/publish papers in various National/International conferences of their specialized areas.
To coordinate the research activities among the various department and to address potential conflicts.
Encourage the faculty to attend various research-oriented faculty development programmes
To encourage the staff to publish their research works in reputed journals that have good impact factor and are indexed in Scopus and Web of Science (WOS).
Scrutinize the student’s project proposal and send them to various agencies for financial support and recommend the suitable projects.