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UP Diliman

ON THE CONDUCT OF RESEARCH AND CREATIVE WORK
Rationalizing the Underlying Administrative
Framework of Research and Creative Work

The OVCRD recognizes that a good
administrative framework is crucial to the
growth of UP Diliman’s research and creative
work programs. As such, it is constantly
finding ways and means to improve and
strengthen the administrative policies and
guidelines governing research and creative
work in the campus. For the period
May 2011–April 2014, there were four major
improvements that the OVCRD put in place.
First, to streamline the grant application
process, the Office launched a wider and
synchronized call for proposals for the
different OVCRD project grants and the UP
System’s Creative Work and Research Grant.

Third, a new online Management Information
System (MIS) for all OVCRD-funded research
grants was installed, to have a more efficient
way of monitoring the various programs and
projects that receive funding from the OVCRD.
The features of the MIS include online
submission of project proposals, tracking the
status of proposals submitted, notification of