Objectives

• Higher Education Commission of Pakistan is offering a six month research fellowship abroad to full time PhD students enrolled in Pakistan to enhance their research capabilities. The objectives of the program are:
• To enhance the quality of doctoral research in Pakistan.
• To create a critical mass of highly qualified manpower that could contribute towards the development of Pakistan.
• To facilitate assimilation, absorption and transfer of important and promising scientific and technological knowledge information to achieve repaid economic progress.
• To provide opportunities to doctoral students for training/ research work at advanced research labs of reputed universities abroad and to interact with foreign scientist working at frontiers of knowledge.
• To explore avenues for further collaboration internationally.
• To introduce Pakistani talent globally.
• To disseminate information about research in Pakistan.
• To bring standard of doctoral research at par with international standards.